Text 38397, 73 rader
Skriven 2006-09-05 09:40:41 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 38302 av Joe Delahaye (50523.fidonews)
Ärende: Holy Trinity
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04 Sep 06 11:03, Joe Delahaye wrote to Roy Witt:


 >>  JD> Is nascar worth watching?
 >> Absolutely.
 >>  JD> I hardly think so.
 >> I knew you wouldn't.
 >>  JD>   Formula 1 on the other hand....
 >>
 >> Sucks big time. Who wants to watch a bunch of Go Kart jockies hit the
 >> wall and see their cars disintegrate, never to re-enter the race
 >> again?

 JD> Somehow I knew you would say that.

Because you know I'm right.

 JD> You are wrong as usual though.

Far from it, and I'll prove it with a reply to your next statement.

 JD> I've watched Nascar more then once.

Perhaps a glance over your shoulder at the tv while someone was channel
hopping. Ok, it's the next one.

 JD> They disintegrate as well, never to re-enter the race.

And this is why I know you've never seen a NASCAR race. The only time they
'disintegrate' is during a high speed ROLL! Those don't usually return to
the race, but some have on occasion. See, they're built to take it where
the go kart isn't.

Hitting the wall, unless it's a head-on into the wall, doesn't
disintegrate the car. It's damaged, but it will return to the race after
it's repaired. When a go kart hits the wall, even a slight scrape, it will
disintegrate and never return to the same race.

 JD> Go Karts??

Yes, go karts!

 JD>   I defy you to drive on that circuit.

I have, several times. But I was smart enough to know to NOT drive a go
kart. Any 3 series BMW is quite capable of driving those circuits and do
so. So do many other 'real' cars. Go karts, oth, are limited to well
maintained tracks with no bumps or obsticles in their way.

 JD>   As far as I know, only one person has ever managed to go from
 JD> Nascar to Formula racing.

That's how much you know about racing, very little. There are and have
been several drivers who've driven both and a few have done it on the same
day (one example; 600 miles at Charlotte and 500 miles at Indy). Robby
Gordon and Tony Stewart, to name just two.

Next year, a new driver will be coming over from Formula racing to
NASCAR. Not very many of those drivers can handle a real car on a race
track. All they know is go karts.

You can prove that to yourself by watching an IROC race. International
Race of Champions; driven by drivers from all kinds of racing, even go
karts. You'll notice that the people running at the front are usually
NASCAR drivers. Some Indy Car drivers have been successful, but not many
and they're usually Americans. The IROC cars are all prepared identically,
so no driver can ever say the car was the difference.

               R\%/itt


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