It’s very appropriate that Todd Bodine was chosen as an engineer for
NASCAR’s safety improvement program.
#1 – He’s an engineer.
#2 – He’s very familiar with crashes.
I wish him the best. I am very desirous for NASCAR to make the sport safer.
Softer walls would help.
On 21 Apr 2004 04:15:05 GMT, Steve Scott <ssco…@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>I think it’s Brett, not Todd.
Right.
And one of his tasks is to work on "the car of the future,"
which is supposed to help make the sport less expensive.
Wonder what will come of that? NASCAR-chassis?
Sheet-metal stamping plants? One-design engines?
Marty
"Steve Scott" <ssco…@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Gary Nelson was on Inside Nextel Cup last week (I think) and this was
> one of the things discussed. If I remember right one of his main
> points was if you said an average team needed $15M a year the car
> accounted for about $5M of that. So while they were looking at things
> to reduce car costs working on the $10M portion could yield better
> results.
I think he said the "Rule Book" takes up 5 million of it. That wouldn’t mean
the whole car, just the stuff you have to have on the car or a certain way
on the car to make it legal.
Michael
Steve Scott <ssco…@twcny.rr.com> wrote in
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> One of the things they’re looking at to reduce costs is engine RPMs.
> I think they said it cost about $1M to gain 100 RPM from where they’re
> at now. And either Gary or Ray Evernham this week mentioned they’re
> approaching 10,000 now.
Yes, I heard that to. It very much gave me the impression that
Nelson doesn’t have a clue, which is strange because as a crew
chief he was accounted one of the slyest. I suspect there’s
something unpopular planned, which Nelson was carefully skirting
around.
In any event, if you pass some rule limiting RPM, say a gear
rule, then everyone will just spend $1million to make power
some other way. The only reason they’re going after RPM now
is that it’s the easiest way (which means, if they pass a gear
rule, that everyone will be spending money for increasingly
smaller gains, and the cars will be more equal and more boring
than ever).
The only way they can prevent the teams from spending money on
trying to improve the engine is to require a spec engine, which
Nelson said they weren’t going to do.
John
The gear rule seems to work quite well on the Modified Tour. Soft walls have
worked well there for a decade. At least Brett Bodine knows modifieds
exist…….
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> Steve Scott <ssco…@twcny.rr.com> wrote in
> news:bh4d8096ed2sjncfg1nh669jml5p08i95l@4ax.com:
> > One of the things they’re looking at to reduce costs is engine RPMs.
> > I think they said it cost about $1M to gain 100 RPM from where they’re
> > at now. And either Gary or Ray Evernham this week mentioned they’re
> > approaching 10,000 now.
> Yes, I heard that to. It very much gave me the impression that
> Nelson doesn’t have a clue, which is strange because as a crew
> chief he was accounted one of the slyest. I suspect there’s
> something unpopular planned, which Nelson was carefully skirting
> around.
> In any event, if you pass some rule limiting RPM, say a gear
> rule, then everyone will just spend $1million to make power
> some other way. The only reason they’re going after RPM now
> is that it’s the easiest way (which means, if they pass a gear
> rule, that everyone will be spending money for increasingly
> smaller gains, and the cars will be more equal and more boring
> than ever).
> The only way they can prevent the teams from spending money on
> trying to improve the engine is to require a spec engine, which
> Nelson said they weren’t going to do.
> John