Talk About A Speeding Bullet!

Did you know that a rocket could propel a bullet?  Imagine yourself being only one of less than five-dozen people in the world who have been officially recognized to have driven over 300 MPH.  How thrilling would that be?  Just ask Roger (The Rocket) Schroer the next time you see him!  Roger is, of course, a TRC Inc. employee whom you know if you have participated in one of the performance driver training classes he developed for our customers.    

On loan to The Ohio State University’s 2004 Buckeye Bullet Electric Land Speed Racing Team, Roger is the only non-student on the undergraduate team that built the electric racecar.  The Bullet, an enclosed-wheel streamliner, was built by a student project of The Ohio State University's Center for Automotive Research.  The Bullet set the U.S. Electric Land Speed Record (USELSR) for electric-powered vehicles at 256.894 MPH in October 2003.  Equipped with a new electric power plant in its qualifying runs in August 2004, the Bullet shattered that number with an exit speed of 314.925 MPH!   The USELSR qualifying speed of 308.317 MPH was attained for the Bullet’s peak timed fifth mile as certified by the Southern California Timing Association at the Bonneville Nationals Inc. A return trip to Bonneville is planned by the team in mid-October. You can follow the action at www.buckeyebullet.com, using a link at that site named “roadtoBonneville”.

Led by student Isaac Harper, the Bullet is one of a number of ongoing student motorsports research projects at Ohio State.  You can find out more about the Bullet at www.BuckeyeBullet.com     

Reprinted here by permission from TRC Inc.

Thank you, TRC Inc.!!  Go Bucks!!