You have a reasonable request mayf. The salt is different enough from
all other racing
surfaces that any prediction about what will actually happen is just a
guess. I'd like
us to be smart enough to go after some hard facts so we could stop
guessing.
I see only two potential advantages to TC.
1) Reduce damage to the track I've seen the grooves cut by spinning tires.
2) Reduce tire expense.
And, of course, safety.
I'll be quiet now. Bryan
DrMayf wrote:
>Ok, my 2 bits worth. What benefits are to gain from TC other than not
>smoking a set or drive tires by overspin? It does not affect top speed at
>all. Only the time to get to top speed. And that seems to be well in hand
>because of th elength of the course. TC is of course very beneficial to
>those road race cars which must accelerate a zillion times a lap and that
>helps them to reduce the lap times. But top speed comes when the tire and
>ground make contact at zero relative speed. TC doesn't help this. In fact TC
>may indeed slow you down by either removing power or adding braking to a
>wheel.
>
>I am neither for or again it. The dollar argument in that it is expensive
>doesn't cut it with me because look at some of the high value racers, the
>300 mph door slammer...how much did that cost? Or Bank's Dodge truck? Big
>bucks here. So were are already into racing costing a lot of money if you
>want to set records.
>
>Is there a thought to having a trial case? I mean what if one of the regular
>cars was equiped with a system that could be turned on and off. Then we
>could make a run with and without to see if top speed is affected. If top
>speed is not affected then the rules committee and the members at large
>could evaluate whether or not to permit it. Or maybe permit it only at
>B'ville because this is a no points evernt.
>
>Dave, how much would a system cost to implement it like I said above? Dan,
>would you all let it have a fair test? Seems like a good thing to me... Then
>we could bitch about something else :^}
>
>mayf
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