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Cars? On a track? And when?
Are you meaning to imply that I am watching a race?
I am merely asking a hypothetical question in regards to the size of the grid when using restrictor plates.
I am offended, sir.
Yeah pizza. And beer too -- just embrace it.
I am merely asking a hypothetical question in regards to the size of the grid when using restrictor plates.43 cars. Same as always. Well 43 start. Significantly fewer finish.
Yeah pizza. And beer too -- just embrace it.I don't think I can get the beer delivered. Which is a shame.
Trudy, they basically just decided recently (some study?) that OTC cough suppressants don't do jack.
Unless your counter is in a place where they allow codeine, like canada, europe, asia, australia...pretty much everywhere but the US.
So are the restrictor plates because of the track? Or do they just like to do some of each?
Oh, and bump drafting seems sorta cool.
Hot whisky with some honey and lemon.
Trudy, they basically just decided recently (some study?) that OTC cough suppressants don't do jack. So...my Russian coworker would suggest vodka...
Somewhere I saw that what the study actually shows was that it only treats the symptoms, it doesn't actually make the cough any better. Like treating the symptoms is nothing. Must've been a slow news day.
Restrictor plates are because of the tracks. On the fastest tracks, they limit the engines to slow the cars down. Which works. But it also bunches the cars up. Which leads to chain-reaction, massively multi-car accidents, aka The Big One.
Bump drafting can be cool. Two cars can go faster than one. It is also very easy to do it stupid. Which crashes people. And can kill them. So it's better to be smart about it.
BWAH! "Toasting each other" commercial was adorable!
In a pre-race show I might have overheard all they seemed to talk about was The Big One. It almost seemed like, you know, people really do watch for the crashes.
In my experience social worker=asshat. There are degrees of course; I even like the current one, but if she told me the sky was blue I'd run out and check first. So to speak.
Well, there are more of the massively multicar accidents in restrictor plate races. But restrictor plates came about because of of the incredibly violent high-speed crashes that were happening on those tracks.
Bigger / more crashes that were comparatively less dangerous -- it's the trade-off.
But the commercials are funny.
I was a social worker, for a while. In my experience, a few are excellent (not me) and many are incompetent and lack compassion, or even brains. One social worker talked about how people usually die within 5 years of going into a nursing home, right in front of the woman who was soon going into one, and then asked me if she always trembled and shook like that. She even drew a little tombstone on the whiteboard to finish the "life timeline" she'd drawn! My boss used to say that one had to become hardened to peoples' hardships in order to be a good social worker. (!) She used to call me into her office for "talks" if she heard about me "not being stern enough" with my clients.