[Shotimes] Racing

[Donald Mallinson]

I love watching Nascar on road courses, wish they would do more of 
them.  Most of the drivers do a really great job, and if any group 
should understand taking a big, heavy, not really ready for primetime 
racing car on a road course and having more fun and going faster than 
expected, it should be the SHO group!

Tony is a great driver and I was happy to see Boris do well.  He always 
can take crap and make it fast, but now he is getting good cars and I 
hope he gets a chance to go full time on the ovals too.  Would be great 
to see the "old man" of road racing do well in Nascar.  He deserves the 
chance, and I think he will do well.

With me I don't really care that the NASCAR cars aren't ideal for road 
racing, it is about making do with what you have.  If they were the 
perfect road racing instrument, they would be F1 cars and they are 
boring most of the time, I would rather watch drivers struggle a little 
and see those cars play tag with the wall about 90% out of control!

Great fun.

Don Mallinson

kerbyh@netzero.net wrote:

>Yep, yesterday's race at the Glen really did emphasize the fact that most NASCAR drivers aren't near as good as they are hyped to be.  Obviously Tony is good, and his car was just wicked fast, but then you had Robbie Gordon, Boris "I'll drive anything with an engine and a steering wheel" Said, and Scott Pruett.  And Scott was filling in for Sterling Marlin.  Barely got there in time to start the race.  Frankly, I found the whole thing just sad...
>
>Kerby
>
>-- Mark Nunnally <marknunnally@JoiMail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>You guys see PJ Jones explode his brake rotor?  See?  It doesn't just happen
>>to me.  :)
>>    
>>
>
>Those cars are really hard on those little brakes (remember they use 15"
>wheels so not a lot of room to stick big components in there).  I watch the
>in car telemetry and the corner speeds are almost the same as what we are
>there, but they really get moving on the straights with that ~900 hp.  155+
>down into turn 1 and 180+ down the backstraight.
>
>Was at Joe Gibbs Racing back last Oct while they were prepping some
>martinsville cars, they run a massive brake package for that track.  They
>stick as much hardware in there as it'll fit.  Rotor dia is limited in the
>15" wheel but the 6 pot calipers wrap 1/2 way around the rotor, and the
>rotor width looked 1.5" +.  Huge pad material depth to.  Mondo brake cooling
>ducts/blowers, etc.  The alternators can be 2 or 3x the amp output on the
>big brake type tracks (compared to like a restrictor plate track) just to
>run all the brake blowers, coolers, etc.
>
>I wish they did many more road courses.  Very fun to watch.  It's cool to
>see how a good wheel man can take a low budget 1 car team (robby gordon) and
>go beat the pants off the big dogs (started at the rear, passed 10 cars on
>the 1st lap!).  Shows you how important the driver is (vs just holding it on
>the floor around daytona for 200 laps!)  zzzzzzz
>
>Mark
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