Stupid Automatic Transmission

[Mike Rotch]

Originally posted by NOS supra
you don't have good times thats why.

I dont have any times in fact. Thats is because I can actually drive a car around a track.

It is most likely you are too lame to post a decent track time, and instead resort to sprints.

EDIT: I refer you to the SEARCH feature that will reveal that this thread is old and has been covered extensively in the past

 

[NOS supra]

what are your track times dip****

 

[Der Alta]

NOS Supra Being a new memeber I'm going to remind you that you just signed the Acecptable Use Policy when you registered here at this site. In reviewing your posts to date, you're not abiding by it.

Please clikc the link in my signature and re-read it. Please adjust your attitude to comply.

Thanks,

AO

 

[NOS supra]

I was just a little under the weather

 

[xs57]

WRC cars use semi-auto sequential boxes, and when the revs hit the limiter they automatically shift up, Le Mans cars have auto boxes too.

 

[ixphant0mxi]

use manual! imo: better performance, and best of all - more fun! since when have you ever seen a true racing car wito an autobox? laf

JIM HALL used a auto tranny in his chaperel race cars for CAN -AM racing in the late 60's and early 70's when asked why he used a auto transmission he said" i can conentrate on driving and not worry about what gear i need to be in " he is also the father of modern day ground effects he was the first person to ever us a wing on a car these were later outlawed in CAN_AM due to people copying his wings but not being as careful with the way they mounted them and many crashes were the cause of the wing coming off he later used a large vacumm device to "suck" the car to the track thjis was also outlawed as the CAN_AM officals declared this as a type of wing

 

[ixphant0mxi]

just for those whom might not belive me heres jim halls "sucker" car The last U.S. road racing Chaparral was the 2J, a boxy design that hid an innovation so potentially successful that it resulted in the car being banned. The Chaparral 2J, affectionately known as the "Sucker Car," sported a snowmobile engine attached to two fans that sucked air from the bottom of the car and pushed it out the back. This created a vacuum that held the Chaparral 2J to the track like it was on rails. Although it raced only four times, not long enough to work out some of its "bugs," the 2J gave warning to competitors that it would be unbeatable when its reliability problems were solved. Unfortunately for Jim Hall, however, the FIA, the international race sanctioning body, banned the 2J because it used "illegal moving aerodynamic devices."

 

[crb]

Now that was some good old fashion car racing.