Re: LRS vrs. NAS.CAR technology
How come you guys are talking about LSR when the topic was CLEARLY LRS?
Oh, and is vrs. the same as versus or vs. or v.? (vs. and v. are acceptable for versus.)
And I think it's NAS
CAR not NAS.CAR.
Somebody mentioned that the NAS
CAR rules were archaic. NAS
CAR rules have always been about leveling the playing field to get better racing. Cheating has gotten more publicity mostly because NAS
CAR is the big dog in racing. There is cheating in all forms of racing, yes, including LSR.
Comparing it to LSR? Why? The rules in NAS
CAR didn't evolve around the fastest possible platform, but the one that would give the best racing.
F1 is technology wonder land. Where else do you see different body work designed just for that particular race track. The F1 exhaust system is designed to last one race and get replaced. They have three guy that do nothing but exhaust systems. But racing? Not in F1 there are more passes made in the pits then there are on the track.
The Honda F1 team took a whack at Bonneville and had all sorts of problems. But if anybody put an F1 budget to LSR than anything would be possible.
Saying that the the Herbert team is going to go 500 mph is as much fantasy as saying 5,000 mph. Aerodynamics can't be that much better than the Poteet/Main car, and probably not as good. Horsepower has never been a problem, getting it to the ground has been. The coefficient of friction isn't going to change no matter what they do. The Poteet/Main car I'm pretty sure has a very advanced traction control, and the Herbert car better have one too.
Unless you are going to bolt a thrust motor to it you still have to accelerate through the tires. 500 mph takes an increasingly longer chuck of territory that just isn't available. No matter how much money, science, technology and voodoo you pour into the project you still can't go out and get testing time, can you?
How long did it take the Burkland team? It takes some kind of dedication to stick around year after year battling demons to get over night success. I wonder how many total passes the Burkland team has made over the last 12 years. It took Gene 11 years before the first pass, 4 years to break 400. And don't forget the years were there were no runs because of bad salt or rebuilding.