Well,
There's something you don't see every day.
One of the race cars hit a truck with this big jet engine in the back of it that's used for drying a wet track.
The fire from the jet engine is probably going to damage the track.
PHM
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Well,
There's something you don't see every day.
One of the race cars hit a truck with this big jet engine in the back of it that's used for drying a wet track.
The fire from the jet engine is probably going to damage the track.
PHM
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I went to the shop to clean some cosmoline off of some drawer slides I'm dry fitting. I came back into to fill my coffee cup and found that.
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....
I'm watching that too. Holy smokes, what a fire!!!
Last edited by Bruce Page; 02-27-2012 at 11:48 PM.
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Have they done any racing? I was eating dinner a couple hours ago and every time I looked up at the tvs in the restaurant there was a caution.
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There's been a lot of firsts for this running of the race.
I once saw a two car jet car drag race from Canada. The light turned green, one car went the other exploded. Right there on the starting line. The driver came walking out like something from a movie. In terms of impressiveness, this one pretty well matches it.
Last edited by Anthony Whitesell; 02-27-2012 at 10:14 PM.
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I think they're going to call the race and #36 is going to win it.
Matt they're on lap 160 out of 200 so yeah they got a fair amount of it in.
PHM
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Brilliant move on the one officials part, running under the plume of fuel running down the track as it catches on fire.
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+4 on that, he is a loose canon on the track.Originally Posted by Bruce Page
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Jaun Pablo Bodine? Maybe? Back when there where two Bodine's on the track, one or both of them was guaranteed to cause a caution.
But yeah, he seems to be centered around some of the more dumb incidents on the track.
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Quite a conflagration!!!
I hate this time of year, only one of the holy trinity of motorsports has started... MotoGP and F1 are yet to start, only WRC has. Yep, I said it. Let the flames begin.
I feel this way even though I learned to build engines as a kid in Bud Moore's shop, he was the first non-driver to be elected to the NASCAR HOF excluding the France boys.
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A pretty famous shop. For decades the #15 team. I think at one time (maybe when he was just getting started) Dale Earnhardt drove for him.
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They use trucks with jet engines on them to dry the track? Seriously?
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Zach, The jet engine isnt propelling the truck. It's mounted on the back of the truck with the jet exhaust pointed down at the track. To dry a wet track. The truck drives around the track real slow, maybe 5 miles per hour, under its own power.
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Yeah, I sort of assumed that much. I figured it would work like a giant blow dryer. It's sort of like the asphalt equivalent of a zamboni?
But a JET ENGINE? Couldn't a giant fan achieve the same thing?
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