Wednesday, January 25, 2012 By EMILY CUNNINGHAM - Advertising Wheel-y new Car Club zooms into high gear     The New Year is fueling up as car-lovers prepare for the inaugural year of the Car Club.     Senior Ben Brosh created the club because, “I’ve had a love of cars since I was very little and had the opportunity this year.”     The Car Club held its first meeting Friday, January 20. In the meetings they plan to discuss “different technologies, new and exciting cars, recent races, upcoming events, and just learning more about cars and having fun,” according to Brosh.     Member and senior Chris DiGiacinto says, “It’s great that there is finally a club for people who love cars.”     Although many members include car-lovers, it is also open to anyone who wants to join and learn more about cars.     Senior member Nick Conway says, “I think it will be helpful for people who don’t know much about cars.”     Senior Luke Boegner agrees, and says that, “It is a good experience for members whether or not they know a lot about cars. Ben prepared a lot for the club—he plans to have trivia questions for fun and he wants to bring someone in to talk about the parts of the engine.”     The club will host a car show during the D.U.CK.S. yard sale on May 12 in conjunction with the D.U.C.K.S. yard sale. It will be $5-10 to put a car in the show, but free to look at the cars. Brosh intends to donate the money made to the Boy Scouts for their Pinewood Derby race.     Brosh is also currently in an independent study of the physics of automobile engineering. Alongside senior Steven Poffenberger, whose independent study is aeronautical engineering, he plans to create a wind tunnel. Brosh describes a wind tunnel as, “a piece of developmental technology used to measure the amount  of air resistance that acts upon a car at high speed.”     He is building a model of an Audi R8 V10 Spyder that is about 1/24 to scale. Brosh intends to test the air flow around it with the wind tunnel.

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