N/H/L pulls out of Sebring test.

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Originally Posted by garyshell

The thread was INITIALLY about NHLR not being in Sebring, and I would hardly categorize them as the "sour grapes" type. But to go a step further it was not about the new chassis, it was about the spare parts they received which they would have needed to take to Sebring along with the new chassis. But like I said, all I have is I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy etc. etc. and we all know that sort of info is sketchy at best.

Gary

Sour grapes was a bad choice of words. What I meant was some people are very negative and complain about everything. Maybe not the team member but the guy who heard it from the guy that heard it is the negative one. Maybe that guy is a regular over at that other site & is part of the F-Troop. Say he hears that one bolt was stripped & maybe a control arm had a cosmetic flaw and it was said they weren't as nice as the stuff they used to get, from Lola. That negative person blows it out of proportion into EVERYTHING they got was junk.

Like you said, you heard it 3rd or 4th hand & I heard it from you. ;-)

Jeff

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Originally Posted by cartpix

It could also be a case of sour grapes. As the saying goes, some would complain if you hung them with a new rope. Not hearing first hand or knowing the personalities involved, I am, of course speculating. But weren't the teams supposed to get a new chassis? How is it there is stress cracks & cross threaded bolts, on a a new chassis. I could see that, on the used chassis, they were supposed to receive, along with the new one. I wouldn't expect the used chassis to be someones pristine one race tub or an unused spare.

Jeff

I have seen this term used in a couple different places, "unused spare". Wouldn't an unused spare be, literally, a new chassis? Do teams keep a chassis for nothing other than wind tunnel or shaker rig testing? Maybe I am taking "unused" to mean "never used at all", when it means "never used in a race, but has a gazillion test miles on it".
IIRC, one other place I saw this term used, was when Jon Herb sold the Racing Professionals cars back to the league. I believe it said he sold "the Dallara used at Indy and Chicagoland, as well as an unused spare, to be used as "pool cars" for the incoming CC teams".

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