Edgar Hansen approves this car.

Deadliest Catch sponsorship?

whip2 - 18 May 2008 10:14 AM

Wait a minute. Just a few months ago, this board was lit up with complaints about how the teams couldn't work on the cars, and how bad the cars raced. Everyone said NASCAR should do something to fix it! Now, the teams "worked" the cars, and they race better, but NASCAR should do something because they look funny?

Yes.

Its all about how the car looks, after all.

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 10:28 AM

Yes.

Its all about how the car looks, after all.

Careful, GGB! That cracking sound you hear is the thin ice you're on after your frequent condemnation of how the "twisted sister" car looked.

J. - 19 May 2008 12:07 PM

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 10:28 AM

Yes.

Its all about how the car looks, after all.

Careful, GGB! That cracking sound you hear is the thin ice you're on after your frequent condemnation of how the "twisted sister" car looked.

Anything I've ever said about the aero-monstrosity's looks was in response to people griping about the way the COT looks.

I've also said repeatedly that I didn't care if the cars looked like something my kids built out of their Legos as long as it raced well.

The COT has the races well part down for the plate tracks, the shorter tracks, and the road courses. Racing well on the mile-an-a-half will come in time.

J. - 19 May 2008 12:07 PM

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 10:28 AM

Yes.

Its all about how the car looks, after all.

Careful, GGB! That cracking sound you hear is the thin ice you're on after your frequent condemnation of how the "twisted sister" car looked.

+1

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 01:07 PM

J. - 19 May 2008 12:07 PM

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 10:28 AM

Yes.

Its all about how the car looks, after all.

Careful, GGB! That cracking sound you hear is the thin ice you're on after your frequent condemnation of how the "twisted sister" car looked.

Anything I've ever said about the aero-monstrosity's looks was in response to people griping about the way the COT looks.

I've also said repeatedly that I didn't care if the cars looked like something my kids built out of their Legos as long as it raced well.

The COT has the races well part down for the plate tracks, the shorter tracks, and the road courses. Racing well on the mile-an-a-half will come in time.

Were you not the one on these boards last year telling us that this wing would reduce aeropush.

Redfish - 19 May 2008 03:38 PM

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 01:07 PM

J. - 19 May 2008 12:07 PM

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 10:28 AM

Yes.

Its all about how the car looks, after all.

Careful, GGB! That cracking sound you hear is the thin ice you're on after your frequent condemnation of how the "twisted sister" car looked.

Anything I've ever said about the aero-monstrosity's looks was in response to people griping about the way the COT looks.

I've also said repeatedly that I didn't care if the cars looked like something my kids built out of their Legos as long as it raced well.

The COT has the races well part down for the plate tracks, the shorter tracks, and the road courses. Racing well on the mile-an-a-half will come in time.

Were you not the one on these boards last year telling us that this wing would reduce aeropush.

It was designed to. But, again, you never know what is going to happen in real-world application. This car has done a lot of unexpected things.

And we don't know that the spoiler version didn't push more in the testing.

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 04:39 PM

Redfish - 19 May 2008 03:38 PM

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 01:07 PM

J. - 19 May 2008 12:07 PM

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 10:28 AM

Yes.

Its all about how the car looks, after all.

Careful, GGB! That cracking sound you hear is the thin ice you're on after your frequent condemnation of how the "twisted sister" car looked.

Anything I've ever said about the aero-monstrosity's looks was in response to people griping about the way the COT looks.

I've also said repeatedly that I didn't care if the cars looked like something my kids built out of their Legos as long as it raced well.

The COT has the races well part down for the plate tracks, the shorter tracks, and the road courses. Racing well on the mile-an-a-half will come in time.

Were you not the one on these boards last year telling us that this wing would reduce aeropush.

It was designed to. But, again, you never know what is going to happen in real-world application. This car has done a lot of unexpected things.

And we don't know that the spoiler version didn't push more in the testing.

The teams have said that the car was going to be junk ever since the first tests. And unless they change the rules the cars will not get better on the 1.5 milers. It's just elementary physics.

3KillerBs - 19 May 2008 04:39 PM

Redfish - 19 May 2008 03:38 PM

Were you not the one on these boards last year telling us that this wing would reduce aeropush.

It was designed to. But, again, you never know what is going to happen in real-world application. This car has done a lot of unexpected things.

Which is one reason you don't spend years and millions of dollars trying to come up with some kind of brand new design that will cost a fortune to implement and act like it'll fix every problem you've ever encountered, cause there's a thing called Murphy's Law and also the Law of Unintended Consequences, meaning you may have spent a lot of money trying to fix certain problems that only causes new problems.

I mean, here we are three months into this car's exclusive use, and we're already going to be looking at a midseason rules change most likely, which this new car design was supposed to eliminate. At least maybe this episode will teach NASCAR they can't account for everything and really shouldn't even try in the future. Teams are always going to look in every nook and cranny to find an advantage to win with, and that will never change. Standardize and commonize everything you want, all you are doing is forcing the teams to spend more money to look for even more special and odd ways to go faster, cause they don't want someone else to beat them.