A pair of Canadian athlete-engineers is using technology to their advantage at the Paralympics | CBC Sports

"It is human NASCAR at some level, says Canadian wheelchair sprinter Austin Smeenk. We're going in a circle trying to see how fast we can do it and optimizing everything to do it as efficiently and effectively as possible. It's the real deal."

"We continue to use the analogy of you take the same race car and make it lighter, it's going to go faster. Force equals mass times acceleration; less mass equals more acceleration. So we really honed in that racing chair to be as minimalistic as possible," Smeenk said.

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