Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site pyramid.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!zeek From: zeek@pyramid.UUCP (Jim Zeek) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: CART, F1, Racing... Message-ID: <61@pyramid.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 01:17:43 EST Article-I.D.: pyramid.61 Posted: Tue Nov 5 01:17:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:24:04 EST References: <1140@wucec2.UUCP> <845@terak.UUCP> Reply-To: zeek@pyramid.UUCP (Jim Zeek) Organization: Pyramid Technology, Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 In article <845@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes: > >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. > The track at Spa was not damaged by ground effects. First, Formula 1 cars are flat bottomed, and second the track fell apart because the organizers laid down a rubber impregnated road surface one month before the event. Formula 1 rules require 2 months for proper curing. When the road started to break up on friday, they tried to patch it up on saturday which did not work. Jim Zeek @ pyramid Technology (pyramid!zeek)