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Gone Postal & Roderick in the News
Washington Post, Southern Maryland Extra, June 17, 2004
- Energizing Experience at Great Mills - By Susan Kinzie -
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Roderick Wilde, one of the forerunners of electric drag racing who started more than 11 years ago, said it makes political sense to reduce reliance on foreign oil. "Whoever has the energy has all the power," he said.
He's made electric racing an in-your-face, no-limits sport -- he calls it
"sucking amps," and his juiced-up Mazda can go from 0 to 100 mph in seven
seconds.
"I've never been killed, not even once," he said, but he has been scared a
time or two. Those times include watching metal melting and sparks flying as
the engine blew up from the intense voltage, or when a car started with such
a burst of power that he thought it would flip over backwards.
He's addicted to that fast start characteristic of electric race cars. It
is something that a gasoline engine can't give.
"The launch on these things is just so incredible," he said. "It feels so
good, the G-force -- the same thing you get when you get on rides at the
fair, that thrill."
As racers like Wilde push the limits, technology eventually will follow, in
more sensible, marketable forms, he said.
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