Tell that to anyone that had a GRT computer car.
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Zach51 it is blatantly obvious you have absolutely zero knowledge of race cars. Stay in the bleachers.
Bubstr, it's got nothing to do with Eldora getting special treatment. It's got nothing to do with making their own rules. It has everything to do with Eldora's new insurance policies. I'm not going to write a book here on the subject, but I'll start with just about every dirt track east of the Mississippi River, north to south is insured by K&K. Tony and Eldora are with a much bigger company, with much stricter guide lines. That's the reason for the addition of the door plate. There is some news about it on their website. Anyone who enters the pit area has this insurance available to them for a fee. Drivers, owners, crew and spectators. Same deal as NASCAR. The last sentence should be enough for everyone here to understand.
You can easily say, it has nothing to do with special treatment, but, everyone sees a special track that wants special insurance and wants it's racers to pay for it, with a special door plate. Standard rules keeps the remaining racers going. Up until recently, a racer could race anywhere with the same rules.
Clean out your inbox George.
It was said the car could've been signed in under another name, unlike what happened at Lasalle and they just said best was a sponsor. I fully agree with what you're saying, but if they did indeed sign the car in under another name, there's nothing that can be done. That's something only eldora and the people involved with that car that weekend will know. I'll be curious to see if it's back for the Appleseed though.
Regardless, they're not going to take away the sanctioning away from there. $$$$$$
Intrusion plates save lives. How can any driver racing at a high speed track like Eldora not understand that.
Most tracks here in WI have had the plate rule for many, many years.
Those were a case of mismatched chassis with aggressive suspension. The computer car probably would have made an outstanding "swing arm" chassis, but 4 link is far too aggressive for a platform that unforgiving.
Where have you been for the last 17 years, give or take? They gave up using suspension and springs in late 98' and it has only gotten worse. You have 2 solid rods holding up the LR, you have a solid bar you teeter from left to right on and the RF collapses onto a solid rubber bump stop and the chassis has been cut away to keep from dragging... If the chassis didn't flex they'd have nothing to absorb the sudden loads except the sidewall of the tires. What it amounts to is a series of crutches masquerading as high technology. They even had to switch from mild steel to Chromoly because it lasts longer with all the flexing, the next step(which is already underway) is Docul R8.
PM me the particulars, I'd like one.
How in the world would anybody think that adding weight, even though it is just a few pounds, wouldn't mess with a car's percentages?
Wehr's makes good stuff but this?
http://www.wehrsmachine.com/catalog/...roducts_id=993