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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Mike
> Crumley
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 5:22 PM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Re: DMLNazis at Indy
>
>
> At 04:27 PM 9/24/98 , you wrote:
>
> >I think a turbine car at Indy also showed how well this
> >could work.The nazis at Indy
> >fixed that by requiring the turbines to breathe thru a
> >smaller opening than the "correctly"
> >engined cars could use.
>
> That turbine car that ran Indy that one year just flat ran away from the
> rest of the field. The only reason it didn't win going away is that it
> broke before it finished the race. Your "nazis at Indy" restricted the
> intake opening in order to make it more fair for everybody. It's the same
> reason they allowed different engine designs to run different amounts of
> turbo boost, to try to make competition more fair for everybody. I agree
> that there have been plenty of times that they have legislated away
> technology that would have made for much more interesting race cars, but
> this isn't one of those instances. Boy, this discussion sure makes me
> nostalgic for the good old days when Indy was a real race and not this IRL
> crapola.
>
>
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