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09-20-05, 04:52 PM
CC tech director quoted by David Phillips (http://www.champcarworldseries.com/News/Article.asp?ID=9656)
"Because Las Vegas is basically a flat out race," Elkins continues, "we've set it on a timer. So one (application) will last ten seconds regardless of the throttle petal position."...
"So on a road course you can activate the power to pass and try to use that to do some overtaking going into a corner, because there's a braking zone or something like that. We don't have braking zones at Las Vegas, so this (ten second increments) seemed to be the most efficient way to use it."
Elkins believes applying the power-to-pass in ten second increments, and disengaging it by the timer rather than the conventional methods, will throw a new twist into race strategy.
I sure as hell hope there is a way to override the timer in extraordinary circumstances. What happens if the driver needs to lift and brake when coming up on an accident?
On a more positive note, Elkins has been paying attention to the chassis rake induced problems in IRL setups:
"Because it is our only speedway oval," says Elkins, "we've created a ..maximum front ride height rule so that they can only raise the nose up a particular amount and we've limited the amount of right rear camber they're allowed to run."
Other than that it's road course front and rear wings and the oval low downforce tunnels just like last year:
"The rear wing, the main plane and the flap are exactly the same (as street and road courses) and are required to be in exactly the same configuration as on a road or street course. But what we've done is reduced the size of the endplate. It is a very specified endplate and must fit a template."
The smaller endplates will probably reduce the effectivess of the rear wing somewhat and let some more turbulent air spill off the airfoil. Note that "exactly the same configuration as on a road or street course" seems to preclude running a negative angle of attack the way IRL cars do at Indy. Too bad they don't all have the old speedway aero pieces. I'd like to see the speedway nose wings with that rear.
"Because Las Vegas is basically a flat out race," Elkins continues, "we've set it on a timer. So one (application) will last ten seconds regardless of the throttle petal position."...
"So on a road course you can activate the power to pass and try to use that to do some overtaking going into a corner, because there's a braking zone or something like that. We don't have braking zones at Las Vegas, so this (ten second increments) seemed to be the most efficient way to use it."
Elkins believes applying the power-to-pass in ten second increments, and disengaging it by the timer rather than the conventional methods, will throw a new twist into race strategy.
I sure as hell hope there is a way to override the timer in extraordinary circumstances. What happens if the driver needs to lift and brake when coming up on an accident?
On a more positive note, Elkins has been paying attention to the chassis rake induced problems in IRL setups:
"Because it is our only speedway oval," says Elkins, "we've created a ..maximum front ride height rule so that they can only raise the nose up a particular amount and we've limited the amount of right rear camber they're allowed to run."
Other than that it's road course front and rear wings and the oval low downforce tunnels just like last year:
"The rear wing, the main plane and the flap are exactly the same (as street and road courses) and are required to be in exactly the same configuration as on a road or street course. But what we've done is reduced the size of the endplate. It is a very specified endplate and must fit a template."
The smaller endplates will probably reduce the effectivess of the rear wing somewhat and let some more turbulent air spill off the airfoil. Note that "exactly the same configuration as on a road or street course" seems to preclude running a negative angle of attack the way IRL cars do at Indy. Too bad they don't all have the old speedway aero pieces. I'd like to see the speedway nose wings with that rear.