anyone watch NASCAR?
06-25-2012, 12:23 PM
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And that's the thing, they are as fast but yet doing it on much less tire footprint. They would be a blast on an open track !
06-25-2012, 02:30 PM
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06-25-2012, 03:11 PM
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06-25-2012, 03:14 PM
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06-25-2012, 03:42 PM
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Actually, on the road race cars the brakes are amazing. I kept forcing myself to stay in the throttle longer than I thought was possible into the corners only to still over slow the car each time. Lots of pistons on thick wide rotors for the roadrace. On the Speedway cars they are smaller and lighter.
06-25-2012, 03:42 PM
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Red Bull spends about $250 mil a year which doesn't include engines (they get the for free from Renault) and googlin NASCAR budget, from Speed's NASCAR site, they say top teams spend about $20 mil a year.
"To make a race team competitive requires huge budgets, with the top Sprint Cup teams commanding more than $20 million per car annually and winning NNS cars as much as $6 million per year."
http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/cu...-nascar-teams/
06-25-2012, 03:45 PM
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Actually, on the road race cars the brakes are amazing. I kept forcing myself to stay in the throttle longer than I thought was possible into the corners only to still over slow the car each time. Lots of pistons on thick wide rotors for the roadrace. On the Speedway cars they are smaller and lighter.
06-25-2012, 03:47 PM
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PCA Chicago had an F-1 engineering consultant (did a lot of work for the red cars) speak 5 or 6 years ago.
He had a great line:
"Ferrari was given an unlimited budget for their F-1 program. They exceeded it."
06-25-2012, 04:22 PM
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Driver vs. Driver. Different cars and different drivers from different series...kinda like a ROC except...<off to work out the concept>...
06-25-2012, 07:07 PM
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06-25-2012, 07:09 PM
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06-25-2012, 09:09 PM
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06-26-2012, 01:10 AM
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Not to put the NASCAR, or it's technology down but they're far off...
Red Bull spends about $250 mil a year which doesn't include engines (they get the for free from Renault) and googlin NASCAR budget, from Speed's NASCAR site, they say top teams spend about $20 mil a year.
"To make a race team competitive requires huge budgets, with the top Sprint Cup teams commanding more than $20 million per car annually and winning NNS cars as much as $6 million per year."
http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/cu...-nascar-teams/
Red Bull spends about $250 mil a year which doesn't include engines (they get the for free from Renault) and googlin NASCAR budget, from Speed's NASCAR site, they say top teams spend about $20 mil a year.
"To make a race team competitive requires huge budgets, with the top Sprint Cup teams commanding more than $20 million per car annually and winning NNS cars as much as $6 million per year."
http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/cu...-nascar-teams/
http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/stor...al-environment