In Calgary!
One last post before we finish. We are currently in Calgary driving downtown with traffic. 5 miles out!
Go Fast, Go Smooth, Go BLUE!
Posted by Jeff Ferman at 2:57 PM | Permalink |
57 comments
57 Comments:
finish fast and smooth... I wish I was there to cheer you on in person!
YES!!!
Same here!
Everybody get your camera's ready!!
IT'S GREAT TO BE A MICHIGAN WOLVERINE!
GO BLUE!
If you sign "Hail to the Victors" slowly, for some reason, its more emotional!
sing that is....
I'm all verclempt and can't type!
Just one more left turn!
Almost there guys! Finish it in style!
Was anyone else leaning his/her head and body when it seemed like the left onto Charleswood wasn't happening? :)
Rainey
Wah! What happened to the GPS map!!! NOOOoooo
This is so exciting! I am at work, trying to work, but I can't.
I with I could be there with you guys!
Go Blue!
(I love that I know exactly who posted "it's great to be a Michigan Wolverine")
Aaagh they broke the GPS! Curse, you, lolcat!
anything????
AHHHHH! Somebody from race crew better call us - TC, it's phone tree time...
im in ur kar. i 8 ur gps.
Meybe they got out to run with the car?
anyone else cursing at their computer?????
Of all the times for the GPS to stop working, why now?
Does the GPD stop working if they turn the car off? Like for instance, when they cross the finish line?
Somebody say the words.
I think pretty much everybody... Stinking technology, we get so used to it, then it goes out! But think about how it was back in 1990, we are still lucky!
Let them enjoy their moment "in the sun." Its time to be away from computers for a moment and live in "real time." We all know they're high-fiveing right now. Its a moment of a lifetime.
GPS. C'mon, I can type 100 words a minute. Are my fingers not working right? Wonder why?
Congratulations!!! Go Blue! Enjoy the celebration!
i vote we panic
I've never refreshed a page this much in my life. GO BLUE!!!
Or we could assume the best possible outcome and start celebrating already!!
Well, Jeff R., I'm still on Charleswood Dr. NW. Jeff R's Mom
Whew.........!!!
Hugs for EVERYONE!! and please do not forget a hug and a pat or two for CONTINUUM.....bless her heart and cells!!! What a TEAM!!!!
(another anonymous)
someone call someone already!!!
It's Great! To Be! A Michigan Wolverine!
Go Blue!
Finally reached your destiny.
Are they there yet? :-p
Tried Ferman and Chito, noone's picking up, probably jumping around.
Yeah, team, good work! Go Blue!
-Rbt
I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be on this site at work but this is too awesome. Way to go team!
Go Blue!!!
-cj
They're there, they won!!!! Just talked to Steve.
Congrats everyone! Go Blue! It's about time everyone else knew how good you were. We knew it all along.
reloading and switching between pages is giving me a stroke...
WOOT!
Okay back to work.
In Wednesday's business section: A large number of UofM alumni were fired for unauthorized internet usage at work.
They all said, "It was worth it."
Congratulations! Continuum is one hell of a car.
Congratulations to the entire Michigan team!!!
You make us proud, finish strong, fast and smooth...in True Blue fashion...the Leaders and the Best! Wish we could be there cheering in person!
what? back to work??? i think WE all can sit back and BASK in the glory of victory for a time
AWESOME! Contratulations team, you make us all so proud!
Thanks for the update! Congratulations, Continuum and all the previous teams!
Thank you for a great rayce and a wonderful contribution to UM's tradition!
Rainey
Since Ford is a major sponsor, I view this as legitimate use of company resources! Go Blue! The winged helmet never looked so good!
The Leaders and Best! Never more true than today. Congratulations to everyone involved!
Congratulations team!! Please post some pictures soon.
I think I have to go for a walk or something to calm down so I can get back to work...
You can take time to sing a few verses.
Great car and a great team, congratulations. Go Blue!
It was just shy of three years ago that this car was just becoming a thought in anyone's mind. To see it come from that, through all the strange luck, rough times, and disappointment, through all the first times and successes, to this day is absolutely amazing. I am a ridiculously proud parent of a ridiculously fast, full figured solar car. Go Blue, and long live Continuum.
Garrick, three years ago, they were thinking of a different car, the Continuum that was never built. Wasn't it two years ago, they scrapped that design and started over because of the rule changes?
Oh, and I guess Doug's back in the will.
Yeah, but I managed to save a fair amount from the first one. The wheel layout and rear fairings are more or less identical. So it was still this car we were designing, we just didn't know it yet. That's just one more part of the long and odd journey this car's been on, and all the more reason to be proud of it.
TC-
3 years ago was when the team was getting together and overall project was getting started. But you're right in that 2 years ago, the car needed some major overhaul to fit WSC's new regs.
cj
Garrick has a point, too, though. I remember Doug talking about switching the three wheels around to have one in front, right after WSC '05. And they started working almost immediately on a "mule" car to test the stability of that design. They had to satisfy themselves it wouldn't roll over on hard turns.
Momentum wasn't even on the boat yet back to the US yet when the ME Team was designing 1 wheel front configurations on Adelaide pub napkins and thinking up car names. Those guys don't know how to take a vacation. Hopefully Doug will get some rest (and a shower) now.
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