This makes for some other interesting (to me anyway) questions.
What about cars where the front wheels are in in-line configuration and
would only leave one track? Maybe this is where the money starts to get
verbose.
Would this only be for FIA records? How about SCTA?
And how about the John Burk liner that was described as having
everything in front of the front in-line wheels? (That one sounds extra
scary to me.)
RtR
Sent from my Dreadnought using that barely tolerable Thunderbird email program
On 7/22/2010 4:20 PM, drmayf wrote:
> Ray, I believe it does indeed invalidate the attempt. With only two
> wheels on the ground it is not a car. But, money talks.
>
> mayf
> Ray Buck wrote:
>
>> The question of "how many wheels on the ground" has been discussed
>> before and I'm not sure I ever saw a definitive answer.
>>
>> If a car is presented with 4 wheels but one (or even 2) of them
>> happens to lift off the ground during a record run, is the record
>> invalidated? It might be seen as somewhat like outrigger (training?)
>> wheels on a bike liner. Some may start with 3 or 4 wheels, but at
>> speed only 2 are in contact with the ground at speed.
>>
>> Just for the sake of argument, let's say that a car like the
>> Bloodhound which has 2 front wheels with a much narrower track than
>> the rear, finds itself in a state where the front wheels are off the
>> ground for a period of time...maybe 100 yards, maybe a mile...???
>> Would this then invalidate an FIA record? Or could someone protest a
>> record if they could show that only the rear wheels we in contact
>> with the ground? I think that's what Mayf's alluded to in the last
>> sentence of his post, and it sure seems like a questionable area to me.
>>
>> RtR
>> (gonna be on the salt early for SW to photograph course setup)
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