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I just love it when an expert driver joins in on a subject.
If the drivers are so "much better", why don't they do better when they come and "try" to drive at Indy ? If they are "that good", they should win on the first run at it and then go back and grin when ever Indy comes up ( if ever ) at a party ? Have YOU ever driven an open wheel race car at 200 MPH + in the dry, let alone in the rain ? I would like to see YOU even do a perfect run on an autocross course in the rain, at 45 to 60 MPH. If you can, YOU must be the International Champion. I look forward to seeing YOU driving at Indy next year. Yes, I have tryed it. AND NO I can't do it worth a crap. ( wet or dry ) Bruce Bing '03 LS |
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:15:34 -0700, XS11E >
wrote: >Wrong, they race on tracks designed for wet. Indy is not, the asphalt >is slick when wet. Tracks "designed for the wet"? What are you smoking? -- Larry |
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pltrgyst > wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:15:34 -0700, XS11E > > wrote: > >>Wrong, they race on tracks designed for wet. Indy is not, the >>asphalt is slick when wet. > > Tracks "designed for the wet"? What are you smoking? Tracks designed for the wet, what's hard to understand about that? Roads designed with drainage (Indy doesn't have much, water puddles on the track), asphalt that's not slick like Indy, etc. etc. etc. -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html |
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Hi Larry, I am 72 and I can remember back a lot longer than that ! Can
you remember what the cars at Indy were like before the went to F-1 looking cars ? The " Uprights " were a real hand full. Can you remember what the wheels and tires looked like ? ( and the tires even had tread on them ! :-) ) Bruce Bing '03 LS |
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On May 28, 7:10 pm, pltrgyst > wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:01:40 -0700, wrote: > >Yeah like that sissy F-1 where they just keep racing rain or shine. > >Let me see the cars are more advanced, the drivers better and the > >courses more difficult and they just keep going only not around in > >circles. > > Well, that's true. > > >Oh and they had a little race in Europe as well, called the Monaco > >Grand Prix. A tad more interesting than what happened on that old > >brick track in Indiana. > > But that's not. Monaco was the usual 1-2-3-4 parade. Dullest race of > the year, as always, unlees there's also a race at the Hungaroring. > > --nLarry Monaco is about the spectacle and glamour of it, I guess. It is kind of cool to have F1 cars zooming through city streets, scraping the barriers - even on that relatively tight and slow course, the fast laps are averaging around 98 mph. But as far as it being a competition, the qualifying might be more critical than the actual race. They should put the old Nurburgring back on the schedule. That would be something. |
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XS11E wrote:
> Not really, Monaco, Indy, Nascar are about as interesting to me as > watching golf on TV or watching the TV set turned off, which it usually > is.... Gotta agree with you there. I saw the Indy 500 live one time, the year that Steve Tyler from Aerosmith butchered the National Anthem. That was pretty cool, (the race, not the singing), but even with good seats it became boring to me after a while. It's not something I want to do again. I can't imagine watching anything but highlights of the race, (basically wrecks), on TV, but then, I haven't watched a Superbowl in over 20 years either, so to each their own.... Pat |
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