Researchers have built a race car from items usually found at the grocery store and, it's fueled by leftover chocolates! Called Lola,the WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car was built by scientists at Warwick University in Great Britain. The "green" racing car is made recycled materials and from fruit and vegetable products. Its steering wheel is made from carrots, the body of the car from potatoe products, its seat from soybean oil foam and flax fiber. And, the fuel...chocolate, mixed with carrots,flax and vegetable oils! The WorldFirst Formula 3 has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can zoom down the raceway from zero to 60 in 2 1/2 seconds.

Seventy-one dog teams have begun this year's famous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.Leaving from Willow Lake, on Saturday, March 6th,the final destination is Nome, Alaska. Over the years, racers have endured sub-zero temperatures, high winds,blinding snows and wind chills to -100 F covering the 1161 mile race route. The Iditarod Trail,began as a mail and supply route to mining towns in the interior of Alaska. In 1925, part of the trail was used to helped save the city of Nome suffering a diphtheria epidemic. Needed medicine was brought in by mushers and their hard working dogs. The Iditarod honors this history of the state of Alaska.Lance Mackey, three-time champion of the Iditarod, is hoping for his fourth consecutive win.And,in a first for the race, begun in 1973,...a musher from the Caribbean island of Jamaica!This site has lots of great information:

Seventy-one dog teams have begun this year's famous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.Leaving from Willow Lake, on Saturday, March 6th,the final destination is Nome, Alaska. Over the years, racers have endured sub-zero temperatures, high winds,blinding snows and wind chills to -100 F covering the 1161 mile race route. The Iditarod Trail,began as a mail and supply route to mining towns in the interior of Alaska. In 1925, part of the trail was used to helped save the city of Nome suffering a diphtheria epidemic. Needed medicine was brought in by mushers and their hard working dogs. The Iditarod honors this history of the state of Alaska.Lance Mackey, three-time champion of the Iditarod, is hoping for his fourth consecutive win.And,in a first for the race, begun in 1973,...a musher from the Caribbean island of Jamaica!This site has lots of great information: