Dave, that's your opinion and your welcome to it. Jay (an Engineer that
designs these things) has already said that in his opinion and from the data he
has collected, that a shock will reduce the stress on the cars dramatically, I
trust his opinion.
I agree, spec shocks will be a fiasco (sp). There needs to be either a
claimer, or price cap on them.
Everybody keeps talking about the bigger budgets, that's here now with every
part on the car, can we lay that to rest and move on???
CR
Jim's Lawn Shop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris R.
I don't agree that shocks will make a car safer and easier to drive.
They may make it behave differently, but not necessarily easier
at the limit. I've driven/flew a few things that had top level setups
that were damn unforgiving of my very limited talent.
I'm sure there are lots of evil handling cars out there wearing
a few thousand dollars worth of shocks.
I don't buy the safety argument either, if you're worried about
mechanical failure induced crashes it's time to build some
better equipment. Race car engineers and builders are
always striving for balance between lightweight components
and service life, sometimes when the line gets drawn out
in the real world, i.e. the racetrack, they find themselves
standing around muttering obscenities staring at broken parts.
As others have already pointed out the enforcement of a spec
shock will be a pain in the butt, I can already imagine the protests.
I can see the addition of shocks will only widen the gap already existing
between the front and back of the grid. Even a spec "class" of shock
will create issues. Those with bigger budgets and engineering talent will
be able to devote the resources needed to tune for their own driver/chassis
combo, the rest will get relatively slower. I know you pointed out that
people
can do that right now and I agree, many have tried, but so far the
rubber pucks
have helped keep things pretty close.
I'd like to see the longer rubber pucks approved ( thought it was a
"done deal")
and get a look and understanding of the data that Jay has posted about.
Dave Phaneuf
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