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Gentlemen Start Your Engines……..Let’s Go Racing
Hans and crew @ the 24 Hours of Daytona 2014……….
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Congratulations to the 2014 U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team
This is an awesome group of individuals and athletes that have been chosen to represent the U.S. in Sochi. Congratulations to you all!
Full article: http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-Skeleton-Federation/Features/2014/January/19/2014-US-Olympic-Bobsled-Team-announced
Silver for the Night Train 2 !!!
Congratulations to the 4-Man Crew of the Night Train 2 – Way to get it done!!!
Congratulations to our Awesome Friends
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-Skeleton-Federation/Features/2014/January/18/2014-US-Olympic-Skeleton-Team-announced#
http://www.teamusa.org/~/media/USA_Bobsled_Skeleton/Images/2013-2014%20season/Olympicskeletonteam600.jpg
Go get them guys you are such Awesome Athletes Thank You for Representing Our Country!!!!!!!!!!!!
USA Rockin it out in Austria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USA back on top awesome job guys Good luck today backing it up in 4man later today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One Great Video we are so Proud to have Partnered with BMW
An awesome video showing debotech’s handy work GO USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/driving-ice
deBotech Partners with BMW North America for Sochi 2014
Check out the video on some background for our new sleds…… Awesome Job!
2014 BMW Team USA Bobsled:
US Mens and Womens Bobsled on the Road to Sochi
Good luck to all my Buddies getting ready to tear down the hill in Austria this weekend. Go get them and hope you nail another 123 finish. We are all rooting for your success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USA Mens’s Skeleton in line for great results in SOCHI 2014
Great to see our USA Men on target for greatness in Sochi 2014 So proud to have these guys as friends and to see all the hard work they put in to represent our great country. John, Matt, and Kyle you guys rock, Keep it up boys Go USA
USA Women Still Going Strong in World Cup
So awesome seeing the success of our teams in the Olympic World Cup. Please reach out and follow these athletes. They give so much and work tremendously hard to represent our great country. Great run Noelle and awesome to see our girl Katie U back on tour after her injury. We are pulling for you guys. GO USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://teampikuspace.blogspot.com/2014/01/st-moritz-victory-and-golden-farewell.html?spref=fb
USA Power House in Lake Placid
Awesome showing in Lake Placid The teams really turned it on. So proud to be a part and be able to call them friends. It is a great feeling to help the USA Teams win Gold Medals and the added bonus of them being your friends makes it oh so special. Everyone is gearing up for the second half of the season overseas hope we are able to continue the great results on foreign turf. Best wishes to all our teams over the Holidays, Merry Christmas GO USA!!!!!!!!!
Carbon Hans and the deBotech Team
USA Sliding teams on Fire in Lake Placid NY
We are so proud to support our teams and help them win Gold.
MAE Hall of Fame at NC State Inductee, Hans deBot
Hans deBot, a local businessman and entrepreneur, was inducted into the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Hall of Fame at NC State University on November 1, 2013. He was nominated for this honor by his colleagues and was selected by the faculty and Dean of the MAE Department at NC State.
See full article @ http://www.debotech.com :
http://debotech.com/wordpress/?p=865
US-Skeleton Team: Working Together to Go FASTER!!!!
U.S. National skeleton head coach Tuffy Latour (top), Dr. Grant Schaffner, engineer and co-founder of ProtoStar Engineering, and Hans deBot of deBotech, Inc. view results during wind tunnel testing at A2 Wind Tunnel in Mooresville, NC on September 12, 2013. Four national team skeleton athletes tested the new ProtoStar V5 sled in MooresvilleÕs A2 Wind Tunnel during scheduled test sessions on Thursday and Friday. Two-time Olympian and 2012 World Champion Katie Uhlaender, 2010 Olympian John Daly and World Cup competitors Matt Antoine and Kyle Tress spent two days testing the new sled setup under the guidance of head coach Tuffy Latour and driving coach Zach Lund. ProtoStar Engineering, Inc. teamed with Machintek Corporation, deBotech and Carpenter Technology Corporation to design and develop a new skeleton sled for the USA Skeleton team to use at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. David T. Foster III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com
US Skeleton Team Tests in Mooresville…….. Charlotte Observer.com
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/12/4309169/us-skeleton-team-conducts-testing.html
“Gold or Bust” per Steve Holcomb
It takes a village to build a Gold Metal Sled: More local coverage for upcoming Olympics in Sochi 2014………………
deBotech Helps 4-Man Bobsled Team Gear Up for Sochi 2014
Hans deBot and the 4-Man Bobsled Team were in Mooresville, NC testing for Sochi. Check out the attached USA article regarding the upcoming Olympics in Sochi 2014.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Inside a wind tunnel testing facility in the heart of NASCAR country, a team of engineers, ride designers and builders and aerodynamic experts look for precious seconds of speed.
But they’re not watching a race car. They’re watching a bobsled – specifically the state-of the-art Night Train 2 with members of the U.S. bobsled team inside, including three of the four who won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Every tenth of a second matters. Just more than sixth-tenths of a second separated first place from fourth place at the 2013 world championships.
Without giving away intel, bobsled driver Steve Holcomb said they have found ways to shave time thanks to the wind tunnel.
“If you lose one-hundredth of a second each run at the Olympics, that’s four-hundredths over a race. That’s a lot. That’s the difference between a medal and not winning a medal,” said Holcomb, who is preparing for the 2013-14 bobsled season and the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Night Train 2 is the evolution of Night Train 1, the sled Holcomb piloted to the first U.S. gold in Olympics four-man bobsled since 1948. The biggest difference is that Night Train 2 is made of carbon fiber instead of Kevlar and fiberglass. Carbon fiber is lighter and provides better weight distribution but is more expensive. In short, carbon fiber allows for better aerodynamics meaning more speed.
Night Train 2 is the product of Bo-Dyn Sled Projects, the company run by former NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine and Bob Cuneo of Chassis Dynamics. They have employed auto racing technology and ingenuity to bobsleds and brought in key motor sports insiders such as fabricator-designer Jim Garde, composite expert Hans deBot and aerodynamicist Louis Duncan.
Holcomb’s team, consisting of Justin Olsen, Steve Langton and Curt Tomasevicz, is adjusting to the new design and material of Night Train 2.
“The sled is certainly stiffer. Aerodynamically, that is better,” Holcomb said. “But it makes it a little different to drive. It’s not quite as smooth, which is kind of unfortunate because that’s a nice ride. At the same time, I’ll take speed over comfort.”
The new sled wasn’t unveiled until March, meaning Holcomb’s team has had limited experience with it on the track and will enter the 2013-14 World Cup season without driving it in a race.
“It would have been awesome to have this a year ago,” Holcomb said. “It’s amazing that we have it now, but at the same time, it’s just a time crunch. We only have four months to figure it out. We have a good team behind us. They know what they’re doing and what it takes. It’s not like it’s the first bobsled they’ve ever built.”
Members of the U.S. bobsled team will spend a week in Sochi in late November and plan to take approximately 40 runs on the technical and speedy but safe track. The Sochi Olympics will be held in February.
“This sport is about repetition,” Holcomb said. “The more runs you get, the better you are. … I know we’re going to have the fastest push on the hill. I don’t want to be the one who makes the mistakes so I have to figure out what it takes to get this sled to do exactly what I want it to do when I need it.”
deBotech Scores an A+
deBotech Source Evaluation Summary
This is a recent, on-site supplier evaluation conducted by one of America’s leading OEM’s. This is yet another example of deBotech’s commitment to excellence and continued improvement as seen in these results.
deBotech is a Full Service, Quality Driven, Composite Manufacturer and we invite you to come evaluate us as YOUR #1 Quality Carbon Supplier.
Sincerely,
CarbonHans
Motorsports Industry Drives Entrepreneurship
deBotech, Inc. was featured in the May issue of the Business Today magazine for an article titled “Motorsports Industry Drives Entrepreneurship”. Also featured were Hans’ good friend and local business owner of SCSA & SRI, Mr. Greg Fornelli, along with Steve Fricker President of Pro-Tint. Check it out:
http://www.businesstodaync.com/images/DIGITAL/btmay13.pdf
dBt Supports Our Community
Ms. Spivey and deBotech Reps.
Jamye deBot of deBotech, Inc. and daughter visited the local soup kitchen and donated meal items to support our local community. deBotech, Inc. believes it is important to give back and hopes this will help local families to have a hot meal and not go hungry. Ms. Spivey of our Mooresville Soup Kitchen was very nice and welcomed the donation so please visit them to donate items or your time @ 275 S. Broad St., Mooresville, NC 28115.
Custom Products………. by deBotech
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CarbonHans: Thanks for the shout out on Twitter and throughout the race coverage especially for the guys in my shop that work hard each and every day to build top quality, cool sh…. um- stuff! – Hope the brace helps and you feel better soon my man!!!!!
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