Stock car drivers and hot rod racers mix it up on the bobsled track

摘要

NASCAR and NHRA drivers will square off against one another in a race that has it all - speed, danger, technique, high-performance machines, and merciless punishment for mistakes - in the Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge. The event raises funds to advance bobsled technology, and to provide U.S. Olympic athletes with the best possible American-made equipment. Geoff Bodine, winner of the 1986 Daytona 500, started the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project in 1992 to apply NASCAR technology to bobsled design. The teams had been competing with used European sleds, and had not won an Olympic medal since 1956. Since 1994 the teams have been racing sleds designed and built by NASCAR builder, Chassis Dynamics, with support from Whelen Engineering. The long medal drought was broken in 2002 when the teams brought home 3 medals - silver and bronze for the men and gold for the women.