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Re: Saftey RE: State of current British cars

To: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: Saftey RE: State of current British cars
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:27:29 -0400
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <v0421010eb7a71b20858d@[163.246.48.154]>
Jeff Boatright wrote:
> 
> This reminds me of the recent Speedvision program on safety. They
> interviewed a safety engineer who worked on Indy cars. As he said, in
> the early days after a big crash in practice or qualifying, you just
> rolled the car right side up and went looking for a new driver for
> the race. Nowadays after a shunt, your driver simply runs back to the
> pits and gets in the back-up car.

  Don't tell me they started cutting up 49 packards to
make Indy cars?

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
Beavis, I'm a little disappointed in you.



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