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Article #904OT Re: NASCAR engineers never would have allowed Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia to take off. "If that bird ain't safe, w...
From: Anne D.
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:39
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:39
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> No, you have the usual uninformed view of NASCAR. Were you to throw off > your vision of redneck bubbas running around in old moonshining cars you > would discover that NASCAR engineeers are just that...engineers. > Mechanical engineers, and damned good ones at that. Just how do you think > that the drivers are abla to survive crashes at the near 200 mph speeds > that they drive these days? Because of duct tape? Not likely. Those cars > are engineered to withstand the punishment that 500 miles of 200 mph > racing dishes out. Think your Monte Carlo would do that? It wouldn't > even get near those speeds and if it were to crash would end up in a ball > of cruched metal, and YOU wouldn't survive. I think you owe the engineers > of NASCAR an apology, and you owe yourself some real research into what it > takes to build one of those cars. Taint easy, you know. > > JimC Jim, dude, we're poking fun at you. Stop taking yourself so seriously, ok? What were you expecting, posting this off-topic stuff to such an odd variety of newsgroups? Ask the Earnhart and Allison families how safe they think it is to ride at 200+ mph in a NASCAR vehicle. Anne D. <--was there at Pocono the day Bobby Allison wrecked for the last time.
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