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02-10-2010, 02:27 PM | #1 |
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One of my Coworkers wrecked his ARCA circuit car on speed...
http://www.thebusplace.com/motorsports/index.html
Barry is is our GSA contract guy at work.. Guy behind him clipped his back bumper coming out of the turn and he high-sided.. The windshield came off and he said his car filled with at least a foot of dirt before he started rolling again. came out completely fine and was at work this week without a scratch..
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02-10-2010, 02:54 PM | #2 |
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You're coworker got wrecked by the useless son of a 3x WDC. Congrats.
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02-10-2010, 03:45 PM | #3 |
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he was one of three cars wrecked by the same guy... Things were rather heated at the end of the race..
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02-10-2010, 11:00 PM | #4 |
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Hopefully it wasn't the crews yelling at each other, that never makes sense to me.
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02-10-2010, 11:54 PM | #5 |
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That wouldn't have happened if the car was also designed to turn right. Artificially modifying the car so it's CoG is as far left as possible so it can take left turns better will do that. It's called physics.
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02-11-2010, 12:24 AM | #6 |
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02-11-2010, 03:42 PM | #7 |
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then again a car designed to turn right wouldn't have a chance at being competitive..
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02-11-2010, 04:13 PM | #8 |
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The car is designed to turn right, its setup to turn left because thats what the course involves. Do you not think that road racing cars aren't setup the same way?
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02-11-2010, 08:18 PM | #9 |
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Ooooh, trying to make a point using semantics. Clever AND original. Awesome. But I digress.
Are road racing cars setup with their CoG shifted so far one way or the other that they are unable to corner in their 'non-dominant' direction without flipping over? Corner-unbalance, yo! |
02-11-2010, 10:07 PM | #10 | |
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02-11-2010, 10:50 PM | #12 | |
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02-11-2010, 11:04 PM | #13 |
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Are the ARCA cars set up like the 2010 Cup cars with that ridiculously huge fin on the left side of the rear window? The video talks about having "so many" cars roll over this week. Wonder if there's some aero issue NASCAR didn't find in testing.
And by "son of a 3X WDC" is that Piquet Jr? I thought he was in trucks. |
02-11-2010, 11:11 PM | #14 |
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Well then some one should tell LMP car manufactures to stop making there car take off any time they get sideways at high speed.
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