> As far as the "Fuel" burning on top of the water. If
> they had not done it that way non-race fans would be
> complaining that the fuel did not catch fire. Not
> everyone knows about methanol fuel.
-- The "anouncers explained everything else, why not that methanol does not
burn in water or even that it burns clear. As is it in the movie it implies
that EVERY racing accedent involves fire.
hKw
>
> --- jac73@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
> > Dan Timko says:
> >
> >
> > >I guess we should just all complain. Maybe they
> > will never make a racing
> > >movie ever again! That way, we won't have to endure
> > the pain. Oh wait, we
> > >are just a minute percentage of who they make their
> > money off of. :)
> >
> > My beef is simple: Stallone, the screenwriter,
> > spent over a year getting
> > intimate with the F1 circus and another year (after
> > Czar Ecclestone
> > demanded a licensing fee roughly twice the budget of
> > the movie) with the
> > CART teams before production started. I would hope
> > that he would have
> > learned SOMETHING about how the cars work, or at
> > least that CART Champ Cars
> > use methanol fuel, which a) burns invisibly, b) is
> > quite well-contained in
> > a fuel cell, and c) is completely miscable in water
> > and thus exceptionally
> > unlikely to pool on top of a shallow pond, let alone
> > catch fire there.
> > He'd have learned that they don't have on-board
> > starters, and that show
> > cars never have engines or fuel in them. He'd have
> > learned that there's
> > *one* designated communicator in the pits and
> > sometimes a spotter on the
> > roof of the press box at ovals, and certainly
> > girlfriends and ex-wives
> > wouldn't be able to talk to the driver in the middle
> > of the race. But that
> > was too much to hope for, apparently.
> >
> > >And I agree with the guy in one of the previous
> > emails who was happy that
> > >they are at least MAKING racing movies. But maybe
> > some of you would prefer
> > >to watch the new version of "Annie" than a
> > not-so-perfect racing movie. :)
> >
> > It's entirely possible that a really bad racing
> > movie could do more harm to
> > racing than no racing movies at all. "Days of
> > Blunder" didn't do NASCAR
> > any favors as far as countering the redneck image
> > they were trying to shed.
> > Just the bizarre CGI wrecks shown in "Driven"'s
> > commercials are a
> > disservice to the racing community.
> >
> > >I for one, learned something: I never knew CART
> > cars had 20 gears that
> > they
> > >could downshift into, which would propel their car
> > ahead of the next car
> > >while the other car was supposedly already going
> > top speed in a straight!
> > :)
> >
> > Not only that, the drivers only run half-throttle on
> > a superspeedway,
> > except when they need to pass someone...
> >
> > Jim Crider
> > autojim@att.net
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