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Question for the NASCAR fans (re: Kuechly)


Mr. Scot

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On the eve of Thomas Davis driving a NASCAR ace car, Bill Voth linked this from last season...

 

NASCAR drivers unhappy with Luke Kuechly's pace car speed

 

At the beginning of the video below, you can hear Carl Edwards complaining about Kuechly’s speed. The spotter for Edwards also mentions the 18 car, driven by Kyle Busch. And considering Busch doesn’t care much for a speed limit on normal roads, it’s not really a surprise he’d whine about a guy taking it easy on the track.

 

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Pace laps are generally used for building heat in the 4 rubber corners, hence the accelerating and braking along with the side to side swerving to generate hysteresis in the sidewalls to enhance pliability that comes with higher temps.

Pace cars keep a steady high speed so the drivers can allow gaps to build in which they can accelerate and close the gap. Similar to a burnout effect for drag racers, builds heat in the rear tires so they don't spin on the starts. The acceleration also allows them to clean out their intakes for an abundance of fuel will build up in low idle situations

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Pace laps are generally used for building heat in the 4 rubber corners, hence the accelerating and braking along with the side to side swerving to generate hysteresis in the sidewalls to enhance pliability that comes with higher temps.

Pace cars keep a steady high speed so the drivers can allow gaps to build in which they can accelerate and close the gap. Similar to a burnout effect for drag racers, builds heat in the rear tires so they don't spin on the starts. The acceleration also allows them to clean out their intakes for an abundance of fuel will build up in low idle situations

We got a scientist in here

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How could you not be a little nervous in a Pace car in front of 10's of thousands in attendance and millions watching round the world.

 

I was nervous just riding in one of those cars.  Cant imagine driving it.

 

Wonder why they wont let Cam drive?....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How could you not be a little nervous in a Pace car in front of 10's of thousands in attendance and millions watching round the world.

 

I was nervous just riding in one of those cars.  Cant imagine driving it.

 

Wonder why they wont let Cam drive?....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Enjoy your flames :lol:

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Pace laps are generally used for building heat in the 4 rubber corners, hence the accelerating and braking along with the side to side swerving to generate hysteresis in the sidewalls to enhance pliability that comes with higher temps.

Pace cars keep a steady high speed so the drivers can allow gaps to build in which they can accelerate and close the gap. Similar to a burnout effect for drag racers, builds heat in the rear tires so they don't spin on the starts. The acceleration also allows them to clean out their intakes for an abundance of fuel will build up in low idle situations

 

This.. and the pace car is set to pit road speed. The race cars do not have a speedometer on board and thus rely on an RPM reading, taken during the initial pace laps, to gauge their pit road speed.

 

Every track is different and every team has just a tad bit different gearing involved. The reading is an individual number arrived at by each team / driver.

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Wouldn't experience at some point at least give you some ability to "feel" the speed?

 

Pie for the intellectual question :)

Pit speed at Charlotte is either 50 or 55 mph.. They recently changed it for that track so I can't recall. It may even be 60 mph.

 

Anywho.. A driver is allowed 5mph in excess of the pit speed limit. A driver is required to determine his pit speed during the pace laps for this reason. He gauges the speed of the pace car and sets his gauges to trigger red when he is above a certain point, in relation to that exact RPM range.

 

When you are zinging in and out of cars on pit road with sometimes the amount of .1 mph being the difference between speeding and winning the race off pit road it does factually matter. Quite a bit.

 

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