Didn't happen that way. In fact, the road-course kit wasn't that cost-prohibitive.
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Didn't happen that way. In fact, the road-course kit wasn't that cost-prohibitive.
Yes, we've all heard the official party line ad nauseaum. The actual truth, however, is far different.Quote:
Originally Posted by indycool
Well, you can add an "IMO" to that.
Or I could be accurate and add an "I heard it from very reliable industry sources". The party line is fluff and spin, as you doubtless well know.
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Originally Posted by indycool
How hard it would be to retro fit if there wasn't? Also note, a lot of circuits on the road course side can have right or left side pits, so I would imagine that regardless of Oval aspirations or not, they should have buckeyes on both sides. Please IC, don't go down the road of saying the DP01 is unsuitable for ovals. Only an idiot would design a race car for the North American market and not have plans and the DNA in the design to go oval racing.....
I know you want to stand on the ground that this car isn't right, but any car is right if people want to make the effort. The DP01 is going to be the CCWS car for the next 5 years, and I would be shocked if it never saw an oval. Now if the IRL buys their own design; that is their prerogative and their right, and as I said, I would have preferred the IRL have taken a radically different road in 1995. That said, if they refused the DP01 only because CCWS is using it, and that reason alone, then it is obvious they are scared of their teams having too easy a time leaving the IRL once Indy was over. The thing is if you believe you have the best series and package....then what are you afraid of??? Really? I can tell you this much. If the IRL went to Panoz and CCWS blocked the sale of DP01's, then it proves that the CCWS is scared of cross pollination. The teams will go back and forth until one series dies and that is the real issue. The thing is, all the teams are pawns in this game....and until it ends, we will have endless arguments on here about who should have what car and whether it can be made to turn left all day....
I would rather talk about racing...
Mark, I don't know how hard it would be to retrofit a buckeye on the opposite side of the car....I'm no fabricator or engineer, nor do I know how the fuel tank is set in there, nor do I know how it would affect the fuel cell.
I DO know that the IRL, when it commissioned new cars, long before the IRL even was talking to anybody about a road race, commissioned the cars with buckeyes on both sides to start with....one less thing to retrofit "if come."
As you suggest, I won't go "down the road" of unsuitable for ovals. In its current form, it probably IS unsuitable for ovals. The truth is, no one probably knows because there is no "oval kit" for it even to be tested at this point.
Simply staggering. Is this the best you can do? Of course it has buckeyes on both sides. Do you think the pits are always on the same side? Heck, San Jose alone has had the pits on both sides.
You could've answered my question in Post #70, but I guess you had to play CW first.
Ooh, insults. My apologies, but I didn't notice #70 until Mark pointed it out. Perhaps if you put all of your misconceptions into one post it would be easier.
Speaking of "oval" packages, what exactly do you feel is necessary to make the DP-01 IRL-worthy? Given that the car was designed with ovals in mind and the IRL runs what amounts to a high-downforce roadcourse package at most events anyway, about the only addition needed is a speedway wing and a set of carbon rotors.
Why was the DP-01 designed with ovals in mind when CC has no more ovals?
I don't know mechanically or design-wise what it would need to race ovals, but I'd kinda like to see how it holds up in CC for a season first.