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Aug 25th 2015, 7:02 pm

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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.... There were more fatalities in NASCAR between 1980 and 2015 than in Indy/F1 combined ...

Maybe NASCAR would be safer if it was an open-top formula?

Aug 25th 2015, 7:14 pm

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Maybe NASCAR would be safer if it was an open-top formula?

It's the ovals, IMO.

While the open top/open wheel concept makes for some 'unique' (for want of a better word) fatalities to the series (Tom Pryce, Gilles Villeneuve etc), the ovals are still more dangerous as there's not much room for error at 200 mph when you enter a skid, for example.

Aug 25th 2015, 7:16 pm

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It's not just ovals, it's corners, ..... which leaves us with drag racing.

Aug 25th 2015, 7:19 pm

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It's not just ovals, it's corners, ..... which leaves us with drag racing.

Wash your mouth out

Aug 25th 2015, 7:24 pm

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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It's not just ovals, it's corners, ..... which leaves us with drag racing.

I see a move to Concours d'Elegance racing.

Park the cars on a nice bit of grass and plug in the x-box...

Aug 25th 2015, 7:27 pm

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I see a move to Concours d'Elegance racing.

Park the cars on a nice bit of grass and plug in the x-box...

Or they could make it like Robot Wars - have real cars on the track but they are controlled by a bunch of Garys in a shed off to the side somewhere.

Aug 25th 2015, 7:34 pm

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Or they could make it like Robot Wars .....

Perhaps that was what Ferrari was working on between 1996 and 2006?

Aug 25th 2015, 7:35 pm

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Perhaps that was what Ferrari was working on between 1996 and 2006?

I'd love to have seen them incorporate Hypnodisc in there somewhere ...

Aug 25th 2015, 7:43 pm

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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It's not just ovals, it's corners, ..... which leaves us with drag racing.

That could be fun down the Interstate with State Troopers as opposition. Oh wait in Oregon that already happens on I5.

Aug 25th 2015, 8:17 pm

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Or they could make it like Robot Wars - have real cars on the track but they are controlled by a bunch of Garys in a shed off to the side somewhere.

Aug 25th 2015, 8:23 pm

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http://www.2dayblog.com/images/rc_fullsize.jpg

Always at the forefront of racing innovation, those guys. There is no limit to what can be achieved by a bored Brit in his shed

Aug 25th 2015, 8:39 pm

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Always at the forefront of racing innovation, those guys. There is no limit to what can be achieved by a bored Brit in his shed

Maybe with some campervan racing as support.

Aug 25th 2015, 8:44 pm

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Maybe with some campervan racing as support.

That was a genuinely entertaining race, that one ...

Aug 25th 2015, 8:48 pm

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That was a genuinely entertaining race, that one ...

Bernie should take notice...

Aug 25th 2015, 8:49 pm

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Bernie should take notice...

There's probably more chance of Maldonado finishing a race.