http://www.bmwblog.com/2013/09/13/golf-pros-rory-mcilroy-gary-woodland-racing-bmw-i3-electric-vehicles/ Golf PROs Rory McIlroy and Gary Woodland racing in BMW i3 electric vehicles By Horatiu Boeriu September 13th, 2013
[images http://www.bmwblog.com/2013/09/13/golf-pros-rory-mcilroy-gary-woodland-racing-bmw-i3-electric-vehicles/rory-mcilroy-bmw-i3-04/ video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz9OEnehqKY Rory McIlroy, Gary Woodland and the all-new BMW i3. bimmerblog Sep 12, 2013 2013 BMW Championship - Clip of the kick-off-event with Rory McIlroy, Gary Woodland and the all-new BMW i3. ] In the run-up to the start of the BMW Championship, the penultimate tournament in the 2013 PGA TOUR Playoffs, world number four Rory McIlroy (NIR) and Gary Woodland (USA), who is currently well-placed in 14th in the FedExCup rankings, took the opportunity on Tuesday to check out the future of automobiles. The two world-class golfers tested the new fully-electric BMW i3 in a sporting duel at the “Six Flags Great America” theme park. This was anything but a comfortable test drive. On a specially marked-out track, the goal was to beat the time of 36.230 seconds set by Matt Hullins, Chief Driving Instructor at the BMW Performance Driving Center. The two pros immediately switched into competitive mode. Both had four attempts, and they pushed each other to ever-improving lap times. Woodland (38.747 seconds) eventually finished with his nose just ahead of McIlroy (39.556 seconds). McIlroy, who recently became the proud owner of a BMW M6 Gran Coupé, was also thrilled by the BMW i3: “It was the first time I have driven a fully-electric car – and it was fascinating. Compared to a conventional car, the first thing you notice is how incredibly quiet it is. I was even more surprised by the speed of the BMW i3 on this track, and how agile it was in the corners. It was great fun driving this car on this circuit.” The defending champion – like the rest of the top 70 players on the PGA TOUR – will have the opportunity to experience this driving pleasure every day in the future: whoever hits the first hole-in-one on the 17th hole during the tournament week will be presented with a special prize: a BMW i3. The second Hole-in-One Car up for grabs at the BMW Championship is the BMW M6 Gran Coupé on the 11th hole ... [© 2011 BMWBLOG.com] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Commercial-EV Outstrip Consumer-EV Sales EVLN: UK’s first EV taxi service using 100% renewable energy EVLN: California AB1092 & SB454 To Improve Plugin Charging Access EVLN: GM developing 200mi $30k EV to challenge/compete-with Tesla EVLN: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Racecar/urban EV + EVLN: Renault & Bolloré team up on three-seater EV {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Golf-PROs-Rory-McIlroy-Gary-Woodland-race-BMW-i3-EVs-video-tp4665221.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
