Re: could nascar be contemplating easing restrictor plate racing rules?...
- From: "Ray O'Hara" <mary.palmucci@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:36:22 -0500
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:25:43 -0800 (PST), Seven <sevensks@xxxxxxxx>daytona
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On Feb 28, 12:38 am, "Ray O'Hara" <mary.palmu...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Joe Bobe" <b...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry if this was already discussed/argued/flamed, but...since
racei have been wondering what nascar is really up to. Its obvious that
even the tiny amount nascar opened up the restrictor plate hole
diameters helped to make it more like a race than a procession of
cars. Nascar, listen up, the roof flaps work baby. Lets dump the
restrictor plates and get back to 200mph racing at the big ovals.
j<>b
they can't get insurance to race at 200mph.
they will never lap that fast again. so forget about it.
You have a link for that by any chance? It's just that I see that
claim made a lot and have yet to have any luck in finding
documentation to back that up.
I have to believe that it's something else, myself. NASCAR has several
insurance companies on board as official sponsors, so I would think
they could work out a deal with one of them to get the proper
insurance if they wanted. You sure it's a matter of can't, and not a
matter of won't?
-Steven
You also have to think of *what* is at risk that would make an
insurance company nervious: the fans.
Unless they move the grandstands back and give the cars that leave the
track a clear zone to land in, the fans are in more peril in the
current stands with cars at or above 200mph. It ain't about the
drivers, per se. It's one thing to have a sub-2k pound composite
pointy car with 10's of thousands of pounds of downforce looping at
220, its an entirely different animal to try to contain 3400lbs of
carl going 200mph.
And its not just the whole car we're concerned with. Ask that guy that
caught a hood at Daytona about 10 years ago about how high up he was
sitting in the stands, and how badly it broke his leg. Do we know that
our hood tethers can hold up to a 200mph blowover today? Are those
rear wings tethered? We'd have to tether the wheels then too...
No, I don't think this is as much about insuring the drivers, which is
possible I'm sure, as it is about fan safety. IMO anywho.
And anyone that is utterly convicned that "flaps" work need to watch
the Pro Stock class in the NHRA for a while. With their terminal
speeds approaching 210mph now, I've seen more and more of those cars
getting out of shape and flying in interesting ways. Even seen a
couple go over the wall.
if bobbie allison had gone through the catch fence at pocono that day he
would have killed well over 100.
its the same with pit lane speeds.
the insurance premiums would be huge without them.
.
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