AH! I see. Nope, I've got you this time. You're wrong :)
I'm looking at a picture of a 63 right now, which was the car that crashed
at Goodwood, and is the F1 variant of the type 64 Indy car.
The F1 version precedes the Indy car version because development of it
started roughly just after the turbine car of '68. When the turbine was
banned from Indy the 63 changed into the 64 for the oval, since it was
designed from the outset to take a conventional ICE.
Actually we dent them quite a bit over here. Even write them off on
occasion. It happens, and we colonials have come to accept that as a part
of racing and now race them hard.
It's when someone ELSE dents your car that the feathers get ruffled.
So I guess vintage racing here, compared to England, would be similar to
racing the AI offline in GPL compared to racing real people online.
Online, because of warp and lag, you don't race quite as close, and not
quite as agressively, as you would against the AI, or a real person on a
LAN.
><snip>
>>I think we can do without cricket.
>Sorry, I don't understand. No-one can live without cricket. :-)
Martin D. Pay
Of course if America does take up cricket they'll probably beat
us at it... just like everyone else does ATM... :(
Thou speakest heresy!!!
Martin D. Pay
Are we sufficiently off-topic yet? ^_^
Little bastards keep me up all night sometimes!
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Canberra, Australia.
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> > LOL!
> > Thanks, Kevin.
> > I think the car that was involved in the incident was a Lotus 64, the
same
> > TYPE as driven by Andretti at Indy in 1969.
> > If there was a Lotus Type 63 then it must've been designed for a class
> other
> > than F1 or Indy.
> AH! I see. Nope, I've got you this time. You're wrong :)
> I'm looking at a picture of a 63 right now, which was the car that crashed
> at Goodwood, and is the F1 variant of the type 64 Indy car.
> The F1 version precedes the Indy car version because development of it
> started roughly just after the turbine car of '68. When the turbine was
> banned from Indy the 63 changed into the 64 for the oval, since it was
> designed from the outset to take a conventional ICE.
A bit like the childhood situation of "Get outta MY sandpit.....I don't
wanna play with YOU anymore!"
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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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> > That was exactly what Mr. Moss thought, David. :-)
> Actually we dent them quite a bit over here. Even write them off on
> occasion. It happens, and we colonials have come to accept that as a part
> of racing and now race them hard.
> It's when someone ELSE dents your car that the feathers get ruffled.
> So I guess vintage racing here, compared to England, would be similar to
> racing the AI offline in GPL compared to racing real people online.
> Online, because of warp and lag, you don't race quite as close, and not
> quite as agressively, as you would against the AI, or a real person on a
> LAN.
><snip>
>>I think we can do without cricket.
>Sorry, I don't understand. No-one can live without cricket. :-)
Eldred
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I immediately opted out of cricket!! I found it BORING.....upper case,
72-point print!
But that's just me....obviously there are those who adore the game, which is
perfectly fine. I just get fed up when cricket pushes motor-racing to a 3:00
AM television time-slot! :-)
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Canberra, Australia.
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> >I think that the entire WORLD can do without cricket, Kai! :-)
> Thou speakest heresy!!!
> Martin D. Pay
> Are we sufficiently off-topic yet? ^_^
<snip>
Latest from Lord's - England 50/5...
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David. (GPLRank handicap: +39.92)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)
I didn't detect any jingoism in Kevin's post at all. He clearly was saying
that it was okay to ding your own car (i.e., crash it) but it was not okay to
have someone (regardless of race, creed, color, nationality, political
affiliation, IQ, shoesize, GPLRank ....) crash into you.
Dave Ewing
> > It's when someone ELSE dents your car that the feathers get ruffled.
> *****************************************************
> David A. Ewing
> *****************************************************
West Indies 49 all out <G>
MS
> <snip>
> >Of course if America does take up cricket they'll probably beat
> >us at it... just like everyone else does ATM... :(
> Latest from Lord's - England 50/5...
> --
> David. (GPLRank handicap: +39.92)
> "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
> really."
> (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)
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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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> I didn't detect any jingoism in Kevin's post at all. He clearly was
saying
> that it was okay to ding your own car (i.e., crash it) but it was not okay
to
> have someone (regardless of race, creed, color, nationality, political
> affiliation, IQ, shoesize, GPLRank ....) crash into you.
> Dave Ewing
> > Odd....so you're saying that it's okay for Americans to ding their own
cars
> > but if a foreigner races with you and dings a car he's a meany?
> > > It's when someone ELSE dents your car that the feathers get ruffled.
> > *****************************************************
> > David A. Ewing
> > *****************************************************
<snip>
49? It was 54 when I looked - have they been docked runs?
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David. (GPLRank handicap: +30.02)
"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
really."
(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)
MS
> >Even later from Lords.
> >West Indies 49 all out <G>
> <snip>
> 49? It was 54 when I looked - have they been docked runs?
> --
> David. (GPLRank handicap: +30.02)
> "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll,
> really."
> (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)
