Entergy teams up with Newman Wachs Racing and The Nuclear Energy Institute to promote clean, low-cost, safe nuclear power.

Why a car?

Entergy Nuclear is in its second year of the “Nuclear Clean Air Energy” campaign, having reached nearly two million people on the Atlantic Championship Series and across U.S. college campuses during that time. Our goal is to use the race car to gain visibility for our message and as a platform to recruit engineers to this growing, exciting industry.

Our Newman Wachs Team

Newman Wachs Racing is a team founded by two shared passions – motor sports and philanthropy – by principals Paul Newman and Eddie Wachs. Based outside Chicago, NWRacing is in its fourth season on the Atlantic Championship series with two “Nuclear. Clean Air Energy” cars also supported by Mazda, Cosworth and Cooper Tires. Developing champion drivers of the future, NWRacing has more than 200 years of top-level motor sports experience.

About the Car

The Swift 016a is the drivers’ office in 2009. It is a technically sophisticated, enormously reliable, blindingly fast and is incredibly safe race car.

It is built around a carbon fiber monocoque chassis, one solid, molded section of carbon fiber that forms the foundation of the car and cockpit. Weighing only 1275 pounds, it has a 2.3 liter 4 cylinder Mazda-Cosworth engine that produces 300hp at 8500rpm. It can accelerate to 100mph in less than six seconds and reaches a top speed of 170 mph.

About the Races

The Atlantic Championship Series celebrates 36 years of competition in 2009 and has become the most prodigious development series in the U.S. From Indy Car star Danica Patrick and NASCAR standout A.J. Allmendinger to Formula One World Champion Jacques Villenueve, all have roots in the Atlantic Championship Series.

On road courses, the series has ten race events in Sebring, Florida; Salt Lake City, Utah; Milville, NJ; Live Rock, Connecticut; Joliet, Illinois; Lexington, Ohio; Braselton, Georgia; Monterey, California; and two races in Canada.

The Atlantic Championship races in conjunction with the American Le Mans Series, which is the only auto racing series to be certified ‘green’ by the EPA, the Department of Energy and SAE International. It is the top rung of the highly esteemed Mazda Motorsports Driver Development ladder supporting young drivers in open-wheel racing in America.