But will it take-off ... ?

[Billzilla]

Good ol' Nascar. Have the tech rules so strict, and simple, for the cars, the teams will try anything to get an edge. How else do you explain having a dedicated car for certain tracks!

FWIW the better teams (AFAIK) have 24 cars for the 36 tracks they go to. Some of the 24 cars can run more than one track.

Big budget eh?

[Tripper]

may be a big budget, but i would like to compare motorsports, all types with a dollar cost agianst per viewer, given the large audience in the USA, the population of the USA is like 300,000,000 people, now lets say 25% of these people watch it be it at the track or on TV thats 75,000,000 people watching it, a $35,000,000 investment using our postage cost of 50c a stamp makes it worth while, and that doesnt include the printing cost of material to be sent out.

[Billzilla]

may be a big budget, but i would like to compare motorsports, all types with a dollar cost agianst per viewer, given the large audience in the USA, the population of the USA is like 300,000,000 people, now lets say 25% of these people watch it be it at the track or on TV thats 75,000,000 people watching it, a $35,000,000 investment using our postage cost of 50c a stamp makes it worth while, and that doesnt include the printing cost of material to be sent out.

And I'd say that a goodly proprtion of those ~75,000,000 people would have more than two heads.

[John]

Contrary to what some people think, 1:1 windtunnels are not the ideal in lots of cases, particularly when designing F1 cars, simply because building models takes too long and the experimental bits are too expensive to make (because at full scale they have to be able to withstand enormous loads).

The other point that someone mentioned about about the car coming off the track at 150mph is not actually that much of a problem, simply because the car has almost zero momentum.

J

[Cplus]

Inertia's a bitch when you don't know what you're talking about huh

[MartyHusseinXF]

And I'd say that a goodly proprtion of those ~75,000,000 people would have more than two heads.

Because enjoying competitive motorsport without it having what marketing dweebs determine to be the latest and the greatest means you are stupid.

[devo]

So take 1 treadmill designed for a horse and sell it to auto teams for 50gazilloion $$$$$$$. Wish I'd thought of it.

[John]

cplus

did i miss someething?

[Cplus]

cplus

did i miss someething?

No.

I was agreeing with you :D