Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times has an article
in the sports page (probably findable at
their website), largely covering Bryan
Herta’s take on the Texas situation.
Among other things, Bryan says that "no one
could have predicted speeds of more than 230 mph
at the track but added that chassis and engine
devlopments are made from race to race and that
his car’s turbocharged Ford engine feels more
powerful that it did before a rule change this
year reduced turbocharger pressure in an
effort to cut speeds."
"The big thing is the draft," Herta said. "Running
in a pack of 20 cars increases speeds even more.
They couldn’t reach those speeds in testing."
Herta also described the drivers’ meeting:
"In over eight years in CART, I know Dr. Olvey
and the president of CART (Joseph Heitzler)
don’t normally come to our drivers’ meetings,
so when I saw them at the front of the room,
I knew something was up. When Dr. Olvey
asked for a show of hands (of drivers who
had experienced symptoms of vertigo), I
saw how many hands went up and I was floored."
Michael Andretti was quoted in the Monday
Los Angeles Times as saying something to
the effect that they had never encountered
this (vertigo and other symptoms) before.
Seems to reinforce the idea that CART did
the right thing in making the decision to
postpone, and seriously erred in not anticipating
this possibility. The latter point is amplified
by concerns first voiced when racing at Texas
was first proposed. Mario Andretti was very
vocal that racing on these high banked tracks
would be particularly dangerous for the CART
cars.
I’m guessing they’ll come up with a reduced boost
formula, and/or other measures to slow the cars
a bit and re-schedule. How they’ll handle the
justifiedly upset fans who paid not only for
tickets, but in many instance, some degree
of travel and accomodations, will be interesting.
A no-win situation for CART, but in terms of
safety, a no loss (or total win) for cancelling.
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SterlingLA (Sterling Smith)
SterlingLA:
>Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times has an article
>in the sports page (probably findable at
>their website), largely covering Bryan
>Herta’s take on the Texas situation.
This one:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/autoracing/20010501/t000036803.html
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"SterlingLA" <sterlin…@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times has an article
> in the sports page (probably findable at
> their website), largely covering Bryan
> Herta’s take on the Texas situation.
> Among other things, Bryan says that "no one
> could have predicted speeds of more than 230 mph
> at the track but added that chassis and engine
> devlopments are made from race to race and that
> his car’s turbocharged Ford engine feels more
> powerful that it did before a rule change this
> year reduced turbocharger pressure in an
> effort to cut speeds."
There was no open testing at TMS….
so yeah they could not have known becasue you never tried it!!!
if open testing could’ve ben done than there would been draft testing
and the speeds would have been much higher….
The face saving of CART has begun!!!
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> "The big thing is the draft," Herta said. "Running
> in a pack of 20 cars increases speeds even more.
> They couldn’t reach those speeds in testing."
> Herta also described the drivers’ meeting:
> "In over eight years in CART, I know Dr. Olvey
> and the president of CART (Joseph Heitzler)
> don’t normally come to our drivers’ meetings,
> so when I saw them at the front of the room,
> I knew something was up. When Dr. Olvey
> asked for a show of hands (of drivers who
> had experienced symptoms of vertigo), I
> saw how many hands went up and I was floored."
> Michael Andretti was quoted in the Monday
> Los Angeles Times as saying something to
> the effect that they had never encountered
> this (vertigo and other symptoms) before.
> Seems to reinforce the idea that CART did
> the right thing in making the decision to
> postpone, and seriously erred in not anticipating
> this possibility. The latter point is amplified
> by concerns first voiced when racing at Texas
> was first proposed. Mario Andretti was very
> vocal that racing on these high banked tracks
> would be particularly dangerous for the CART
> cars.
> I’m guessing they’ll come up with a reduced boost
> formula, and/or other measures to slow the cars
> a bit and re-schedule. How they’ll handle the
> justifiedly upset fans who paid not only for
> tickets, but in many instance, some degree
> of travel and accomodations, will be interesting.
> A no-win situation for CART, but in terms of
> safety, a no loss (or total win) for cancelling.
> –
> SterlingLA (Sterling Smith)
Right, there wasn’t open testing.
But Pacwest had two cars, Green, Penske, Walker, and Patrick each had a car
there. There were enough cars there at once to at least get an idea of what
to expect in the draft, although it may not have been sufficient. That being
said, they know enough about how their cars perform to know what to expect
in the draft.
"Brian Hoffmann" <nas…@io.com> wrote in message
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> There was no open testing at TMS….
> so yeah they could not have known becasue you never tried it!!!
> if open testing could’ve ben done than there would been draft testing
> and the speeds would have been much higher….
> The face saving of CART has begun!!!