From: "Joe Barr" 


They do allow it in testing.  That's why the guy spent 20K for it.


On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:28:06 +0000, Paul Ranson wrote:

> 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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