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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Beach CA, the sewer by the sea.
Posts: 38,165
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I don't feel sorry for Graham. He's past his prime and was no Bobby ever. But what I don't understand is why a well funded team sucks like that. They need to clean house and get new engineers. I think I even see a fault with their set up.
Now that I've said that, I'd better explain to get others ideas. Seems like some cars are not cross weighted as much. IOW, they aren't biased to turn left as much as others. From a NASCAR perspective, Daytona and Talladega cars roll very easily and are set up to run straight. The high banking turns the cars. Put too much bias in the set up, and sure it turns better, but isn't as free. I could even hear the RLL cars bogging. With equal sealed engines this should not be the case. Something is holding those cars back and you can see how much right hand steering goes into going down the long straights. Dixon's car doesn't need that much counter steering, as just one example of cameras showing steering input for various drivers.
As I mentioned earlier, there was a time in history when a car that wouldn't get it done was trailered and another sent out in its place. I wonder how RLL drivers would have done in Ganassi cars. There is something wrong because all the cars are exactly the same when delivered new.
Time to clean house. Yeah, Foyt cars have been the dogs for awhile and now are running fast. I wonder who made that work.
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