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Dapprman:
--- Quote ---Kyuzo, I call BS. Why do you feel the need to impress people by claiming to have a sub-10 second car? I don't see a roll bar (required by any 1/4 mile track on cars that break 12s), and that interior doesn't look stripped at all. Those tires don't even look to be 245mm wide; I wonder if that car is even turbocharged. How about some engine bay shots?
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Sorry Scotty but you're possibly talking BS. In the UK a roll-cage is not a requirement, just a recomendation. Added to this - are you sure he doesn't have one in his car - it's hard to tell.
Just_J:
Going by his language (said roommate, not flat mate) it sounds like he's from the states, and Scotty's right. To run on an NHRA licensed track, you have to have a roll cage for the speed's he's clocking. If you break the rollcage time once, they warn you, do it again, and they remove you from the track if your car doesn't fit safety regs. I can't see one in the car, but it's hard to tell.
JC:
I have nicknamed roll cages deathtraps, since every experience with one in a crash hasn't ever worked out...
Maybe it was just bad design, although I doubt it, considering they had been inspected by an engineer before the races, but they didn't work at all when you hit the barrier (K rail for people who want to know... It's a BIG concrete slab, steel reinforced... Even tanks can't get through them, and even have a hard time putting a hole in them with a shell), it seemed to do stuff all...
Car was doing roughly 160mph on a 300m straight just before a 45 degree right branch, got around there easily enough, started to brake down for a 90 degree left, cornered, hit a patch of oil, and just went sideways (drivers side), into the wall... Driver walked away, but the rollcage, the car, was about half the width of when we started (I was annoyed, spent 8 hours tuning the damn suspension :/)
Oh well, another 9 months untill we get another race spec car :/
chichin0:
Sounds like the rollcage did its job if he walked away from that nasty of a crash...
CooBlueDAB:
modified because I confused JC for the so called owner of the rice bucket.
Me = Loves the LE for giving me ID
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