Question of the day

[spkennyuk]

I think Zags was at least mostly right

C

Shall i be the judge of that lol

 

[drewf]

Drew in "once was wrong" shocker!!!

You don't work for me do you?

I have been wrong before... And on both occasions I admitted it

 

[spkennyuk]

Over to you Zags your question.

 

[CatmanV2]

You don't work for me do you?

I have been wrong before... And on both occasions I admitted it

<stores for future use>

C

 

[drewf]

****. Three times...

 

[BennyD]

Isn't that now 4?

 

[Contigo]

He's like Multi-storey Car Theft, wrong on every level!

 

[spkennyuk]

He's like Multi-storey Car Theft, wrong on every level!

That joke was cleaned up a bit from the version I heard. That must be the "U" rated version

 

[CatmanV2]

That joke was cleaned up a bit from the version I heard. That must be the "U" rated version

Time Vine won the best joke of the year award with that.

C

 

[zagatoes30]

Not sure how I was right as I was no where near the location

 

[CatmanV2]

Not sure how I was right as I was no where near the location

Right person.

C

 

[zagatoes30]

OK, as some of us have Le Mans on our minds

Why were chicanes introduced on the Mulsanne straight ?

 

[drewf]

To prevent the tyres overheating by reducing the time spent at around 250mph

 

[zagatoes30]

To prevent the tyres overheating by reducing the time spent at around 250mph

Nope

 

[drewf]

Are you sure? FIA said no straights longer than 2km, so ACO installed 2 of them, but the reason was to reduce time spent at around 250mph.

 

[zagatoes30]

Now that is correct.

The FIA had been looking at ways to slow the cars down on the Mulsanne for a number of years and all technical changes failed, to the point that in 1988 the WM-P88 Peugeot reached 253. So the FIA came up with the no straight longer than 2km which led to both chicanes being introduced for the 1990 race and forced top speeds to reduce.

In 2014 the fastest Toyota & Audi clocked just under 211 mph whilst the 1990 Nissan R90 in the classic support race was 3rd with 210.1 mph.

 

[drewf]

Drivers didn't like it much either, as they didn't get the long 'rest' down the Mulsanne.

I'm out most of the day Zags, please set another.

 

[zagatoes30]

Claudio Langes holds the record for what?

 

[StuartW]

I think I heard about him recently, doesn't he have the poorest record in F1?

 

[zagatoes30]

I think I heard about him recently, doesn't he have the poorest record in F1?

Correct, in 1990 he entered 14 consecutive races and failed to qualify for any of them. His qualification times were often up to 15 secs slower than his team mate in the same car.

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