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Re: What will be the next technical growth leap for the average team?

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Originally Posted by frcguy View Post
Got somewhere where I can read about that car? Sounds cool and a bad idea at the same time.
Well, good question...that was back in the '70s when I was FRC age...without FRC, so I built racecars. I've searched but found nothing about it (sigh), ...that was back before Al Gore invented the internet...but to clarify it was a midget sprint. I saw it at a 1/2 mile dirt track in Wisconsin and saw this car perform...and the oil slick...and the hydraulic fluid on red hot headers...and the flames and smoke. Perhaps it was a local thing that they had to make a rule against after that event.

It was during the same era that Formula 1 was experimenting with 6 wheel cars...4 wheel steer. Yes, that was outlawed too, and documented.

Moral of the story - some technical leaps fall into deep deep holes.

http://jalopnik.com/5530175/the-life...eeled-race-car
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