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v8 supercar thread
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tuftman
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Ahhh Paul Morris.. I remember one year when his teammate Alan Gurr, a relative rookie, put the car into the wall near 'the grate'. One of the Channel 10 TV crew went down to his pit bunker and asked him what he thought of the accident, and he proceeded to say something along the lines of "Alan won't get a drive with me again"(thats putting it nicely) really, the man is just a screw loose.. not much chop as a driver either IMHO. As for Crompo, some hate his technical jargon talk, I happen to LOVE it. In a sport measured in thousandths, its the minutest of details that make the difference, and him explaining them so thoroughly as he does is something I really enjoy.
Adz, perhaps this could be renamed the 'V8 Supercar thread' or somesuch, or would you rather a seperate thread?
Adz, perhaps this could be renamed the 'V8 Supercar thread' or somesuch, or would you rather a seperate thread?
Not Aloi$i FC
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hasbeen said:adz said:They are running on e85
E85 may not be an improvement over gas
by William Atkins
Thursday, 10 May 2007
Switching from gasoline to ethanol may not reduce air pollution and improve health conditions, at least according to a study just conducted by a U.S. atmospheric scientist at Stanford University (California).
Well there are benefits of ethanol fuel but people forget (or simply don't know) that we're consuming food in exchange for ethanol production, something that is obviously not sustainable in the long run. Not to mention the fact that ethanol exhaust generates over double the amount of ozone as gasoline exhaust. It's definitely not the "clean" solution some people make it out to be.
tuftman = These days, Eau Rouge is much safer but in anything under F1 specification you'd still find it somewhat of a challenge (while F1 cars will still be bottoming out at the beginning of the corner quite violently) and if something goes wrong, if you have a collision with someone or something on the car breaks, then you're still going to have a huge shunt. So it is still an exciting corner but F1 cars tend to gobble that corner up these days, compared to previous years, as you suggested. I reckon Le Mans would be insane to drive around, if only for the sheer speed of it. If anything goes wrong anywhere in about 90% of the track you're in pretty deep strife.
dibo
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Whose brainiac idea was it to put sequential boxes in the V8s?
No muffed changes, no missed gears, no dead clutches... less possibility of mistakes. Instead you get muffed hydraulics leaving the car stuck in 5th and limping around to the pits. If it's going to break, it should be more likely due to the driver screwing and pulling an overrev or shredding 2nd gear up than some 10c hydraulic connector springing a leak and dumping oil all over an apex.
The category has done the right thing in avoiding things like traction control, active suspension and the other guff, but then they put punch and go gearboxes in. What next, flappy paddles, carbon brakes and the rest?
I thought sequential boxes were a great idea when I was a kid first watching BTCC races on WWoS in the early 90s, but as far as something to improve racing I think they're stupid.
And the worst thing is probably that there are no more great shots of the drivers' feet dancing on the pedals with the heel'n'toe business...
No muffed changes, no missed gears, no dead clutches... less possibility of mistakes. Instead you get muffed hydraulics leaving the car stuck in 5th and limping around to the pits. If it's going to break, it should be more likely due to the driver screwing and pulling an overrev or shredding 2nd gear up than some 10c hydraulic connector springing a leak and dumping oil all over an apex.
The category has done the right thing in avoiding things like traction control, active suspension and the other guff, but then they put punch and go gearboxes in. What next, flappy paddles, carbon brakes and the rest?
I thought sequential boxes were a great idea when I was a kid first watching BTCC races on WWoS in the early 90s, but as far as something to improve racing I think they're stupid.
And the worst thing is probably that there are no more great shots of the drivers' feet dancing on the pedals with the heel'n'toe business...
tuftman
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Dibo - Your point about the whole lack of a H-Pattern gearbox. I miss them something shocking, but these H-pattern ones I think are partly to do with making it easier for newer entrants(obviously being easier to use - barring that I can't think of anything else)
I watched that pedal cam in amazement when the race was on(I was at work watching that bit), someone was unlucky enough to pick an arguement with me, saying a V8 Supercar would be easy to drive, then that footcam came on, and that was the end of that discussion
I watched that pedal cam in amazement when the race was on(I was at work watching that bit), someone was unlucky enough to pick an arguement with me, saying a V8 Supercar would be easy to drive, then that footcam came on, and that was the end of that discussion
Not Aloi$i FC
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adz said:
The organisation of the series really leaves much to be desired at times. This is just another example. It would've been a very nasty shunt if Courtney hit someone with that much closing speed.
Not Aloi$i FC
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tuftman said:
STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD!
Not Aloi$i FC
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tuftman said:
Not exactly. Seeing you write stone cold in your description made me think of Steve Austin from the WWE/WWF so I had to chuck it in!
In all seriousness though, crashing on the warm-up lap is a pretty bad mistake to make but I suppose that's why they have warm-up laps, to heat up the tyres and make sure everything is in working order for the start of the race. Apart from this, Stoner has finished the season on the front foot. I hope he can take the fight to Rossi next year.
tuftman
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OH HELL YEAH!
(yeah, I know who you're talking about lol)
You get cars spinning on the warm up lap and no-one cares beyond a bit of comic value in the final wrap-up. Suffice to say, you don't just 'spin' on a bike, its a little more dramatic then that. So to me its not a huge deal. (Word has it that Rossi wants Lorenzo out of the Yamaha team next year - for another thread I know)
(yeah, I know who you're talking about lol)
You get cars spinning on the warm up lap and no-one cares beyond a bit of comic value in the final wrap-up. Suffice to say, you don't just 'spin' on a bike, its a little more dramatic then that. So to me its not a huge deal. (Word has it that Rossi wants Lorenzo out of the Yamaha team next year - for another thread I know)
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