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Re: Fw: spoilers

To: dfergus@bactc.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Fw: spoilers
From: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:45:30 EST
In a message dated 11/15/1999 11:13:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
dfergus@bactc.com writes:

<< 
 When you say George lost a major portion of his belly pan do you mean it
 fell off ? If that was the case, shouldn't he have been reinspected? I have
 seen cars that spin or handle poorly get sent straight to impound for
 reinspection to ensure the safety of both the car and driver. Often we get
 too excited about racing to take a step back to look at the big picture, and
 run with less than 100% equipment. More often than not, this is when you get
 bit. I'm glad to hear George is OK after his crash but hopefully this might
 bring to light my concerns as far as safety. 
 
 Darrell
  >>
Group,
    George was pitted next to me at the World Finals, so I saw the whole 
thing take shape over the course of a couple of days. The part of the 
belly-pan he lost, as I recall, was the part from the motor-plate fwd. I 
heard him say that it might have come loose when the rusted Dzus fastener 
attach points failed. I don't know if he spun the car on the run where he 
lost the belly-pan, or if he had the car reinspected before running it again. 
SCTA ruless call for re-inspection after a spin, but I'm not sure what they 
require after losing a body part. 
    Next thing I knew was when it flipped in the 3rd mile. On Friday, the day 
I left after blowing a cylinder wall, George and crew had the trailered 
remains of the car parked at the 8 X 30 dumpster which they were trying to 
fill  with chartreuse fiberglass.
    In 1990, after I spun thelakester right in front of the timing stand on 
the return leg of a record run (Cagle jabbered about the spin on the CB for a 
while), I started to head for the pits when my crew suggested that while a 
spin terminates a record attempt it doesn't necessarily negate the whole 
effort. The times we recorded in the same relative mile of both passes 
exceeded the old record, so we got it.
                                Ardun Doug King

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