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Re: Pylon penalties

To: John Kelly <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Pylon penalties
From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@harlie.idsfa.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:46:33 -0700
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:11:16PM -0400, John Kelly wrote:
>      "I couldn't believe that we bent our suspension on a rubber cone at
> 60 miles per >>hour," Bell said. "It was my mistake and such a stupid way
> to end."

The worst cone penalty I know of was a few years ago at the Monterey
Historic Auto Races.  A Ferrari LeMans prototype car ran over a cone
exiting turn 11, and it tore a huge chunk out of the top of the front
fender.  

I would take 2 seconds over that any day.

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john@idsfa.net                                              John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/                              HMC Physics '94




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