Motorsport at Cape Canaveral
A presentation entitled Racing & Space Enterprise: Sharing Technology to Improve Our Efficiency will be made at the USA's eighth Cape Canaveral Spaceport Symposium tomorrow (June 16) by NASCAR engineer and team owner Ashton Lewis. He will focus on similarities between motorsport and space industry technology in fuels, composite materials, metal alloys and tyres. The event is being held today and tomorrow at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
A NASCAR driver who has also served as an engineer with Hendrick Motorsports and Akins Motorsports, before forming his Lewis Motorsports team, Lewis will also cover public and operations safety, risk management, maintenance logistics and PR. Prior to the 2002 Busch Series season, Lewis Motorsports signed the US Civil Air Patrol as its primary sponsor.
"The similarities between these two very different industries is quite significant," said symposium chairman Rick Blucker, the chief of Plans & Programs for the 45th Space Wing. "In the past, the space industry has worked with the racing industry on various technology issues including tyres and risk management. We can learn from their expertise."
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