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> > On Apr 3, 6:23=A0am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Al ****ba <williamhubb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > On Apr 1, 4:27=A0pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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> >> >> > 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
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> >> 300
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> >> 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
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> >> 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 have to put in?
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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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> I cross-posted to rec.pyro, so if anybody knows the answer, it will be
> them. =A0I'm not optimistic, though, because, like most people on
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So tell us there Joe. Whats a RED BOX??
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