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Post by noonesfan18 on Jun 5, 2020 14:15:32 GMT -8
This is could be labeled as pornogrphic. Viewer discretion (and listening) advised.
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Post by Carlo_Carrera on Jun 6, 2020 6:33:41 GMT -8
That resonating howl as they disappear into the distance is intoxicating.
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Post by montybriscoe on Jun 8, 2020 15:01:57 GMT -8
Group C cars were badass. Was the 1988 the last year with the Mulsanne left intact before adding the kink or chicane? I know that the Sauber Mercedes had some blow overs one year there, maybe that was 1987. Jo Gartner was killed in 1986, I think, when his 962 wound up in the trees at like 2 am in the morning.
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Post by noonesfan18 on Jun 8, 2020 16:09:00 GMT -8
Group C cars were badass. Was the 1988 the last year with the Mulsanne left intact before adding the kink or chicane? I know that the Sauber Mercedes had some blow overs one year there, maybe that was 1987. Jo Gartner was killed in 1986, I think, when his 962 wound up in the trees at like 2 am in the morning. After 1989 Mulsanne had the chicanes put in. Mostly because the drivers demanded it because the cars were going to fast. It came to a head when a private Peugeot team decided to just build a car that was only built to down Mulsanne because "nobody had done it yet." The car, a WM P87 with Roger Dorchy behind the wheel went out for a few laps (after being in the pits for 3 hours to fix the engine) then turned the turbo's up to the max (F1 cars ran about 5 bar of boost at the time, so that is within the realm of reason) and went down the Mulsanne straight at about 252mph (405km/h). The engine then blew up after word. That record still stands to this day.
Cars still toke off though, A couple of the Mercs in the late 1990's toke flight. Mark Weber was one of the guys who left the ball park. But i think that was how the cars were built and/or set-up.
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Post by montybriscoe on Jun 8, 2020 16:22:34 GMT -8
Mercedes CLRs in 1999 had a severe areo lift problem with the frontend. Mark Webber had two blow overs. The second one in the race warmup, left Webber saying no more and the car was withdrawn. In the race, Peter Dumbreck had the spectacular blow over into the trees and his car landed in a clearing. Dumbreck survived. After that, Mercedes withdrew the remaining car. They tried to put on some winglets onto the front end to help keep the CLR planted but to no avail. The car became flighty whenever it hit a crest or bump in the road. I think drivers might have been told to stay out of another car's slipstream. Dumbreck was following a Toyota GT-1 when his car took off.
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