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Владимир Коваленко:
-----Original Message-----
From: Mel Anthony [mailto:MethanolMel@msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:02 AM
To: history
Subject: [RH] re-URA
The Muir Brothers from California came to Seattle with their two V 8 60 midgets in 1946. Both brothers, Stan and Johnny, had raced in the UNited Racing Assocation, of Southern California. In 1945, the newly formed assocation was a consolidation of rival forces of the former United Midget Assocation, and the West coast branch of A.A.A. The groups were then divided into Red and Blue divisions. The Red was V 8 60 and outboards, or any engine except the Offy. The Blue was strictly all Offy. The Red could come run with the Blue, but few did, as the Offy was superior. Rodger Ward was an exception when he won the main at Gilmore in a V 8 60, against a field of Offys.
Mel Anthony
Владимир Коваленко:
-----Original Message-----
From: Blaylock, Bill [mailto:w-blaylock@ti.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:04 AM
To: RacingHistory@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [RH] Re: Speedway Moves
I wonder if we can get comments about racing maneuvers on speedways, that is the movements the driver did with the car on ovals, whether they are short or long, paved or dirt (front engined cars only, thank you). I would list some of them below, but I'm sure you guys and gals could add a lot. I'm also curious if the moves had names.
1. Regular racing groove (don't know what else to call it) -- Come into the turn high, cut down to an apex (maybe a "late apex") and drift back up to the wall. This is simply turning the car through as big a radius as possible.
2. Run the cushion -- On a dirt track, come in high, plant the right rear on the cushion and ride it around, rev's up. As the cushion moves up, you move up with it. When it's gone, you've got to search around for a new groove.
3. Run a high all the way around -- Even on pavement this is sometimes the fastest (like Turns 3&4 at Indianapolis Raceway Park).
4. Diamond off a turn -- Come in low, drift up high, then come out low again, or make it a two apex turn. I'm guessing here, but it seems like you would only do this in traffic (unless there are bad spots on the track, etc.). Again, I'm guessing, but this may not be considered the fast way around.
-- Maybe another version is to come down off a high banked corner, drop down and come off the corner low, to take advantage of the drop in elevation. I saw A.J. do this in a qualifying session in a stock car. He talked about it later. I don't think he actually did it in the race.
5. Slide job -- To make a pass, come in low and outbrake the guy ahead and get past him, drift up in front of him and get off the corner the best way you can (which by that time is almost always better than he can get off the corner).
-- I've seen this on both dirt and pavement up to a half mile. . . could you do this on a mile or at Indy?
6. Late brake -- Following a guy down the straight, at the end, move to the inside, brake later than he does. If you go in side by side he will get out of rhythm for the exit (assuming there's no high groove available to him). If he's clever, he may let you go so you will get in ahead of him, drift up high and get a little out of shape; then he will tuck under you for the exit.
7. Early brake -- When someone is right behind you, as you go into the turn, brake a little early. The guy behind gets on the brakes hard and loses momentum. If he taps your rear end, hopefully it only brings you back up to speed. This might only work with maybe two laps to go. The best "early brake" I think I ever saw was on Thursday Night Thunder back in the eighties when Bev Griffis won the feature at Speedrome. With about two laps to go, there was a guy chasing her who was faster, and she bounced him back about three car lengths and hung on to the checkered.
8. Drafting -- Probably only works on paved tracks 1.5 miles or longer. Time it so you swing out -- either high or low -- about 3/4 down the straightaway.
9. I'm curious what you would do when you've got a push or when the car gets loose (and you don't have any adjustment left in the weight jacker). Do you blip the throttle differently, do different moves with the steering wheel and brakes? Today, when someone has a push (stock car or IRL), the in-car camera typically shows the driver just hanging the steering over farther to the left, like there isn't much else he can do. But maybe there was something else you could do in a front engine car.
I realize that some of these moves may have gotten you a one-way ticket to "Fist City" in the pits afterward, but we might save that for a later discussion.
Hope I did not ramble too much here, but I would think a lot of you could add some interesting comments and corrections about racing moves.
Regards, Bill Blaylock
Владимир Коваленко:
Программа 200-мильной гонки в Атлантик-Сити, состоявшейся 7 апреля 1927 года и входившей в зачёт чемпионата ААА. Крайне интересный документ. Из него, в частности, можно узнать, что перед основной гонкой состоялся 75-мильный заезд серийных автомобилей. Основная гонка так и характеризуется - "championship race". В то время в чемпионате ААА участвовали самые большие гоночные автомобили, но их ещё не называли "большими" (big cars), потому что ещё не появились "маленькие" (миджеты - midgets). Когда же разных классов автомобилей стало больше, и конкурирующие организации по-разному стали называть сходные классы автомобилей, появилось название "champ cars", возрождённое после отделения ИРЛ от КАРТа.
Другой интересный сайт - The History of Automobile Racing at Oakley, Kansas.
Владимир Коваленко:
Интересная заметка есть на "Моторспорт-ком": http://www.motorsport.com/magazine/feature.asp?C=Mirrors&D=2000-05-16.
Разница между миджетами, спринт-карами и т.н. "большими" автомобилями обсуждается на "Ностальгии" в теме Big cars, sprint cars, midgets.
Владимир Коваленко:
ААА начала свою спортивную деятельность с "Туров Глиддена", длинных пробегов на выносливость, проводившихся с 1905 по 1913 годы, а потом переключилась на кольцевые гонки. В первые 20 лет ХХ века в Америке одинаково хорошо развивались как дорожные гонки с раздельным стартом, так и трековые с общим. Пик популярности дорожных гонок пришёлся на разгар I Мировой войны в Европе. Когда я разбирал статистику с различных сайтов, то сначала подумал, что авторы понапихали в военные годы хоть что-нибудь, лишь бы избежать пустоты. Но оказалось, что эти американские гонки действительно были очень популярны.
Как раз тогда возникла первая конкуренция между санкционирующими организациями, которыми были ААА и АКА (Автомобильный клуб Америки). Они проводили свои соревнования на одних и тех же трассах с разницей в несколько дней. ААА проводила гонку на кубок Вандербильдта, а АКА - американский гран-при. Знаменитыми стали гонки в Элджине.
А потом это как-то всё пропало. В 20-е годы в Америке остались только трековые гонки, причём, информации о них сохранилось мало.
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