Thursday, July 17, 2008

Rockets To Race Over Wisconsin Skies

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 17, @03:43PM
from the nitro-burnin'-funny-ships dept.
Iron Condor writes with a reminder that that the first race of the Rocket Racing League (last mentioned here in April, after its 2005 founding) is set to take place later this month at Oshkosh AirVenture 08. This race, says Iron Condor, "is exactly what it sounds like: NASCAR 1000m above ground in rocket-propelled airplanes. Created by X-prize founder/CEO Peter Diamandis, this is 'the next evolution of racing' (at least according to the promo video, which is definitely worth watching)..."

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