As far as the "Fuel" burning on top of the water. If
they had not done it that way non-race fans would be
complaining that the fuel did not catch fire. Not
everyone knows about methanol fuel.
--- jac73@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
> Dan Timko says:
>
>
> >I guess we should just all complain. Maybe they
> will never make a racing
> >movie ever again! That way, we won't have to endure
> the pain. Oh wait, we
> >are just a minute percentage of who they make their
> money off of. :)
>
> My beef is simple: Stallone, the screenwriter,
> spent over a year getting
> intimate with the F1 circus and another year (after
> Czar Ecclestone
> demanded a licensing fee roughly twice the budget of
> the movie) with the
> CART teams before production started. I would hope
> that he would have
> learned SOMETHING about how the cars work, or at
> least that CART Champ Cars
> use methanol fuel, which a) burns invisibly, b) is
> quite well-contained in
> a fuel cell, and c) is completely miscable in water
> and thus exceptionally
> unlikely to pool on top of a shallow pond, let alone
> catch fire there.
> He'd have learned that they don't have on-board
> starters, and that show
> cars never have engines or fuel in them. He'd have
> learned that there's
> *one* designated communicator in the pits and
> sometimes a spotter on the
> roof of the press box at ovals, and certainly
> girlfriends and ex-wives
> wouldn't be able to talk to the driver in the middle
> of the race. But that
> was too much to hope for, apparently.
>
> >And I agree with the guy in one of the previous
> emails who was happy that
> >they are at least MAKING racing movies. But maybe
> some of you would prefer
> >to watch the new version of "Annie" than a
> not-so-perfect racing movie. :)
>
> It's entirely possible that a really bad racing
> movie could do more harm to
> racing than no racing movies at all. "Days of
> Blunder" didn't do NASCAR
> any favors as far as countering the redneck image
> they were trying to shed.
> Just the bizarre CGI wrecks shown in "Driven"'s
> commercials are a
> disservice to the racing community.
>
> >I for one, learned something: I never knew CART
> cars had 20 gears that
> they
> >could downshift into, which would propel their car
> ahead of the next car
> >while the other car was supposedly already going
> top speed in a straight!
> :)
>
> Not only that, the drivers only run half-throttle on
> a superspeedway,
> except when they need to pass someone...
>
> Jim Crider
> autojim@att.net
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