Chevrotlet Out of the 24 Hours of LeMans?

Autosport magazine reports that Chevrolet is pulling out of LeMans for 2009. Chevrolet was to compete with it's GT-1 Corvettes for Sebring and Long Beach in the ALMS series to prepare for the 24 Hours of LeMans as the final race for the GT-1s then begin racing the new GT-2 Corvettes in the second half of the ALMS season. Chevrolet is denying that report at this time.

If this report turns out to be true, it will be the first major project to fall due to the American automobile manufacturer crisis. Unfortunately, I think programs like Corvette will be the first to fall rather than NASCAR programs. This is unfortunate, as the Corvette program is more germane to road cars than NASCAR is. Technology from the programs like the Corvettes can be applied to road cars because the race cars are road car based.

Let's hope that Autosport's report is false.

Mac McCormick
kf4lmt@comcast.net

Uproar Over Rick Warren

Splashed across the news yesterday was the story that the gay and lesbian community is upset that Obama has given a prime speaking slot in the Inauguration ceremony to Rick Warren. They believe that he should be removed from the slot because he is opposed to gay and lesbian marriage. Surely they could find someone else to be upset at than Warren. He is one of the more moderate evangelists I can think of; it is not like Obama chose someone like Dobson.

One of the problems we have now are things just like this: an unwillingness to compromise on anything. If we disagree with someone's stance on an issue we try to exclude them from anything we are involved in. I congratulate Obama for so far being inclusive in who he has chosen to speak in his inauguration ceremony and who he has selected for his cabinet.

Mac McCormick
kf4lmt@comcast.net