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Re: optimistic fuel gauge / formula one trivia

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Subject: Re: optimistic fuel gauge / formula one trivia
From: "Chris Doutre" <cdoutre@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:24:30 -0700
Yes, but when that back wing falls off, ...

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From: "O'Farrell, Fergus" <Ofarrell.Fergus@hitco.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:51 PM
Subject: optimistic fuel gauge / formula one trivia


> So now I've heard that if the resistor is blown your gas gauge reads low
and
> the temp gauge reads high.  Mine both read low, bad grounding maybe?
> I agree with Gordon, the turning G-force seen in F1 makes me get real
bored
> watching NASCAR, but that is only an opinion.  F1 anecdote: My workplace
> sells carbon/carbon brakes & rotors to F1 teams, and the sales rep was
> recently told that the downforce created was sufficient for the car, at
full
> speed, to drive on an inverted surface, if you could only get it there at
> speed.   Hmm, modify one of those hi-speed test tracks so that after the
90
> degree banked turn you go up rather than down and drive on the roof?
> Fergus O, pondering the improbable
>
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