- 1. Re: DRL's (Digest 3620) (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:28:22 EST
- tallight. Some cars have them installed now. IMHO, one of the worst damn things I have ever seen. Annoying as hell. They quit flashing after so many minutes on the brakes. Then they go steady. Until
- /html/autox/1999-12/msg00079.html (7,301 bytes)
- 2. Re: Stock or Modified(Street Prepared, Prepared, Mod, etc.)? (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:53:04 EST
- IMHO, stock class cars are much harder to get speed from than a modified or SP car. The same skills regarding smoothness and going slow are very important in all the classes, but driving a car with l
- /html/autox/1999-12/msg00398.html (8,533 bytes)
- 3. Re: CART Race content (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:49:45 EST
- No. None. They played it the same way for Krosnoff's crash. In an ominous way, it was the very lack of a replay that told the story before Dr. Olvey made the announcement. Mike Dickerson
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00004.html (6,493 bytes)
- 4. Re: Superspeedways (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:56:51 EST
- One wonders (at least I do), if the accident/injuries could have been reduced if the indise wall was at track edge, like on a street course, and like the outside wall. No launch, no flipping, no air.
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00020.html (8,314 bytes)
- 5. Re: Superspeedways (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:43:42 EST
- Who knows? mike
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00027.html (8,072 bytes)
- 6. Re: Greg Moore, my attitude today ;-( (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 20:28:33 EST
- Its not just you buddy, me too, us too, we too. And now PAyton. Christ, CART has been hammered and we are all loosing. My prayers to the Moore and Payton families Mike DIckerson
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00056.html (6,770 bytes)
- 7. Re: Superspeedways (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:37:49 EST
- They didn't say that exactly two years ago in Fontana when Blundel (???) or somebody qulified at over 240. Andretti and others, including the driver that did, said that the cars in the then current c
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00077.html (8,044 bytes)
- 8. Re: Superspeedways (not autocross) (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:54:31 EST
- Jim, In a purely mathematical world, yes. But accidents and death don't always happen according accepted understanding. Case in point: Jovey Marcelo was killed at Indy several years ago, on warm up l
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00079.html (7,079 bytes)
- 9. Re: Speedways and Greg Moore's hit (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:51:18 EST
- Paul, God knows I am not an expert, but Richie's impact did not subject him to the same forces. He hit relatively sideways-flat. So the energy got spread throughout the car. Greg Moore hit damn near
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00138.html (7,778 bytes)
- 10. Re: Speedways and Greg Moore's hit (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:45:44 EST
- Hell, Paul, this is understandable. And neither am I. I just finished writing my op-ed column for my regional newspaper, it was about this incident. It was good to get the writing out, but was still
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00142.html (8,011 bytes)
- 11. Re: Hey miata owners... (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:11:59 EST
- Make sure it is completely dry before folding down. Armor all probably wouldnt hurt, either. Mike DIckerson
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00447.html (6,743 bytes)
- 12. Re: Roll bars in SP (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:45:20 EST
- If so, the car must be prepares strictly to IT rules. No mixing and matching. Build it one way or the other. IMHO, a properly prepared race IT car sucks as a competitrve SP car. And Vice versa, or th
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00674.html (7,056 bytes)
- 13. Re: Woman's Global Challenge on Speedvision (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 18:26:45 EST
- Spell check was Okay, you spelled *A.R.E.* correctly. Mike Dickerson
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00688.html (6,899 bytes)
- 14. Re: Stock Category brake lines (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:43:21 EST
- Yes, they do. Better pedal feel, more consistent braking due to less flex. Definitely performance related as well as probably safer. Mike Dickerson
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00783.html (7,770 bytes)
- 15. Re: Y2K local schedules? (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:10:24 EST
- Our schedule right now is tentative, includes three regions, but we have an idea of dates. It is site dependent, howevre. This is the probblem a lot of regions face. If you don't own the site (like
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg00884.html (6,678 bytes)
- 16. Re: stripped interior in SP???? (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:26:02 EST
- Agreed. Any legal IT car is no way, no-how competitive against a legal SP car. Any body running an IT legal locked dif will tell you that. Can you say UNDERTSTEER? Mike D
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg01066.html (7,051 bytes)
- 17. Re: stripped interior in SP???? (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:57:45 EST
- OOPs. OK. Ignoranvce of the SP rules. But the fact the wheel width is so radically different is one other reason. PLus, if I reacll, battery location is allowed to be shifted in SP, and not in IT (wh
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg01084.html (6,984 bytes)
- 18. Re: RE DRL's (Digest 3620) (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:07:43 EST
- There is a variant now. Some idiots are installing flashing mechanisms for the third brake light. Talk about annoying! md
- /html/autox/1999-11/msg01286.html (6,596 bytes)
- 19. Re: EP Race- Runoffs (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:06:30 EDT
- << SCCA workers will do anything for a free lunch. >> Lunch, hell. It's the free beer! Mike
- /html/autox/1999-10/msg00624.html (6,485 bytes)
- 20. Re: SCCA Valvoline Runoffs (score: 1)
- Author: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:56:29 EDT
- << I never realized that in-car cameras were dependant on aircraft, i wonder if this is true of all in-car cameras. >> Yes it is, generally helicopters are used to bounce signal from ground to sateli
- /html/autox/1999-10/msg00696.html (8,133 bytes)
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