[Ducati] Of weights and measures (was Jerez GP testing 800's)

[Ronald Betts]

Wow Dude, that was a great link. Sure did bring back some flashbacks....!



Peace...Ron"Desmohead"Betts 95 900 SP
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>From: "Mike Suranyi" <msuranyi at niello.com>
>Reply-To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
>To: "'Ducati Owners Group'" <ducati at ducati.net>
>Subject: RE: [Ducati] Of weights and measures (was Jerez GP testing 800's)
>Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:26:09 -0800
>
>I'm not sure if it was an Audi that flipped at Road Atlanta, but I do
>remember seeing one of Porsche's 911GT1's do a back flip there.  And who 
>can
>forget the pair of CLK GTR's at Le Mans?  No wonder they retired them.
>
>As far as the Chaparral 2J (sucker car), it actually had a pair of fans
>driven by a 275cc snowmobile engine and sucking the air out the back of the
>car.  Too bad the car was having "issues" at the Historics.  I don't think
>they were getting full suck-age from it during the exhibition laps.
>
>Here's a pretty cool site with some really good shots of the car.
>http://www.mulsannescorner.com/chaparral2j.html
>
>That is all...
>
>DucMike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ducati-bounces at ducati.net [mailto:ducati-bounces at ducati.net] On 
>Behalf
>Of rich lambrechts
>Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:52 PM
>To: Ducati Owners Group
>Subject: Re: [Ducati] Of weights and measures (was Jerez GP testing 800's)
>
>
>
>The Brabham was one of many...but at noted  Jim hall's Chaparral's probably
>the most famous..  had ducted fans pointing upward  to draw the car down
>and as many cars that followed even had sliding skirts that ran front to
>back riding on the pavement that would move up and down as the car traveled
>on it's suspension.  A friend of mine has one of the cars come to think of
>it.  Williams and some others even used the skirts on F1 cars and those too
>were eventually banned.
>
>Through the years many cool aerodynamic things were tried....like moveable
>panels for airbrakes ( Mercedes) and moveable wings too on F5000 in
>particular...  they were particularly exciting when the thing malfunctioned
>or the driver got it wrong and the wing went up into a lift mode as opposed
>to downforce.
>
>Ground effects are really interesting when you consider an old Indy car  (
>rememebr how cool they were before Tony George screwed that all up and made
>them "spec cars") and generated enough downforce such that they could run
>inverted  ( IE on the ceiling) at speed.  The down side is that once you
>disturb them or pass the limits....the situation is irreversable and  the
>crashes are as nasty as they get. Remember the Audi LM a few yearsback  
>that
>went skyward several stories high after cresting the "hump" ( now gone) on
>the old Road Atlanta back straight?
>
>rich lambrechts
>
>
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