On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:43 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: John Francis > >> I've often heard a very similar story attributed to Colin Chapman (who was >> the lead designer of the notoriously fragile Lotus Formula One cars driven >> by such luminaries as Jim Clark). He (Chapman) was reputed to have said that >> the ideal Formula One car would fall apart as it crossed the finishing line. > > That doesn't seem right. What would you use for the next race?
At that level you pretty much rebuild the car between races anyways. Then there are the top fuel dragsters who get one 1/4 mile run out of each motor rebuild. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
