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

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USAC once experimented with hydraulic 4WD sprint cars with the tubular frame as the reservoir. Perhaps someone thought that was a technical leap...well...until that first crash. But don't worry, things like that rarely happen in FRC, and especially not this year.
Got somewhere where I can read about that car? Sounds cool and a bad idea at the same time.
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Re: What will be the next technical growth leap for the average team?

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

Maybe not the biggest 'technological leap' but the kit drivetrains are vastly impoved even over the last 4 years.

Also, the FIRST alumni that have become mentors. Over the years the numbers have only increased. Experiance is extremely valuable.
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