Then there's the fact that the roof rails are required by the SCTA/BNI
rules. See p. 38, 4.X "Roof rails are REQUIRED when the existing class
record exceeds 200 mph." No such requirement for flaps and after looking at
Gribble's car I wondered about the space needed inside many of the coupes
for the tethers.
Wes
on 1/3/04 5:17 PM, Glenn Ridlen at glennr7@hotmail.com wrote:
> Elon
> Their are probably people here much mure qualified than I to answer this. So
> this just my guess/opinion. I think the NASCAR flaps are primarily to keep
> the car from lifting when it is going backwards. If you watch some of the
> old crash films you can see this happening. They are set at a little angle.
> Don't know if that't to help them start opening as the car comes around so
> they are fully deployed by the time the car is backwords or to make them
> more effective when the car is going backwords at some angle. Roof rails on
> the other hand are only effective when the car is going sideways. Think
> maybe the concern was the car lifting then coming down, digging in and
> rolling. If you think you need flaps I don't think there is any rule against
> them.
>
> Glenn
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