Hi Everyone!

Well, the race and conference planning is fast under way and coming together
great. So far we have people from the US, Canada and Mexico all planning on
attending. We have several media crews planning on being to film the events,
race teams and EV'ers from all over the US and the registrations keep
rolling in every day. Based on the number of registered people, calls and
emails, this looks like it could be one of the biggest EV races ever.

Speaking of racing, the FLEAA is honored to be the ones to announce a very
special car that will be racing at the BBB. Thanks to the hard work of Bill
Dube and his sponsor A123, Shawn Lawless will be racing the recently
upgraded Orange Juice Dragster with the A123 battery pack out of KillaCycle
for the weekend! If you are not familiar with Orange Juice in its current
configuration, it is a shorten rail dragster, with 8 Zilla powered LEMCO
motors, now energized by the famous A123 cells from KillaCycle. The whole
dragster with motors, controller and batteries is weighing in less than
1000lbs. Shawn and his team will certainly be putting on a great show! We
can't wait to see what kind of times he can post.thanks to Bill Dube and
A123 for supporting Shawn's Orange Juice.

The rest of the drag strip line is looking very impressive as well. Besides
Orange Juice, Darin Gilbert of Bad Fish Racing, Matt Graham's Joule
Injected, ProEV's Electric Imp, Miramar's Porsche 944, Brian Hall with
Thunderstruck EV and numerous others will all be out there. There is also
local rumor of a new S-10 with a Warp 13 and a Z2K racing! We will have
close to 30 EV's competing in the competitions throughout the weekend. The
road rally is looking great with numerous long range vehicles taking the
line-up. More rumors of a Valence powered car from GA are surfacing as well.
Saturday afternoon will bring us the first ever East Coast Scootercross and
the much anticipated autocross later that day. We will see if ProEV and
their Electric Imp can hold their title from last year. To add to the fun,
we have invited a local road racer to bring his super-charged Acura NSX to
go head-to-head with the EVs.

So after the 2 hard days of racing and action, we will be winding down to a
much deserved award ceremony and award banquet dinner Saturday night. There
will be plenty of time to socialize and relax before the conference on
Sunday. Sunday's conference promises to yield a lot of great information and
discussions.

The FLEAA will be providing a continental style breakfast of bagels,
doughnuts and fruit with coffee Saturday morning at FAU while all the prep
work is under way. There is a group breakfast being planned like were held
at the 5th EVer for Sunday morning.


There is a lot of hard work being put in by numerous people to bring this
all together, but I would like to take a moment and thank our sponsors, who
without we would not be holding such a grand event:

Headlining the event this year is Vectrix, joined by AC Propulsion, Palm
Beach Toyota, Suncoast EV Outfitters (SEVO), Alltrax Controllers, Hawker
AeroBatteries, Coastal Tire and Auto, ThunderStruck Motors, KTA Services,
and Hi-Torque Electric.

We would also like to thank NEDRA for sanctioning the drag race at the
Battery Beach Burnout.

It is going to be a fantastic event and not one to be missed. It's not too
late to plan on being here. Registration for the events and race is free,
however, the FLEAA does ask that if you are going to attend and are planning
on being there to please take a moment to register at the website:
http://floridaeaa.org/modules/liaise/?form_id=6 This will allow us to have
your pit pass (name tag) pre-printed and ready for you when you arrive.

Thanks everyone, we look forward to seeing in a little over a week here is
sunny south Florida!

Shawn M. Waggoner
FLEAA
www.floridaeaa.org