A Wonderful Day at Occoneechee / Orange Speedway Celebration Saturday
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It's a great looking piece for sure. Looks like a '36 body. Haven't seen this particular car, but does it have torsion-bar front suspension, like the original?
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A Wonderful Day at Occoneechee / Orange Speedway Celebration Saturday
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The Tant/Mitchell/Hendrick 'Flying 11' is one beautiful peace!
A Wonderful Day at Occoneechee / Orange Speedway Celebration Saturday
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Sound's like another fantastic event , congratulations! I was not able to attend this year, but hopefully, I'll be on hand next time.
2 car push racing
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Couldn't agree more, the track's the problem......but we've already considered the changing-the-track option.....and that won't ever happen. To change the tack would be an admission of error or fault of the original design. Not an option.
2 car push racing
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Maybe there's a very low tech solution, after all.........change the car's front and rear configurations, so theyDON'T line up perfectly. As a final touch each car's front bumper area would be required to beUNDER-engineered, and unable to push anything for very long without suffering dooming damage.
2 car push racing
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The primary, basic, and fundamental cause of the problem is the race tracks...Daytona and Talladega were built before any of these aerodynamic/safety issues were understood. Big Bill's design criteria for Daytona: same size as Indianapolis (2.5 miles) only faster....a lot faster. Ten years later, 1969, the criteria for Talladega: create the next generation of Daytona. The aero/safety problems at 'Dega began immediately, with the driver boycott, etc. etc. and continues to the present. However, ISC is not going to change the track design, and admit a fundamental design flaw.
With the body-induced aero-profile being exactly the same foreach car, changing any body parameter, fuel cell size, pop-off-valve pressure yields an overall net effect of zero. The 35-car- pack returns or the tandem racing remains.Speed still being the problem, and with very little options left, NASCAR should havemandated drastically smaller and unrestricted engines for the super-speedways years ago....it would have proven cheaper than the route they taken. Who needs 900 horsepower anyway? 305 CI engines powering the speedway racers may look slow, but that's about the only solution left.
2 car push racing
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I watched every lap too, and totally wasted a Sunday afternoon in the process. This two-car 'racing' adds yet another element to the mix...if something happens (wrecks, mechanical, political) to one's designated partner, that's it. Toast.
How Will They Restrict at Daytona & Talladega with No Carburetors?
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Dave, as you know, the basic argument for fuel injection is to "modernize" NASCAR racers. Supporters wail about the fact that Detroit ceased producing carbureted vehicls in the mid 1980's and today's fans will not continue to stand for such antiquated race cars....... and it somehow resembles 'green' technology. (.like it makes any difference to anybody as to the mod of fuel delivery) But,EFI is where it's gonna get real tricky. It's all electronic and monitored/controlled by an on-board-computer. One could change the injector-opening-time-duration, for example, but will everybody be on the same page (electronically)...during the race? Seems such parameters could be changed, remotely, and a car that was "illegal" in racing mode, could be "legal" in the inspection line.
Southern National Speedway still in mothballs for the time being
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Tommy, thanks for the update. Honestly, I didn't think the bank would accept that offer...seems a 900K offer was also declined at their previous auction. The bank is in it for somewhere in the million-dollar-neighborhood.
Gentlemen, start your backhoes!
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The revival of Historic Cheraw Speedway has been nothing short of amazing! Several Bell & Bell Vintage race cars will be on hand for the reunion.