As Indy 500 progresses there will surely be better pictures, but this is exciting now to see, even tiny, National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program logo on National Guard car. This is a successful awareness for NGYCP after Atlanta NASCAR race where car #24 carried NGYCP logos as well.

Though tiny, still quite noticeable, right under the re-fueling door.


The overall design of this car is spectacular in ACU digital pattern.

I am not even mentioning the design of the car — simple yet right on. Additionally, note ESGR logos on the car as well.

I will add more pics to this blog post as I find them throughout Indianapolis 500.

If anyone cannot tell that I am f1 fanatic (by looking at the domain name of this site), I am going to submit this right now.

This weekend is a first F1 race in Melbourne, Australia. I cannot really watch the race without watching qualifying session first. In fact, for me qualifying session has become more exciting than race itself, ever since they've moved to knock-out style. Anyway, I am on the road and do not have a good access to internet. I have my mobile broadband card from Sprint and Android G1 data plan. Both are completely unlimited in traffic.

I spent entire morning nursing my laptop downloading qualifying session. First I tried to Sprint mobile broadband card. But it was too slow for too long. Then, I've enabled my tethering app on Android and speed went up. I think averaged 100kbs, with peak of about 145kbs. So I left my laptop in the car with download in progress. USB cable was powering Android from laptop battery. I went to grab a coffee in Miami Lakes and briefly spoke with real estate agent. Must have been no more than 30 min. I returned back to the car to find Android completely dead, despite it being fed power from laptop. I guess it must have gone to infinite loop of sorts or something that the drainage was so high that USB power from laptop wasn't enough :)

So I went back to Sprint mobile broadband card and finally finished my qualifying session download. Overall it must have taken about 6 hours between the time I started this endeavor.

Too bad there isn't an app for Android yet that will just download torrent. I may try to install command line shell package for that. Tomorrow, I may have to go through the same to download the actual race... I need to find a better _mobile_ process for doing this. Now off to somewhere in Miami Beach, grab food or drink and watch qualifying!

Great exposure of ChalleNGe this weekend in Atlanta Kobalt Tools 500, this was a dream of many leaders of this great program, and now it comes true. Jeff Gordon's car No. 24 Dupont National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Impala SS! I am not adding any thing in here. According to official website, the car title is indeed National Guard Youth Challenge Impala SS.

I was told that car would have hood logo of ChalleNGe, but was surprised to find out that rear panels had it as well.