On Monday, starting at 1 45 P.M., there will be preliminary races leading up to a two-hour race of the International Motor Sports Association's GTO and GTU cars.
Months, even years, before construction begins on the boats, teams of naval architects, designers, computer scientists, model builders and engineers engage in a technological competition to create machines that can complete a two-hour race a few minutes or seconds ahead of rivals.
It's hard to describe what it's like to drive a two-hour race in those conditions, but try thinking of what it would be like sitting in a sauna wearing a full fireproof race suit and helmet.
But because that system's device is comparatively heavy and noisy, the general assumption now is that cyclists turn to Stefano Varjas, a Hungarian who demonstrated his products to Stade 2. In an interview on Monday, Varjas said that his crank-assist devices could produce more than 250 watts, the amount of power a professional rider might typically average during a four-hour race.
A four-hour race, including red flags and safety cars.
On Saturday, he will move into a sports car, a Ford Mustang, and team with Lyn St. James in the Camel Continental, a three-hour race over the 3.37-mile 3.37-milese at Watkins Glen, N.Y.
A long, long lap, a nearly two-hour race, bumps, 23 corners and intense humidity make it arguably the toughest grand prix on the calendar - only Malaysia comes close.
Last fall, James traveled forty miles up the river to Ossining, in Westchester County, to teach a two-hour, fourteen-week course called Race, Trauma, and Oppression at the maximum-security Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
Peace is in danger of breaking out in horse racing, following a two-hour meeting in London between trainers and the ruling body that helped to clear the air after months of tension.
The race will be part of a two-hour NBC broadcast that starts at 4 pm, and beginning at 1 pm, Fox Sports 2 and MSG+ will air a three-hour program.
But with Kenya's marathon men smashing records left and right, the question becomes — could a sub-two hour race be close in sight?
