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| Ev Archive for July 2001 |
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| 1471 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:52:55 2001 |
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Re: Sparrow II
>Whether it makes sense or not it happens. Why, I don't know. But I have
>seen it on numerous occasions in stock car racing. Normally the vehicle
>gets tapped or something and starts to slide sideways. It will slide for
>quite a ways sideways (with nobody near by) and then suddenly flip and start
>to tumble.
>Maybe it's because it has slowed down enough that the tires finally grab, I
>don't know.
It takes very little sliding (like this) to kill a racing tire, so
it's more likely the tire has shredded by that time, and it's the
wheel that grabs.
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Michael Haseltine -- Tucson, Arizona
Subvert the dominant paradigm, drive electric!
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