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Weirdest moments on the road

If you drive more than 30,000 miles in a year, you're going to run into some odd moments. Here are some of the top odd moments from the Drive for Innovation, in no particular order: 1. The helmet incident: Maybe it was the spirit of the holidays, but at a Maryland steakhouse, we met a wonderful waitress who had a

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Dream engineering job?

ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.–As an engineer, Jay O’Connell (you might say) has a dream job. As chief technical director for the Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW racing team, he puts his Cornell engineering degree to use making cars go really fast (and last) around race tracks in competitions that last four hours. His five-man engineering team works almost like any other engineering team, only

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Marching ants

ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.–You’ve probably seen some of our earlier posts and video segments from here and especially from our time with Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW Racing Team Technical Director Jay O’Connell. We got a tour of the track from Mike Welsh and then spent time with O’Connell. He gave us insight into how the team keeps its amazing edge even as the

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Selling innovation

(Odometer: 3,695 miles) ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.–There are few industries in the world that are as savvy about marketing their highly technical products than the auto industry. Just go to any road or track race and you’ll see. We did. We spent Friday and Saturday with the excellent folks at Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW racing at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisc. Avnet,

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