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Sick and Tired of Racing safety bias
I for one am sick and tired of the bias in professional motor racing toward mamby-pamby candy-a$$ed safety at the expense of performance/speed.
Examples: Indy Car: pit-lane speed limits & black-flags for blocking NASCAR: pit lane speed limits, black flags for blocking, forced wing dimensions, constant part limitations to equalize cars to remove any engineering innovation, idiotic intake restrictor plates to limit top speeds on largest tracks. NHRA: reduction of drag race distance to 1000' from the 1/4 mile in Top Fuel and Funny Car classes. Formula One gets it RIGHT ! Hole shot race starts, NO full-course yellow flags (limited to maybe 1 or 2 curves), no pit speed limits (slingshot in and out!) like all other leagues used to be, no 'competition cautions' EVER to equalize the field. I honestly would like ALL racing leagues to return to their 'outlaw' roots where caution/safety are thrown to the wind for all out performance/speed NO MATTER THE COST. That WOULD get more fans. NASCAR should EMBRACE brawls in the pits, not ostracize them. NOT JOKING. If you can't take the HEAT, GET OUTTA THE KITCHEN. I for one would have ZERO problem with leagues having ZERO safety device requirements. If a driver wants to run a NO roll-cage death-trap with no helmet during the Daytona 500 to gain a weight advantage, it should be completely within his purview.
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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!! Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't ! Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY. ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC ! |
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