rec.autos.simulators

The only way I see EFI working effectively is if NASCAR provides spec
modules during inspection like they do with the restrictor plates.

db

   The rule was originally written for the benefit of one man,  John
Mennard.  He was a friend of Satan's son(the IRL founder) and couldn't get
his stock block v6's to run fast enough to compete with the Ford's and
Illmor's.  So the despicable one wrote rules to allow Mennard enough extra
umph to compete, actually overcompete, with the purebred racing engines.  
Penkse went through the rules and found a very very very large loophole and
went out and blew away the field.  
   Now what was the fallout of this?
A)  Penkse was so pleased with his new motor he planned on running it for
the rest of the CART season and into the next year.  Ilmor, knowing they
had the engine to beat, began a full scale program to build plenty more of
these engines when the other teams came calling.
B)  CART restricted the use of the stock block engines, so Penske had to
return to the regular Ilmors.
C)  Ilmor was so heavily invested financially in the new block program they
could not properly maintain the pre-existing engine's research and
development.  For the next several years the Ilmor powerplant lost more and
more ground to the Honda's and Fords...only one other season after this did
the Ilmor compete effectively for the Manufactuer's cup.  In fact, the F1
program also suffered at this time.
D)  Satan's ill-conceived child rewarded Penkse's team the very next year
for flaunting his stockblock rule.  For some reason the team that had won
Indy a record # of times, the team that had tested in cold weather 3 months
earlier and set very fast times, couldn't find any speed in May.  If they
ran high downforce they were too slow, if they trimmed out the cars the
popoff valves(100% supplied and controlled by the Devils Spawn's track
sanctioning team) would blow and kill their speed.  Even when Penkse
borrowed cars from Team Rahal, a team that had easily qualified, they still
could not make the field.
E)  the child of the Devil knew his friend John Mennard couldn't
financially compete with the top CART teams so he created the irl to keep
the Penkse's of the world at bay.(until such time he needed big names to
keep his underglamorized series afloat)  He then made Team Mennard the
official test team of the irl and provided them with over a 1000 laps at
the brickyard to test tires, tubs, engines and trannies.  Mennard's team,
with the best remaining driver: a kid named Tony Stewart..failed to finish
the majority of the irl's first season despite this huge testing
adavantage. Many of the irl's teams arrived at the Disneyworld race with
zero test laps.  
  Here endeth the lesson, told without rancor or prejuidice, strictly the
facts.

dave henrie

Uh huh.....

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

Seems to be pretty much the way I remember things....
Especially the Devil Spawn stuff   ;D

db

Although I don't doubt most of the "facts" for a second, I do somehow
and for some strange reason doubt DH's ability to talk about this
"without rancor or prejudice"

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

Thanks to all for clarifying those tech details. I think that F1 could
do with some of that "old school stuff". Would spice up things a
bit...

greetings,

They would then be called restrictor chip racing.

MadDAWG