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> >> > On Mar 29, 10:20=A0pm, Al ****ba <williamhubb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> > > Danica Patrick - Gentlemen Start Your Engines!
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> >> >> > Gentlemen only start their engines for girly girls, not for the
> >> >> > manly on
> >> > es.
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> >> >> Robby Gordon started this. if he was serious he'd drop 20 pounds
> >> >> to be like his brother Jeff. There's a NASCAR driver by the name
> >> >> of martin who weighs about 135. No one at nascar is whining..
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> >> > Certainly, I hope you know that Robbie and Jeff are NOT related at
> >> > all. =A0Nascar mandates a total weight for car and driver (a
> >> > minimum). Anything over the minimum is just a disadvantage for the
> >> > team. =A0But they all have to make the minimum. =A0Too bad you
don't
> >> > know what you're
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> >> > talking about.
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> >> I think they should take off all the equipment restrictions, except
> >> safety requirements, and let the engineers go wild. =A0?;)
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> > It would make for better racing...
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> It would also make for better engineering, and there's really no reason
> to do otherwise, other than the fact that the s****t is hidebound. =A0If
> they opened the techincal floodgates, track speeds would hit 275 mph
> within probably five years.
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> Of course, it does raise the question of what would happen if they put
> nitro-methane into the cars, as they do with the funny cars and
> dragsters that run the quarter mile sprints. =A0Those things get up to
300=
> mph within just that short distance, making nitro the obvious first
> choice for new technical ideas.
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> I figure that nitro-methane should dissolve in ethanol, and if I'm
> right, you could build something resembling a flex fuel race car, to
> stabilize the stuff against explosion. =A0But then, I suppose that "the
> stuff" must already be stabilized against explosion, or the quarter mile
> tracks would be a **lot** more interesting. =A0;(
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> I wonder what chemical they use to stabilize it, and what fraction they
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Dunno., maybe a little of the stuff they coat air****t runways when a
plane's llanding gear is bollixed.. it is sold as an water pump
lubricant called "water wetter"..
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