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5 Sep 2000, 20:11 (Ref:35171)
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I was amazed once again to hear announcers bringing up yet another episode of a hung throttle. Why hasn't NASCAR put their foot down and forced the teams to permanently correct this situation? Bobby Labonte was thankfully uninjured in another stuck throttle tank slapper not dissimilar to some recent headline grabbers in the past. Is it a case of the drivers being stubborn or the teams being reluctant? Surely with all the engineering might at NASCAR's quick and easy reach they could come up with some sort of throttle closure device. I cannot imagine that any driver or team would argue against a throttle return, no one wants another Adam Petty or Kenny Irwin incident.
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5 Sep 2000, 22:27 (Ref:35194)
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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maybe it will take the death of an even bigger winston cup name before nascar do anything....i hope not ofcourse
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5 Sep 2000, 22:37 (Ref:35199)
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Cause if Nascar mandates something, it means they were wrong not to have done so earlier
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6 Sep 2000, 09:15 (Ref:35304)
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Join Date: May 1999
Posts: 1,370
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Did you guys miss this thread I posted awhile back?
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=3366 I don't understand what is going on with these throttles. Robby Gordon claimed his throttle stuck at the last Michigan race too. I am no expert but it seemed to me that NASCAR had solved the stuck throttle problem with these mandated rule changes. |
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6 Sep 2000, 15:54 (Ref:35354)
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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That's why this is so disturbing. Nascar mandates its solution and low and behold it doesn't work in most cases(it did work with ROb MOrgan, however). Which begs the question, why doesn't Nascar just nadate the system used by the mods. I dont understand the differences, but someone over at racecomm said that the mods' system was far superior to what Nascdar mandated and what Roush has developed.
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7 Sep 2000, 01:33 (Ref:35478)
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Racer
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 400
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Hopefully, a solution will be found soon, I'd hate to see us loose someone else. Intresting what Bobby LaBonte said (or didn't say) after the stuck throttle at Darlington, "this place has a little more room, the turns are not so sharp, much more sweeping. If this had of been at New Hampshire, I would have been uh...worse off than I was here!" He stopped just short of saying, dead!
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8 Sep 2000, 03:07 (Ref:35660)
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Rookie
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 84
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How exactly do you test these improvements anyway? It must be similar to the 1960s, when drivers were deliberately blowing tires for Goodyear and Firestone. Not the way to get favorable insurance premiums........
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9 Sep 2000, 04:15 (Ref:35919)
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Racer
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 400
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That, John B, is a fact!
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