NASCAR has finally reached Australia, unfortunately we got stuck
with the English version - no REAL cars or drivers and a crappy
20 page manual.
I can ftp the cars and drivers but what about the manual? Compared to
the manual for Indycar it is a joke. Maybe Papyrus could provide us
with a text file we could download.
Tim
>>these cars were going. Does anyone know what kind of speeds could Indycars
>>achieve at Talladega?
Unfortunately, the downforce of IndyCars does not allow them to run on
Talledega. For this reason, I do not believe that Indianapolis should be
called the fastest track on earth, because if IndyCars could at Talladega,
they would be at a much higher speed than Indy. Just look at NASCAR -- 195
(should be in the 200's 'cept for those damn restrictor plates) at Talladega
and 165 at Indy...
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>>NASCAR has finally reached Australia, unfortunately we got stuck >>with the English version - no REAL cars or drivers and a crappy >>20 page manual. >>I can ftp the cars and drivers but what about the manual? Compared to >>the manual for Indycar it is a joke. Maybe Papyrus could provide us >>with a text file we could download. >>Tim >I agree with the manual. I just lllllooooove the game, but that shitty >booklet makes me cry. I know nothing about the sport itself, I've seen >it only once on TV. It was at Talladega, and I just couldn't believe how fast >these cars were going. Does anyone know what kind of speeds could Indycars >achieve at Talladega?Indycars don't run at Talladega in official competition, and I doubt
they even test there. The banked turns are so steep that they possibly
could do 240+mph averages. Stock cars go 200+mph. I recall that Mark
Donohue
ran a speed record at Talladega in a modified Porsche 917-10 Turbo in the
mid 70s; something like 230+mph average over many laps.
Peter
>Unfortunately, the downforce of IndyCars does not allow them to run on
>Talledega. For this reason, I do not believe that Indianapolis should be
>called the fastest track on earth, because if IndyCars could at Talladega,
>they would be at a much higher speed than Indy. Just look at NASCAR --
195
Indycars already run much faster at Michigan than at Indy - about by
10mph,
even without the special purpose engines allowed at Indy. Roger Penske,
who owns Michigan, is currently building another superspeedway like
Michigan near L.A. - maybe it'll be faster thatn Michigan, but it seems
that technical rules will slow down the cars enough to keep the balance...
