Questions; I want answers

Can a "steel is real" kind of guy be happy on a carbon bike?
Or someone with a penchant for rigid singlespeeds find joy on a geared hardtail?
Have carbon frames improved in the decade plus since I owned one?
Maybe most importantly what is the right tool for the job in 2012?

Foundry Cycles might have the answers to all these questions.
Foundry is looking for 5 individuals to campaign their bikes this season.
If you're chosen, you even get to choose which type of bike they'll provide you to race.

Race, report, repeat it says.
I like that.

I like their philosophy too:

It's a Tool - Not a Trophy 

Foundry believes that a bike is a tool, a means to an end – not a trophy. It's about producing purpose built high-performance carbon bicycles that aren't traveling billboards – they're understated, they're cool, they're anti-pretentious, and they're meant to be ridden.

Sounds like my kinda bike!

For me, the Router would be the obvious choice, seeing as I mostly race the mtb.

But I've gotta say the Auger Disc CX bike is pretty dang sexy, in a stealthy brute kind of way.

So let's not beat around the bush here, just in case I've been too subtle up to this point:

I want to race a Router this year.  I'd like to see if I can up my game in the ultra competitive Cat1 40-49 class, as well as try my hand at longer 40-100 mile races where having a carbon frame, gears and a squishy fork may hold fatigue at bay a little better than steel on steel.  Could Foundry have the right tool for the job?  I want to find out.