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Fom USA Today:

Gordon, incidentally, has become NASCAR's *** road racer, winning the
last five in a row. ''But,'' he says with a chuckle, ''that doesn't mean if
you bring (Formula One star) Michael Schumacher over here and put him in a
stock car, I could keep up with him.''

David G Fisher

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000526/2303778s.htm

David G Fisher

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drivers would have been on an oval track......

I for one wish that modern F1 drivers would try some oval racing.  I love
watching old clips of Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Surtees and many others at
Indy.  These guys were responsible for significant advances in US open wheel
racing and were very successful.  If these legends didn't turn up their
noses at oval tracks, why do modern F1 drivers do so?

Although I believe F1 drivers are at the top of the list of the most skilled
road course racers in the world, Im not so sure they could jump in a Winston
Cup Stock Car and beat the Gordon or some of the other good NASCAR Winston
Cup road course drivers.  Driving a WC Car around a road course is a HUGE
difference than an F1 or any other type of open wheel car.

That does not mean I am saying the WC guys are better road course racers.
I'm just saying they are better at driving Winston Cup cars on road courses.
<G>

Scott
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The reason why F1 drivers are so good is because they can adapt to
almost any car or track, that's why they are where they are today,
that's not to say the MS (hate his guts) would beat *any* WC driver
without any prior testing at any given track, but I bet it wouldn't take
MS (hate his guts) too many laps to be right on pace, and probably well
above it too....

But then again, even MS (hate his guts) is susceptible to driver
preferences, and he could find it hard to get the car set up they way he
wanted it, but having seen MS (hate his guts) at the Paris-Bercy (sp)
kart races, I would be very surprised if that was the case

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Modern F1 drivers are major corporate entities in their own right. Their
time is very much taken up with developement, practise, public appearances,
promotional outings, business meeting ,etc. They really don't have the extra
time the heroes of old did to try other stuff. Also they generally have
clauses in their driving contracts that prohibit them from taking part in
other series.

David

Scott
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And by doing it like that, some guys will actually like the setup, and
some will loathe it, in the Paris-Bercy (sp) kart races, everyone uses
identical karts, but they are allowed some small mods to the karts to
fine tune the handling a bit, tire pressures and such, but you're not
allowed to change the chassis or engine, so if anyone could come up with
something similar, and the IROC series might be the best starting point
for something like this, I think it could be really great

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unmanageable, I'm sure there's something similar in Outlook ?

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It would be interesting if a few tried it while they were in F1.  It's just
that most F1 drivers only drive one series at a time (hardly see any current
drivers trying touring cars or Lemans).  Probably a result of their
contracts, amount of testing, setup work, and practice that goes on in any
of these series.

Brian

I honestly don't know.  I have Outlook setup to delete messages 5 days after
they are downloaded.  Well, Jacobs never disappear <G>  With 45,000 headers,
the compacting of the folder sometimes locks up my Outlook.  Closing down
Outlook sometimes takes 5 minutes when Ive read his newsgroup.  It not only
happens at my home pc, but it happens on my work PC as well which is a 1
week old PC <VBG>

N3.discussion is the only newsgroup I have problems with.

Scott
PA-Scott
PowerSims.com

Nuff said.

Chris

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|> This might get the NASCAR vs. F1 debate rolling again.  :-)
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|Not a chance, even the most hadcore Nascar fans would admit to that,
|especially since they'd rather there wasn't any road courses in the WC
|at all, I'd expect most current F1 drivers, including those lapped 2 or
|3 times, to do well at Sears or Glen in Nascar, if you want to stir
|things up, you need to start talking about how F1 drivers would have
|been on an oval track......
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