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If anything, Newman's car helped to take away momentum, which made the hit into the fence much less severe than it could have been.
Umm...I might have to say no here. Flaps were up and the 99 was both slowing down and landing. It would have still been a nasty hit, but it would have it the wall and not the fence at all. With the 39 going at full tilt and circumstance putting the 39 under the 99, for all intensive purposes Newman added to the momentum when they hit, but most of that sent Edwards up rather than ahead.....
Did I just try to use physics in a forum post? I really have lost my mind.
Back to my Strictly Stock idea then. You made a valid point in manufacturer support, and while I do believe it would be more of a "Weekend Warrior" ordeal, I don't think that DIRECT support would be necessary, partly due to what the series would allow. As I already said, enough mandatory changes to be safe, but a factory car otherwise. No, the "Big 3" almost certainly wouldn't even allow this entire concept to be spoken in their HQ's, but what about the dealerships and the independent shops. I have seen them sponsor race teams before, but what if they had a chance to put some of their cars, or their drivers, on display in person. I can't tell you how many ads I see, and promptly ignore, that just bounce off, and everyone has heard of a few horror stories, what if you can get them to say, "Well the cars ARE already billboards, perhaps if we actually get involved we can bring some more business in."
That is the starter, but then the first roadblock is, "But how are we going to do that with what we have now? We can't afford a new car every week." And this is the point where I show them their own shop, and there will be a shop involved because leaving a daily driver parked in the open can be nerve wracking alone, I can only imagine a project car being left in the open anywhere not considered the "middle of nowhere". You point them to the shop, and suggest that it be taken care of by the guys who know what it is supposed to be already. The mechanics will know the car, and the young techs will learn about it, and in a time when standard operation means replace everything, this will give all those guys who went to school something to put that education to work with, as opposed to recalling the part number of a replacement part that never gets used anyway.
Thinking about it, there would still be an issue of parts, and while mechanical and electrical parts would need to be replaced eventually, these would still be road cars meaning the engines are designed to go 100,000 miles instead of the 1000 that most of the purpose built race engines go for, and same for the drivetrain and the body panels. Yes, body panels, these cars will be running at short tracks and local tracks of all varieties 1 mile and under, exceptions being road courses and street circuits, so while contact will occur I don't think constantly fixing the door dings will be worth it. Touch up the paint, reapply decals, fix what is broke, then go do it all again.
Yeah....that's all weaker than hell too. 🤬.
Some more paint schemes(All of them are ugly imo).
New Ford truck, ugly as sin if you ask me.
Wasn't the 55 going to have yellow accents, like the car they showed off DURING last season?
42 is pretty much unchanged, DG 20 IS unchanged, who are these "Reser's", 16 has a noble cause but Jack must either be letting people come to him or let anyone willing to pony up on the cars.
As for the truck. The Tundra wasn't great, the GMs are boring, but the new F-150 beats them all by beating itself with the ugly stick. This though is just half-🤬 crap.
