You could drive onto a golf course and get that other asshole Tiger Woods.
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!
You should stop by GOATland. it's nice there too
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...”
You have to realise that here, the racing is cut/edited in such a way as to fit into a certain time span that includes commercial interruptions, yet must still fit within the parameters of the broadcast schedule. As a result, no matter what the product is you might be seeing locally, here, it is a cut to pieces, jumbled up mess that is nearly impossible to follow.
I guess the blame can be evenly split amongst the American tv programmers and the racing sanctioning body that allow such a mediocre broadcast to go forward. And it's a crying shame, as I stated earlier, the racing (from what I've been able to discern) appears to be terrific. It reminds me of what used to be referred to as saloon car racing from Europe in the 1980s, and although hard to find on tv, was always a rewarding experience.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
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