The Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project Blog

Welcome Team Holcomb to our Blog!

I'm happy to introduce Team Holcomb as guest bloggers here at the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project blog.

For those of you who don't know, Steve Holcomb and his team were the top men's bobsled team in the world last year, taking the World Cup Combined title. Holcomb is entering the second half of this year's season as the World Cup leader, ranked just eight points ahead of Germany’s Andre Lange in the two-man, and 56 points ahead of Lange in four-man.

Holcomb's push crew of Steve Mesler, Pavle Jovanovic, and Brock Kreitzburg, has proved to be one of the fastest start engines in the field.

This week the team is in Cortina, Italy. Steve won his first-ever gold medal last season at the World Cup competition in Cortina, where he swept the two and four-man races on his way to claiming the overall World Cup title.

Steven and his team will be contributing here periodically to talk about the places they visit, the work they do, and the experience of competing with the best bobsled teams in the world.

From left to right are Steve Mesler, Steven Holcomb, Brock Kreitzberg and Pavle Jovanovic. To watch the action check out NBColympics.com.

 

The Chevy Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge

NASCAR and the NHRA and a television crew from SPEED will gather January 3-5, 2008 at one of the world's premier Winter Olympic venues, Lake Placid, NY, for the third annual Chevy Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge presented by Whelen Engineering. These drivers will pilot modified bobsleds on the same, yet slightly shorter, course as the world's top bobsledders. The auto racers will be asked to negotiate a three-quarter mile, 17-turn track with speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour.

The real challenge though, is to raise funding to continue research and development for the USA's bobsled teams.Geoff Bodine has teamed with Bob Cuneo of Connecticut-based Chassis Dynamics, to build bobsleds that have since won four Olympic medals in the past two Winter Olympics, many World Cup races and threatens the European stronghold each season on the World Cup tour. The money raised from the challenge event goes to helping the USA bobsled athletes will gold.

SPEED will provide four hours of coverage from the event.Qualifying results will air on January 20, 2008. The finals will air January 27 after the 24 Hours of Daytona broadcast.">Drivers include Geoff Bodine, Boris Said, Morgan Lucas, J.R. Todd, Jeg Coughlin Jr., Ron Hornaday, Joey Logano, Todd Bodine, Steve Carlson, Donny Lia and L.W. Miller.

"This event has gotten our attention," said Robert Ecker, Vice President of Programming for SPEED. "With the NASCAR affiliation, the Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge intrigues us and fits our programming target.

For ticket prices, and a unique opportunity to donate to USA athletes winning gold, please log to www.bodinebobsled.com