LIKE OUT-OF-CONTROL nascar machines, they’ll fly off the asphalt and pirouette into the sky—except it’ll be intentional. At full speed, they’ll leave Indy cars in the dust. Like Formula 1 racers, they’ll battle for the checkered flag on tracks kinked like your lower intestines. Although the tracks will be in 3-D. And invisible.
Welcome to the Rocket Racing League (www.rocketracingleague.com), the brainchild of X Prize founder Peter Diamandis. If Diamandis and league co-founder Granger Whitelaw—a venture capitalist and two-time Indy 500-winning team partner—succeed in bringing their vision to life, in 2007 we’ll be watching futuristic, rocket-powered "X-Racers" duking it out in the skies like Alonso and Raikkonen after drinking way too much Tang.
Diamandis isn’t some starry-eyed dreamer in a "Yoda Rules"T-shirt. His resume includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in aerospace engineering…
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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2006