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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Reaper90 on June 08, 2014, 12:34:28 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEyTW4D8vRg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEyTW4D8vRg)
100mph wreck, 1st to 25th and back to 1st, aka "A Clinic in Getting It Done."
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That is fantastic concentration. Thanks for posting! :rock
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"wreck" that's a spin. :rolleyes: Drama queens
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I hope he studied his caster and camber carefully post race so he can set up his car like that without crashing next time :devil
Or did he possibly lose 100 pounds worth of parts? :D
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"wreck" that's a spin. :rolleyes: Drama queens
This coming from the "Michael Schumacher expert" of the forum.
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This coming from the "Michael Schumacher expert" of the forum.
:headscratch:
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Only in America can you crash your racing car and somehow make it better! :P Awesome driving by that guy! :aok
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"wreck" that's a spin. :rolleyes: Drama queens
I'll call it a wreck since that's the title if the vid, posted by the actual driver.. No, the car wasn't destroyed, but there was contact involving four cars, and body damage, so it was more than just a simple "spin" ...
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Only in America can you crash your racing car and somehow make it better! :P Awesome driving by that guy! :aok
He also seemed to have a definite power advantage over most of the field too. Impressive driving. :aok
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He also seemed to have a definite power advantage over most of the field too. Impressive driving. :aok
In the start he was being left behind. Perhaps something heavy fell off in the crash. Spec Racers are supposed to be identical. They even add ballast to compensate for the differences in weight of the drivers.
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oh hell i can do that :cool:
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They are identical, but that doesn't mean they'll run identically. Every car ever made will have a slight discrepant from identical ones rolled of the line. Even a couple of HP or lb/ft can make a difference, I'll bet that's all it is some days. Sure is fun racing to watch where driver skill is the lions share of it, not who has the better tech car. I could really get into watching this after that race. I like F1, and will watch any kind of racing, but this type of stuff is always a blast. I bet it's a lot of fun to race these Spec cars.
Regardless of how this driver won, he won, and drove very well, considering he's not a national champ level driver like some of the leaders in the field here. Probably showed he has what it takes at least to move up to that level though. Again, fun race to watch, the comments were funny.
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Well, he started in or close to pole position so he can't be a dud either.
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That is one nasty 4ssed track man..... I got back pain just watching it
Awesome drive...It makes you wonder what sort of time he could have got if he drove like that from the start...
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great drive, most would of gave up as soon as they got spun round.
EatG
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In the start he was being left behind. Perhaps something heavy fell off in the crash. Spec Racers are supposed to be identical. They even add ballast to compensate for the differences in weight of the drivers.
Yeah, that was kinda my point, though I managed to say it completely backwards. :confused: He did seem to close on a lot of guys pretty quickly on the straights.
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If you watch the video, the place where he absolutely dominated the competition was his ability to drive a much better line through the corners, hit his marks, and carry a significantly greater corner exit speed. The greater the corner exit speed, the higher the speed on the straight. Low horsepower cars like the SRF, this is especially critical because every mph lost in cornering and braking takes quite a bit of real estate to make up. SRF's get 105hp out of their 1.9L SOHC Ford 4-cylinders... they are truly momentum cars. You bleed off too much speed, the guys behind you are going to eat you alive. He ran down the bulk of the field because of a little bit of sloppy driving on their parts, and a lot of him taking advantage of traffic and the leading cars fighting each other for position, which slows their laps since they're fighting each other instead of running perfect, clean laps.
At the start he fell back because he got caught in the "center lane" in the draft all by himself. All these cars, even production based cars like I raced, really benefit from the draft at 100+mph. It isn't just for NASCAR. :)
As far as weight goes, there is a minimum weight for each class, but that doesn't mean they all weigh the same. Cars are weighed at post-race impound, typically the top 3 in each class, to ensure they are not too lite. I always started the race about 80 lbs heavy (weighed with driver) to ensure that as fuel burned off during the course of the 35 or 40 minute race, I wouldn't wind up underweight.
Long and short of it is this guy was just flat getting it done.
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I agree, his car seemed significantly faster (as evidenced by the love taps) but he ate people alive in the sharpest turns. I found it funny that he was saying his tires were worn while he was simultaneously passing people by taking the inside line over and over and over.
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His bellybutton was almost hanging out in many corners so he was really on the edge of grip.