A senseless open door policy on our border that Biden created unnecessarily.

RB 60 said:
What makes you think I don't have an interest in it? I like open wheel cars.

Yes, me too. I crashed it and took to the ground with the COX .049 powered dune buggy and an Army jeep that I rigged to pull a Big Bang cannon. Good old days.

Nah, the discussion got boring.
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The other races I like are the prototypes.
 
jet57 said:
The other races I like are the prototypes.
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I like series that have all or most of the American manufacturers. NASCAR used to be I-T it when it came to popularity until Chrysler walked away. That sucked.
It's become a spectacle now, they're even trying to hang someone from a garage door pull rope. OMG! RACIST!!
I really like the road course racers too. I have a replica of an old one.

I could go on about drag racing, but you should know what I mean.
 
RB 60 said:
I like series that have all or most of the American manufacturers. NASCAR used to be I-T it when it came to popularity until Chrysler walked away. That sucked.
It's become a spectacle now, they're even trying to hang someone from a garage door pull rope. OMG! RACIST!!
I really like the road course racers too. I have a replica of an old one.

I could go on about drag racing, but you should know what I mean.
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Yeah, I know about drag racing. It's where I lived for some years and used to hang with Don Prudhomme at the track. I like Formula 1 and try and keep up.
 
jet57 said:
Yeah, I know about drag racing. It's where I lived for some years and used to hang with Don Prudhomme at the track. I like Formula 1 and try and keep up.
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Those F-1 cars are probably the most technologically advanced (not necessarily the fastest) cars on the planet. Each car has it's own engineering team.
 
RB 60 said:
Those F-1 cars are probably the most technologically advanced (not necessarily the fastest) cars on the planet. Each car has it's own engineering team.
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And you've just hit on why I find modern racing a little grating: it's not about man and machine anymore; that sense of feeling your engine and your car: that sense of touch... It's all bout computers and their protocols and what rates they're trying to hit. The drag tracks have lost 300 feet, which is why they're running 4 seconds now and the cars don't really smoke the tires anymore. It makes older guys like me wish for the competitive old days.
 
jet57 said:
And you've just hit on why I find modern racing a little grating: it's not about man and machine anymore; that sense of feeling your engine and your car: that sense of touch... It's all bout computers and their protocols and what rates they're trying to hit. The drag tracks have lost 300 feet, which is why they're running 4 seconds now and the cars don't really smoke the tires anymore. It makes older guys like me wish for the competitive old days.
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I'm with you. I'm an auto enthusiast. I'm a Ford man. If there's a race and a Ford is in it I watch. I don't care who's driving, I want a Ford to win. I like road course racing, Don't matter what's in it.
Yeah, all the computers take the mechanic and driver pretty much out of it. A few years ago the Grove had the Nostalgia Funny Cars and Gassers. Those things were so cool, and primitive. Sitting with a transmission and a real clutch between your legs starring at an unsecured blower. Them guys had balls. I like today's horsepower, but not the electronics and timers.
 
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