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Electric Falcon wins championship BOWLING GREEN, O. — Bowling Green State University’s Electric Falcon race car has ended the 2003 “Formula Lightning” season
by winning the EMCWA Formula Lightning Electric Car Championship at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.
The Electric Falcon, which had the pole position after driver Larry Crosser posted the fastest lap in the Oct.4 qualifying
heat, defeated runner-up Ohio University in the 12-lap, 27.3-mile race. A car from Indiana University/Purdue University at
Indianapolis led the BGSU car after the first lap but finished third, ahead of fourth-place West Virginia University.
Crosser, who has driven the Electric Falcon for nine years, recorded an average lap speed of just under 74 miles per hour.
The car went into the pits for fresh batteries at the end of the fourth lap but regained the lead in lap five and held it
to take the checkered flag. “
The team looked good and performed well both on and off the track,” said Dr. Anthony Palumbo, faculty adviser to the Electric
Falcon MotorSports team and chief of operations of BGSU’s Electric Vehicle Institute. The pit crew “pulled off two great pit
stops to insure that Larry Crosser was in and out, adding only 32 seconds to the lap time,” he said. “
This academic sport truly demonstrates technology problem-solving at the highest level,” added Dr. Ernest Savage, dean of
the BGSU College of Technology. Echoing Palumbo, he praised the team effort and Crosser’s driving skills, as well as “super
energy management and applied new technology developed by our students and faculty.”
The event, which took place on Oct. 5, was sponsored by the Electrical Manufacturing & Coil Winding Association (EMCWA) and
sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America.
(Posted October 14, 2003 )
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