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23 posts by 13 people · 30 Dec 1999 - 02 Jan 2000

Trivia: what gas CART and F1 put in their tyres

Rory S. Brown posed a trivia question about what CART and F1 teams put in their tyres. Most respondents answered nitrogen, because dry gas gives more predictable pressure changes with temperature. Brown said his source at Player's/Forsythe told him F1 used air dried with an expensive machine, which others questioned.

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CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And why? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com
Dave 30 Dec 1999#511265
Quoted text (27 lines)> CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > why? > -- > Rory S. Brown > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > Home Designed Computers by Rory > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > Visit www.directcomputers.com > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > Phone 604-671-5997 > Fax 604-930-9983 > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > Visit www.players-racing.com
Nitrogen,for stability.Hey Rory,did you used to race quarter midgets?Your name seems familiar. Dave
Not the same Rory Brown. What does F1 use in thier tires? What do they do with it? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > > CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > > why? > > -- > > Rory S. Brown > > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > > Home Designed Computers by Rory > > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > > Visit www.directcomputers.com > > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > > Phone 604-671-5997 > > Fax 604-930-9983 > > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > > Visit www.players-racing.com > Nitrogen,for stability.Hey Rory,did you used to race quarter midgets?Your > name seems familiar. > Dave
Mike J Tiet 30 Dec 1999#511267
a - nitrogen b - it contains less moisture, which makes the pressure change as the tire heats up more predictable... --
>CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And >why? I dunno about CART, but NASCAR uses Nitrogen in their tires because it is more stable pressure-wise throughout the range of temperatures the tire undergoes. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----
What does F1 do? And how? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > > CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > > why? > a - nitrogen > b - it contains less moisture, which makes the pressure change as the > tire heats up more predictable... > --
What does F1 do? And how? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > >CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > >why? > I dunno about CART, but NASCAR uses Nitrogen in their tires because it is > more stable pressure-wise throughout the range of temperatures the tire > undergoes. > ~daxe > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! > ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----
They use nitrogen because the tire pressures don't change so much with increasing temperature.
Quoted text (27 lines)>CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And >why? >-- >Rory S. Brown >Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator >"The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" >Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com >Home Designed Computers by Rory >"Custom Computers for your needs!" >Visit www.directcomputers.com >Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street >Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 >Phone 604-671-5997 >Fax 604-930-9983 >Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: >the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and >The Kool Racing Challenge Tour >Visit www.players-racing.com
What does F1 use? What do they do with it? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > They use nitrogen because the tire pressures don't change so much with > increasing temperature. > >CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > >why? > >-- > >Rory S. Brown > >Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > >"The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > >Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > >Home Designed Computers by Rory > >"Custom Computers for your needs!" > >Visit www.directcomputers.com > >Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > >Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > >Phone 604-671-5997 > >Fax 604-930-9983 > >Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > >the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > >The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > >Visit www.players-racing.com
Nitrogen is correct. Normal air does act strange, just check your road car in the evening and in th middle of the day :-) Matt Rory S. Brown skrev i meldingen ...
Quoted text (36 lines)>What does F1 use? What do they do with it? >-- >Rory S. Brown >Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator >"The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" >Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com >Home Designed Computers by Rory >"Custom Computers for your needs!" >Visit www.directcomputers.com >Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street >Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 >Phone 604-671-5997 >Fax 604-930-9983 >Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: >the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and >The Kool Racing Challenge Tour >Visit www.players-racing.com >> They use nitrogen because the tire pressures don't change so much with >> increasing temperature. >> >CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use?
And
Quoted text (26 lines)>> >why? >> >-- >> >Rory S. Brown >> >Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator >> >"The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" >> >Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com >> >Home Designed Computers by Rory >> >"Custom Computers for your needs!" >> >Visit www.directcomputers.com >> >Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street >> >Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 >> >Phone 604-671-5997 >> >Fax 604-930-9983 >> >Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: >> >the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and >> >The Kool Racing Challenge Tour >> >Visit www.players-racing.com
Woodie 83 31 Dec 1999#511440
>CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And >why? Nitrogen, because it doesn't absorb water making the tire pressure change due to temperature much more predictable. Please mail me a Hyperstimulator, Don McCorkle
m.seery 31 Dec 1999#511441
Grooved Nitrogen Mark
Quoted text (36 lines)> What does F1 use? What do they do with it? > -- > Rory S. Brown > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > Home Designed Computers by Rory > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > Visit www.directcomputers.com > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > Phone 604-671-5997 > Fax 604-930-9983 > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > Visit www.players-racing.com > > They use nitrogen because the tire pressures don't change so much with > > increasing temperature. > > >CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use?
And
Quoted text (26 lines)> > >why? > > >-- > > >Rory S. Brown > > >Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > > >"The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > > >Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > > >Home Designed Computers by Rory > > >"Custom Computers for your needs!" > > >Visit www.directcomputers.com > > >Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > > >Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > > >Phone 604-671-5997 > > >Fax 604-930-9983 > > >Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > > >the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > > >The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > > >Visit www.players-racing.com
My information is that F1 doesn't use Nitrogen. -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > Nitrogen is correct. Normal air does act strange, just check your road car > in the evening and in th middle of the day :-) > Matt > Rory S. Brown skrev i meldingen ... > >What does F1 use? What do they do with it? > >-- > >Rory S. Brown > >Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > >"The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > >Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > >Home Designed Computers by Rory > >"Custom Computers for your needs!" > >Visit www.directcomputers.com > >Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > >Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > >Phone 604-671-5997 > >Fax 604-930-9983 > >Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > >the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > >The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > >Visit www.players-racing.com > >> They use nitrogen because the tire pressures don't change so much with > >> increasing temperature. > >> >CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? > And > >> >why? > >> >-- > >> >Rory S. Brown > >> >Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > >> >"The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > >> >Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > >> >Home Designed Computers by Rory > >> >"Custom Computers for your needs!" > >> >Visit www.directcomputers.com > >> >Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > >> >Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > >> >Phone 604-671-5997 > >> >Fax 604-930-9983 > >> >Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > >> >the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > >> >The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > >> >Visit www.players-racing.com
Guessing nitrogen because it's relatively inert (won't burn up in a fire). -- Philip D'Amato 1999 Ninja 500R > CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > why? > -- > Rory S. Brown > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > Home Designed Computers by Rory > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > Visit www.directcomputers.com > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > Phone 604-671-5997 > Fax 604-930-9983 > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > Visit www.players-racing.com
Tony 01 Jan 2000#511611
The correct answer is Nitrogen, because it is inert, which means it is stable (does not contain moisture, nor any other contaminants) and, therefore, is a stable substance. Sort of like the difference between using tap water versus distilled water in your lead-acid battery. Cheers, and Happy New Mellinium, Tony Long
Quoted text (27 lines)> CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > why? > -- > Rory S. Brown > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > Home Designed Computers by Rory > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > Visit www.directcomputers.com > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > Phone 604-671-5997 > Fax 604-930-9983 > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > Visit www.players-racing.com
Ian Parker 01 Jan 2000#511612
hehehe :) -- Ian Parker UKGPL League [link lost in import] [link lost in import] -- > Grooved Nitrogen > Mark > > What does F1 use? What do they do with it? > > -- > > Rory S. Brown
What does F1 use? And how do they do it? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > Guessing nitrogen because it's relatively inert (won't burn up in a fire). > -- > Philip D'Amato > 1999 Ninja 500R > > CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > > why? > > -- > > Rory S. Brown > > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > > Home Designed Computers by Rory > > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > > Visit www.directcomputers.com > > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > > Phone 604-671-5997 > > Fax 604-930-9983 > > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > > Visit www.players-racing.com
What does F1 use? And how do they do it? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > The correct answer is Nitrogen, because it is inert, which means it is > stable (does not contain moisture, nor any other contaminants) and, > therefore, is a stable substance. Sort of like the difference between > using tap water versus distilled water in your lead-acid battery. > Cheers, and Happy New Mellinium, > Tony Long > > CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > > why? > > -- > > Rory S. Brown > > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > > Home Designed Computers by Rory > > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > > Visit www.directcomputers.com > > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > > Phone 604-671-5997 > > Fax 604-930-9983 > > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > > Visit www.players-racing.com
What does F1 use? And what do they do with it? -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com Brown" > >CART doesn't use air in their Champ car tires. So what do they use? And > >why? > Nitrogen, because it doesn't absorb water making the tire pressure change due > to temperature much more predictable. > Please mail me a Hyperstimulator, > Don McCorkle
They use something so secret that I would have to kill you if I told you. Or in other words, CART will get it in 2005. In actual fact its.....nitrogen. Steve (watch for the incoming now)
I was told by a source in the Players/Forsythe Racing Team they use air but dry it with a mega buck machine. -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > They use something so secret that I would have to kill you if I told you. Or > in other words, CART will get it in 2005. In actual fact its.....nitrogen. > Steve (watch for the incoming now) > >What does F1 use? And what do they do with it? > >-- > >Rory S. Brown
Kevin 02 Jan 2000#511757
All gasses will behave the same in a tire, except for two things: 1) If they react with the *** or other gas components, especially at elevated temperatures. 2) If they contain moisture. If the F1 cars use nitrogen, it would be because it is easy and cheap to get dry nitrogen from any gas supply. Dry air is probably harder to come by, unless you have your own drying machine. Kevin Caldwell Calgary, Canada
In error I may have implied Players/Forsythe use air. Cart uses Nitrogen. I was told by Players/Forsythe that F1 uses Air, which they dry with a mega buck machine. -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com > All gasses will behave the same in a tire, except for two things: > 1) If they react with the *** or other gas components, especially at > elevated temperatures. > 2) If they contain moisture. > If the F1 cars use nitrogen, it would be because it is easy and cheap to get > dry nitrogen from any gas supply. Dry air is probably harder to come by, > unless you have your own drying machine. > Kevin Caldwell > Calgary, Canada > > I was told by a source in the Players/Forsythe Racing Team they use air > but > > dry it with a mega buck machine. > > -- > > Rory S. Brown

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