try rev your average V8 to 9000rpm for 500 miles and see what will happens to it~
NASCAR does has technology, it just prefer to do things the old fashioned way, in terms of their pushrod V8...
try rev your average V8 to 9000rpm for 500 miles and see what will happens to it~
NASCAR does has technology, it just prefer to do things the old fashioned way, in terms of their pushrod V8...
ya, old fashioned way.
it is very sexy for who is just love car, but, for me, I would like that racing should help the auto car technology today & tomorrow, autoracing is not just a sports, but also a laboratory.
I heard that CCWS actually did go bankrupt.
In either case... This still pisses me off. Even moreso since Toronto and Mont Tremblant were wiped from the schedule. Thanks TG, you prick.
In either case... This still pisses me off. Even moreso since Toronto and Mont Tremblant were wiped from the schedule. Thanks TG, you prick.
What if those races were not economically viable? I doubt they were, both series were pretty dead but CCWS needed the life support machine more. Better to merge now than merge a few years down the line when both series have four cars racing.
umm... so you reckon a 18,000rpm 2.4 V8 will finds it way into cars we actually drive~?
lets face it, motor-racing is a show, and a business, and a massively huge waste of resources, both in terms of fuel and guys working 24/7 to improve things by curving certain part of a car slightly differently... these are of no use for the road...
Then you must not like V8 Supercars :P IMO racing's more about competition than the technology, as long as it's not extremely low like pintos (which NASCAR/ARCA is not) than I'm fine but that's just me
They're adding more and more stuff to it each season
Agreed. I do like ALMS, but NASCAR will get stronger regardless because of all the open wheel attention (hornish, franchitti, villeneuve, carpentier)
If we just watch the race, NASCAR & V8 is very exciting
but, if we open the corver, it is a very useless machine
if you really could "open the cover", you will take exactly what you just said and stuff it right back into your mouth~
Do they plan on bringing fuel injection in? I mean, it was first used in the 50s and it's not as if it's impossible to police TC if you have EFI (F1 is doing it well with a spec ECU). They could even use direct injection.
NASCAR units push out about 700hp IIRC. Does anyone know how long they go before rebuilds? Or how long a V8Supercars unit goes before a rebuild?
I imagine Nascar engines get rebuilt after each race weekend.
More or less Ben, they use completely different engines weekend to weekend, the whole thing gets stripped down, then rebuilt and put into the "que" if you will.
And its closer to the region of 850-880 HP now days.
And its closer to the region of 850-880 HP now days.
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