How to stop the carnage

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Permalink Reply by Eve ♫ on February 24, 2013 at 1:33am

that makes a lot of sense, motor.  i hope something is done to correct that flaw in the car's design. 

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Permalink Reply by tombo on February 24, 2013 at 1:51am

they could put "trunk flaps"  on them like the roof flaps to help.

 

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Permalink Reply by MoToR® on February 24, 2013 at 8:30am

Really? how would that work? No wind would ever get to them, there is a tail on the back that would block the air keeping them from ever deploying... the only way i see is to bring the back of the car to the ground to stop the wedge of air. I'm all ears if you have a serious suggestion or would like to expand on how this might work...

MoToR

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Permalink Reply by tombo on February 24, 2013 at 1:55am

another thing i noticed with this race and the last race a car went into the fence was keselowski.

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Permalink Reply by MoToR® on February 24, 2013 at 8:27am

you really ought to delete this post it makes you look like you don't think about what you say...

Blaming kes for this is pretty stupid. This is a serious topic that you failed to be serious about. The last time a car went into the catch fence was Brad and it was because Carl (A.K.A the jack ass) understood if you got a car backwards it would come off the ground. Before that it was Carl blocking, just like what Regan did.

Common scenarios are high speeds, car turned backwards and large packs... I can find a picture that looks just like the one on this post for every car that has gone into the catch fence. They all leave the ground when backwards...

MoToR

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Permalink Reply by tombo on February 24, 2013 at 8:27pm

it is the truth motor,keselowski has been involved in the last three so it dont make it look like idont know what to say,and the trunk flaps would work, i bet they do something like that to that back of the cars somewhere.

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Permalink Reply by MoToR® on February 24, 2013 at 9:00pm

I apologize, to me it came across as you were blaming Kes for this. This is not blaming a driver. you are right kes has been there in all of the last 3 but one was blocking, one was a cheap shot and the other was he just happened to be in the same area... So I really don't see any point in that comment. I did take it the wrong way though. 

I don't know how a trunk flap would work, being there is a fixed tail there to block any air from ever deploying it... one thing for sure is we hav e not seen the last of this until they figure out how to keep a backwards car on the track... 

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Permalink Reply by MoToR® on February 24, 2013 at 11:12am

Here is the last 2 to hit a catch fence. 

Just to make my point the back always goes up 1st. Keep the air out from under the light rear end and this will stop happening.. 

The bad effect could be that air would build under the back while traveling forward. This could be remedied by having a hinged flap across the bottom allow it to let air out until turned backwards where it would make a wall blocking the air from entering under the light rear end of this car.. 

This is a serious issue and I think wind testing should be done on these cars backwards, to see the true effect of the design of this car. We will continue to see this happen when cars at great speeds get turned around until this problem is tested and addressed. 

MoToR

 

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