Aside from a cultural disconnect from conventional racing, electric racers face some technical hurdles.
A straight reversal of the conventional racing layout, it is consistent with the Japanese company's policy of using Le Mans to explore new possibilities.
If an asterisk accompanies his career, it is because Gebrselassie's best marathon times came in a kind of laboratory setting, virtual time trials instead of conventional races, carried along by pacesetters on flat courses in Berlin and in Dubai.
Conventional racing wisdom has it that speed, rather than an abundance of stamina, is the most important attribute in a potential King George VI Chase winner, hence the proliferation of specialists over shorter distances than three miles lining up at Kempton on Boxing Day.
For all of its front-end sheen and easy to navigate menus, it's sort of gritty, running just off the conventional racing line, where the scraps of rubber have accumulated.
Ms. Hayes, who has undergraduate and graduate degrees in writing, sustainable agriculture and community development, had written, "We are the overeducated overachievers, sidestepping the conventional rat race for an alternative maelstrom".
Like George Bush before him, Barack Obama is stoking an unpredictable conventional arms race in a region that is already primed to explode.
The two countries do indeed share a strategic interest in containing India, and China appears to do little to discourage Pakistan's expensive nuclear and conventional arms race with New Delhi.
As in a more conventional motor race, the logos of their sponsors companies such as Google, Intel and Red Bull cover almost every centimetre of their vehicles, reflecting millions of dollars in investments.However, this is not a game that only the well-heeled can play.
