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The sickness is strong...
So I'm out in the garage last night in my apartment complex, working on the Porsche, and I hear the rumbling of a truck, with the rattle of a trailer in tow. I look up just in time to see this guy in a big truck come screaming past, trailer just barely hanging on. He throws it around a corner and over a set of speed bumps, U-Haul trailer bouncing along behind.
 Hmmm, that was interesting, back to work.About 2 minutes later, he comes back around. I hear him coming, and zzoooosh, past he goes, hard around the corner, bouncing over the speed bump. I scratched my head, wondered for perhaps 2-3 nanoseconds what he was up to, then got back to tearing down my suspension. About 2 minutes, I hear him coming again. Zzzooosh, past he goes, hard around the corner and bouncing over the speed bump. My very next thought, honestly: "Gosh, his lap times aren't improving much; looks like his turn-in point on this corner is too late." And the thought immediately after that, in all seriousness: "I wonder what that trailer does to his line?" (shudder) Been reading too much Skip Barber...
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You've got the sickness. My inspiration was Alan Johnson's Driving in Competition -- early apex, mid-apex or late apex? FWIW, an unladen trailer behind a big truck wont do much... I used to pull a steel trailer with a 911 track car behind a 3,200 lb Jeep Cherokee, and I don't recommend it to anyone. When the trailer and tow vehicle weigh close to the same, the dynamics are, ah, challenging.
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with or without a cocanut?
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What if the coconut has golf-ball style aerodynamic dimples?
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depends also if the coconut hair has been aerodynamically shaved off as well
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You can actually corner faster with the unladen trailer. It acts the same as the tail of a kite, delaying the rear of the truck from stepping out of line.
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Now you've got me thinking: is this the next step in race-car development? Move non-essentials back to a towed trailer. Battery, gas, etc. that makes the actual car itself lighter. Better, add an engine to the trailer to make it self-propelled. Would that count against your own horsepower? What class would you race in? They'd have to make a new "trailer" class?
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you guys are all sick....SICK I TELL YOU.
now let's see...if I stay a bit tighter on 2 then track out here I can carry a bit more speed..... |
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