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2/19/18, 4:38 PM |
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I'd imagine tire inner liners arnt used on passenger cars due to the fact they are totally not needed. Most passenger cars drive well under 200 mph and the passenger car tires are built much heavier also. I could be wrong but arnt the liners used to reduce the sudden air lose in a tire in a blow out situation ?
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2/19/18, 4:58 PM |
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2/19/18, 5:00 PM |
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2/19/18, 5:04 PM |
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Still may give more control to a car with a narrow side wall since you'll have a bigger contact patch that just the rim, but not as big a deal as truck or SUV. |
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2/19/18, 5:24 PM |
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I watched only the last 10 laps of the race. In that time I saw 2 'big ones' and DW cackling like a hyena after one of them. I was glad Dillon won rather than Hamlin. Dillon visited Jimmy McEleath during a NASCAR swing through Texas a few years back. They made each other's day. I will never forget that. But not long after the checker fell I turned it off. Dillon did bump Almirola but with these restrictor plate races, had Dillon, or anyone else lifted off the throttle they'd be shuffled back 20 positions before you can say boogityboogityboogity, hence the big one.
I've been a race fan for over 50 years. It hurts to see one sprint car junked as a result of a flip. To see more than a couple dozen cars wadded up and I'm headed for the exit. If I have nothing on the agenda I will tune in on the Atlanta race, or the first real race of the NASCAR cup season.
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2/19/18, 5:29 PM |
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There are two common themes in your posts. One is it's clearly apparent that you are a disgruntled former CART employee and two, it's becoming apparent that you've boned up on just enough marketing theories as to readily tell other folks how they should just keep ponying up more in discretionary funds to attend elective attractions and shut up and be happy about it or quit attending! That whole concept is part of every marketing course available in every college marketing department in the world. Quote:
We happily, patiently and faithfully fulfilled our ticket obligation guidelines both monetary and procedural to the letter and we did all that without reservation or malice, that is until the huge short term increases. No one is forcing us to continue. Luckily, we're in position to pay the additional 45% Mr. Boles and his staff enacted upon us. Percentage-wise the huge increases were laid on the most desirable seats and that was positively done for obvious reasons. It took us 32 years to get our present seating location and we, along with most other folks, will grudgingly knuckle under and pay it. You go tacking a 45% short term increase onto a seat that isn't all that great to begin with and most folks will say to hell with it and watch it on television. As I said, fortunately we have the monetary ability to cough up the money to attend, even over the long haul and probably will attend as long as we are physically able, and my wife and I are relatively young at this point. On the up side, every May we position our camper for 4 nights at the home of some good friends just 3 blocks from The Speedway and it costs us a fraction of what The Speedway gets for camping and we can set in my seats and eat our own food and drink a few of our own beers. That is a couple of the monetary aspects of the whole experience that we're grateful for. What it all ultimately boils down to for us is whether the price has yet exceeded the total entertainment value. Obviously it hasn't..............yet. However, it did at Daytona. But once in a while a little venting is necessary.
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2/20/18, 12:09 AM |
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The flag deal was just one more thing, one last turning of the back on the Gen X fan base and older. It was just another facet to their move to be politically correct and further distance themselves from the fanbase they no longer wish to associate with. I'm a firm believer in dancing with the one that brought you, but Lil France had his eye on another date, a younger date. So he ditched his loyal dance partner to pursue the new, but new wasn't interested. So Lil France tried changing his image, ditched all his old friends and stopped returning family phone calls. He started running with the SJW crowd, glad handing the tree huggers, allowing smart phones and other electronic devices on the cars. Still little Miss Millennial wants nothing to do with Lil France, so he promotes reverse discrimination(Drive 4 Diversity), bring in pretty spokes models to drive cars at high speed and pose in lingerie on the hood of cars, but still no dice. Lil France's old date has had enough by now and left the dance, while Lil France scratches his head on what went wrong and why his old girlfriend won't take his calls anymore... If your not from the south you wouldn't understand the flag deal, you probably just watch the mainstream media or some a$$ backwards show about rednecks and think it's all about racism and hate, it isn't... Heritage means something to some of us down here below the Mason-Dixon, we know the "War of Northern Aggression" wasn't about slavery, even if Oprah says otherwise. Don't judge, people down here have just grown tired of being marginalized and ridiculed by the media and big corporations and so we chose not to be wh0re-mongers to an organization ashamed to associate with us in the daylight. The divorce was one of infidelity, they left us, not the other way around.
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2/20/18, 5:02 AM |
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As for NASCAR's decline, plenty of people on this board gave their reasons for not liking NASCAR, & you're the only one who brought up Confederate flag issue. Its boring racing... Can we get back to sprint cars now? |
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2/20/18, 5:08 AM |
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But Virginia was where I first discovered dirt track racing & I like the South, go to Louisiana at least twice a year. In some ways, less racist than the North nowadays
The South is cool but please give up on the Confederacy thing |
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Sarah Fisher & Kyle Larson were both part of NASCAR’s Drive 4 Diversity program. Are you speaking about them? Or just Daniel Suarez and Darrell Wallace, Jr.?
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