Woot! Danica Patrick Nabs Pole Position (????) In Daytona 500!!!
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You could drive onto a golf course and get that other asshole Tiger Woods.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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I've been to Norway, Denmark, Finland (Took the train from Helsinki to Leningrad in the old USSR days). I've been everywhere around Sweden but I never have been to Sweden. LOL! I've even been to Iceland. My mother in-law was born in Gotland.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Here's a simple example of regular drafting and a side draft...
You're on an interstate highway or multi-lane freeway. Cruising at around 60-70 MPH. You approach an 18 wheeler truck and when you get about 3/4 of a car length away from the rear it feels like you are getting pulled towards it and you can actually reduce your throttle and still maintain speed. That's regular drafting.
Side draft take the same scenario... but change lanes a begin to pass the truck. When you are about to the middle of the trailer it feels like you're being pulled in toward the trailer plus it feels like you need to press the gas more to get by the beast... if it has those new side skirts you'll notice that doesn't happen as much. Then when your front end begins to pass the truck's front end you feel your vehicle being pushed away from the truck and it feels like you accelerate just a tad more... that's side drafting.
It's all learning how to work with the bubble of air being created by another vehicle. If you've ever rode motorcycles on the highway you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Just in NASCAR you do this at 198 MPH with 42 other outfits riding your ass..."If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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The biggest issue involving the supercars here in the states isn't the competition, which appears to be terrific. It has more to do with the appallingly poor coverage of what is going on. Apparently, there isn't much of a budget for televising these events, which means only a handful of cameras cover things, leading to howlingly awful cuts from the front to the back of the pack, missed passes for the lead and virtually zero replays of anything. And the announcers certainly do not help matters, more often than not getting involved in a discussion that has little (if anything) to do with the action they are supposed to be describing.
Hell, even the log-heads at F-1 figured this out and brought in the pros from SPEED TV to handle things. At the moment, Formula One racing is the best covered racing sport there is, while NASCAR seems to be relegated to an awkward NFL-like broadcast scheme that is not only off-putting at times, yet it is highly insulting to both the fans and the subject at hand.
did you guys know the in car cam was perfected here?Comment
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