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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
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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)