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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
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Subject: Re: CART, F1, Racing...
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 15:22:37 EST
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Just my own opinion:  Tom Sneva is just too darned egotistical, and
believes that nobody except Tom Sneva knows anything about racing.
That's too bad, because he has shown that he can indeed perform well.
I sort of hope that being shown up by Pimm will make him reconsider,
but I don't know too many people who successfully reduced their egos.

On ground effects:  I'm agin' 'em.  Wings and stuff on top are bad
enough, but ground effects should go.  Reasons: Ground clearance is
too low; tracks are damaged (Phoenix and Spa both had to cancel/postpone
races at the last instant this year because of track surface being
pulled up by ground-effects suction); and once the car gets out of
shape enough to lose ground-effects, it's all over but the crash.

On the Winklehock crash... either Speedweek or MotorWeek Illustrated
indicated that the track management had permitted dirt to be piled
up behind the crash barrier, and so the barrier was unable to give.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug