From: "Robert Comer" 

> Teams have never been allowed to 'rig' the races. And the organisers don't
> do it either.

Ferrari did a good impression of it this year in at least 2 races. (They
ought to be ashamed of themselves for acting that way...)

> I thought NASCAR allowed data logging/telemetry in testing.

They do, but it isn't used to the level they have in other auto-sports.
Think about it, it would be pretty expensive to do it in testing and just
have that stuff sitting around during 95% of the laps that car runs...

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:3dc11303{at}w3.nls.net...
> Teams have never been allowed to 'rig' the races. And the organisers don't
> do it either.
>
> I thought NASCAR allowed data logging/telemetry in testing.
>
> Paul
>
> "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> news:3dc0b012{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> > Actually, before I learned that NASCAR didn't allow it, I was going to
do
> > some research to see if they did.  The most knowledgeable driver I
talked
> > to about it in Memphis said a friend of his spent 20K for equipment to
get
> > telemetry from his car to the pits.  As a result, they felt they had the
> > best set up car of anyone at the track.  I it was Phoenix, not sure now.
> >
> > Anybody know what they use onboard for that kind of stuff in the F1
cars?
> >
> > Speaking of F1s, haven't they just changed the rules for next year so
> > teams can't rig the races?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:36 +0000, Tony Williams wrote:
> >
> > > I thought the discussion of RPMs was quite on-topic actually. I'm all
in
> > > favour of limiting those, and I never realised that NASCARs ran
Linux...
> >
> > --
> >
>
>

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