rec.autos.simulators

Arguably the greatest road racer ever. It's a shame that we have to draw
paralells with Jim Clark here. Both guys taming the wildest of beasts on the
toughest of world series only to be killed in inconsequential club
races...Irony

MS

Ash

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1904 - Glenn H. Curtiss American aviation pioneer, makes first official
60mph motorcycle run.
Powered by one of the first American made twin cylinder engines.

Yessireeee.... The First episode on Sunday "TT Preview" had a full lap of
Jefferies bike with mostly onboard camera view with him narrating. Good
thing the weather for the races was fine for the most part, except for one
start delay, (helicopters couldn't fly mist/fog) ahhhhh it wasn't like that
in the old days, race rain or shine, fog or snow.

I only heard of one racers death this year, I hate to be the "GrimReaper"
but does anyone in the UK have a tally on this years total TT deaths?

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1904 - Glenn H. Curtiss American aviation pioneer, makes first official
60mph motorcycle run.
Powered by one of the first American made twin cylinder engines.

And finally Douglas Ellison wrote

Stuff the TV coverage - GO THERE! :-)
Or order the video from http://www.racesimcentral.net/.

...Andy

I listened to as much as I could of the practices and races on RadioTT and
only caught the referance to "Joey's" on one section of the track.

As far as the death's go, after culling through the IOMTT message boards &
the http://www.racesimcentral.net/  newspaper I think the total is 4, 1 racer &
3 civilian's.

1 racer death is a great improvement (screw the drunk bikers) from previous
years.
Just interested in this as to the situation of Insurance and the furture of
the TT, (I hope to be able to attend someday)........  :-)

DukeVideo? bollocks them for charging for the Grandstand ***.

Thanks for the responce.

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Daytona Beach - Winter Speed Carnival 1903 - 1935

1919 - Ralph DePalma Driving Champion and winner of hundreds of races, sets
new 1 mile record driving 905 cubic inch V-12 Packard on beach at 149.875
mph. DePalma also sets World Records for distances of 2 to 20 miles and
standing mile. His standing mile record of 92.713 mph is unbroken for 36
years.

Mercedes-Benz and Auto-Union both went for records in the 1930s, and
especially the mid-engine Auto-Unions with Hans Stuck and Bernd
Rosemeyer set world records for the acceleration disciplines. I'm
pretty sure the "Meile mit stehendem Start" was mentioned, too.

The record would mean that the mile had to be passed after about 38
seconds, something which any modern 200hp car should be able to do,
and certainly a 500+ hp Grand Prix car.

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Matthias Flatt

Huh?

I think the key words are "standing mile" as is starting from a dead stop.

And then there where alot of records that were,

* RECORD IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY EUROPEAN AUTHORITY

at the bottom of the page of here;
http://www.spiritofamerica.com/car/lsr_history.html

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Daytona Beach - Winter Speed Carnival 1903 - 1935

1935 - In March Malcolm Campbell returns in Bluebird and breaks 300mph
barrier with speed of 330mph on first leg of two way run. High winds on
return run holds World Record to 276.820 mph.  276.71?? Last Record set on a
beach.

Bluebird = 2,500 HP Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engine.

I know the difference between "standing mile" and "flying mile".

The wife of Bernd Rosemeyer, Elly Beinhorn, says in her book "Mein
Mann der Rennfahrer" (My husband the race driver, 1938 edition owned
by Grandma) on page 172:
"In the morning, my husband took both Class B (over 5 litres) world
records of standing Kilometer and standing Mile at the first attempt,
which were left untouched since 1934, when Stuck secured the Kilometer
and Carratsch the Mile. One has to think about what it means in
reality to drive from a standing start on a line through a single tiny
Kilometer or a Mile, which is approx 1.6 km, and achieve an average
speed of 186.8 km/h (116mph) or on the Mile even 216.4 km/h (134.4
mph)".
So the statement "His standing mile record of 92.713 mph is unbroken
for 36 years" means that the 36 years lasted from 1919 to 1937 at
best, and very probably not even up to 1934, as the 1934 GP cars were
already quite quick, with well over 300hp.

Hardly a world record, then, if it's not set under the rules and
supervision of the FIA?

In 1937, the Grand Prix cars of Mercedes-Benz and Auto-Union with up
to 6000cc (A-U) and up to 650hp (M-B), equipped with streamlined
bodies, achieved up to 437 km/h (270 mph) in the world record attempts
for cars up to 8000cc.
These cars were also raced for 300 miles on the Nrburgring, which was
abandoned 40 year later because the Formula 1 drivers considered
racing their 500hp 200mph F1 cars for 200 miles too dangerous. The
power of the 1937 GP cars was not beaten by Formula 1 until the 1980s
with the turbos.

In 1939, Hans Stuck and Mercedes-Benz wanted to go for the overall
land speed record with a special built car called T-80, equipped with
the engine of the Messerschmitt Me 109. The car was designed to run
650 km/h or 400mph, but the war set an end to the challenge.
The car is at display in the Mercedes-Benz Musem in Stuttgart.

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Matthias Flatt