Posted by paul on February 18, 2019 at 08:42:28 from (174.219.12.211):
In Reply to: Off Topic- Daytona 500 posted by Steve A W on February 17, 2019 at 22:00:13:
I miss the good old days.
When areodynamics kicked in big time to make the cars stick to the track in the 70s perhaps, into the 80s, the big high banks super speedways became a problem. The faster you go the more you stick to the track on them. So you just keep your foo down and you go faster and faster. But there has to be -some- bit of safety and control. On a normal track it is the corners that you have to slow down.
The high banked 2+ mile tracks, you don’t.
So, restrictor plates and other stuff has to be used to create what ends up being a boring single file follow the leader or group up in a pack race. If you pull out by yourself you don’t have enough power to do,anything but fall backwards. If a group of you pull out to pass it requires such close quarters to keep the speed up that someone gets in trouble and wipes,everyone out.
The nature of the beast.
There is no good way to fix it.
They would need to go back to racing stock cars with stock sheet metal so the cars don’t suck down onto the track; but they still would go too fast to be safe and need modifications and end up getting different sheet metal and..
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