The World Sports Car Championship, early '89-'90 was run on a system of fuel
economy and performance and it was the biggest failure ever seen. The last
three to five laps cars were running at 50 mph to make it to the end instead
of racing. Imagine then it was 225 mph sports cars running like they were on
the started motor. This was at LeMans we had that deal and of course all the
other European tracks for this series. Spa with a mileage restriction. Bah!!
and it did make a little more of the event to get the drivers to see just
how efficient they could drive but it also took away from the spectacle of
the event. No thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Preiss" <spreiss@verizon.net>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:39 PM
Subject: [Fot] mileage plus
> Group
> I really wish that the racing community would embrace and develop the
> concept
> of performance as a factor of speed and efficiency. Obviously it is a
> major
> factor in the distance racing of NASCAR and others. Wouldn't it be cool if
> there was a way to implement it in the sprint races typical of our groups?
> I think it would not be so hard to fit fuel meters with sending units,
> like
> the gas company does, and measure consumption during an event. Measurement
> could be synchronized with the start/finish line. That way, with a few
> calculations, cars across all the different groups could compete for the
> grand
> prize of speed and efficiency. This would open up a whole new level of
> bench
> engineering and I believe increase the public's interest in motor sport in
> general. Perhaps the results would be surprising, too!
> Steve P.
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