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Paul Haney “Motor racing offers the boldest technical and athletic challenges of our time. It is a thoroughly modern human invention, a combination of athletics, science, and business, driven by enthusiastic fans, adolescent male energy, and corporate funding. Racers have an amazing faith that a budget, people, a driver, cars, engines, and a schedule of race events justify a lifestyle that demands endless air travel, and total, lifetime personal commitment 24/7. Racers believe that on-track test sessions inevitably result in meaningful information, suggesting hardware and software changes that lead to performance gains, and that through track-test data analysis, a tire model, sims, driver feedback, a wind tunnel program, “chemistry, the “right package,” and more time on the 7-post rig we might explain those changes, and discover new changes to test again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain hoping the world will somehow become clearer, lap times quicker, and we will finally grasp the strange truth of the tires. And the universe will prove to be cheerfully connected, and races will be won, if the pit-stop strategy works”-Paul Haney, Sept. 2002 with apologies to Edward 0. Wilson.
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