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August 19, 2022 at
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Does having a winged sprint car pass another on the straightaway cause the slower car to get squirrely? That's how it appears in watching Knoxville Nationals footage. The best place to see it is when Schatz laps a black car on the last lap. What do you think?
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August 19, 2022 at
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Yes. In clean air, the wing feels like it has big giant hand holding the car onto the track. When the air gets taken away, the car can feel like it's trying to jump up off the track as the springs unload and the geometry changes really quickly.
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August 20, 2022 at
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And Hayden that's when they started to enclose the cockpits around the driver and for good reason being on a mile track. Some of the cars at the moody mile looked like they came off a pavement track. The strip of aluminum under the wings where to try and settle the turbulent air under the wings.
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August 22, 2022 at
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Have you ever seen the Video of Sammy Swindell at Syracuse when his front Wing Mounts let go on the Front stretch at full speed (Think it was the TMC car). Man that thing started taking off like an Airplane leaving the runway! Broke the suspension but he stuck the landing LOL. Pretty amazing it didn't turn out worse than what it did.
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August 23, 2022 at
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Haven't seen it in a while, Probably just have to do some searching. I want to say it was when TNN had the "American Sports Cavalcade" Series.
Was never much of a TNN Fan! Probably because about the same time they started broadcasting the Naitionals, The Wet T-Shirt contests went away! LOL.
Not a whole lot of Aerodynamic side panels back in them days. You could still see the driver pretty good. Especially with those rinky dink Aluminum or STN STL seats they use to have in their cars. No comparison to todays standards.
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August 23, 2022 at
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Posted By: Paintboss on August 23 2022 at 11:37:04 AM
Haven't seen it in a while, Probably just have to do some searching. I want to say it was when TNN had the "American Sports Cavalcade" Series.
Was never much of a TNN Fan! Probably because about the same time they started broadcasting the Naitionals, The Wet T-Shirt contests went away! LOL.
Not a whole lot of Aerodynamic side panels back in them days. You could still see the driver pretty good. Especially with those rinky dink Aluminum or STN STL seats they use to have in their cars. No comparison to todays standards.
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If you find it, would you post a link please? I tried looking around the internets for it. All I found was a lot of videos of Sammy Swindell being crabby.
Related note, sort of. I recall reading an article in Open Wheel Magazine about a racer who was also a pilot. He was using his interest of airplane aerodynamics to streamline his sprint car at a WoO race as Syracuse. That racer was Jeff Swindell.
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August 23, 2022 at
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Well, to be fair, in all the videos he seemed to be of the mind that whatever had transpired, it was someone else's fault.
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