Pilot and Park City native Steve Holcomb and push athletes Justin Olsen (Texas), Steve Mesler (New York) and Curt Tomasevicz (Nebraska), won gold at the Vancouver Winter Olympics and secured the United States’ first Olympic title in the four-man event since 1948.
Up against the five-time Olympic-champion German team, the Americans won by just 0.38 seconds, a margin that underscored both the physical power of the team and the technical brilliance of the sled.
USA Bobsled says the sled, nicknamed “The Night Train” for its sleek, jet-black exterior, became a symbol of American innovation and dominance on the ice.
It took more than a decade to create the state-of-the-art machine designed by Bob Cuneo of the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project and used NASCAR-inspired technology and advanced materials like Kevlar, fiberglass and carbon-fiber compositions.
The sled earned recognition as the fastest in the world at that time.
