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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: An extra fat NSSN?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 13:14:24 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
Reply-To: leres@ee.lbl.gov (ucbvax!leres for uucp weenies)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.6

The "year-end triple issue" of the National Speed Sport News arrived a
few days ago and I just got around to reading it. Since they won't be
putting out another issue until January 13th, this one has a lot in it.
But apparently my copy is fatter than most; it contains TWO copies of
page 33 thorugh 84...

One interesting tidbit, to the IROC series will race at Darlington for
the first time on March 27th. (The bad news is that ABC will again
cover the four races, not that this is any surprise.)

		Craig
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From: Richard.Banks@launchpad.unc.edu (Richard Banks)
Subject: Temporary weight reduction on F1 cars
Summary: Temporary weight reduction on F1 cars
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:47:36 GMT

I'm not sure what FISA's rules are, but why can't F1 teams just
add all extra weight they need using water, after weigh in dump the
water, then during the course of the race, such as the last half of the
race,->* turn on a condenser scoop of some kind to convert the air to
water and have the water run back into the tank where the dumped
water was!?!<-* This would bring the cars back up to regulation weight
and they would not be in any violation of the rules, right?

-Rich "always thinking of some non-technical way to make those F1
cars go faster" Banks

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From: fia@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jaime Sanchez 3574)
Subject: Re: Nissan Team
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 15:49:10 GMT

In article <1hnr8sINNhpl@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> as789@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Francisco J. Diaz) writes:
>
> Hi All! Can anyone update me on what's going on with the Nissan
>IMSA GTP racing team? What are their plans for next year? What
>about their drivers? (Geoff and Chip)..Thanx! :-)
>-- 
>|     Francisco J. Diaz Rivera     |                           |

Well is at would appear at this time it looks as though Nissan is going to
go Indy Car racing next year. There was a "garage sale", just prior to the
Del Mar G.P., at the NPTI shop in North San Diego. A friend of mine went to
the garage sale to see what was up for grabs, etc. Well at one point a doorway
leading to another area of the shop was opened by someone exiting that area as
my friend and his buddy were walking by and in this area of the shop they 
spyed an Indy chassis. Now the weekend of the Del Mar G.P. I was in the Nissan
hot pit area during Friday' s practice and simply asked Geoff and Chip what 
their plans were for next year. Bothe had not a clue and I don't think they
were, honetly, sure what was goning on for next year. The garage sale at NPTI 
was held shortly after major reduction in it's staff. This may be old news to 
you all but you never know.

Jim

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From: jaslow@bissun.kodak.com (Russell Jaslow)
Subject: Re: F1/INDY BLA,BLA,BLA...
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:34:12 GMT

>Since the definition of foreigner is somewhat ambiguous (we are
>all foreigners in most countries of this world ;-)  I assume she
>meant to say that Emmo became the first non-US driver to win Indy.
>This is incorrect.  I don't know who was the first (where are those
>Indy historians?!), but Jim Clark (GB) won Indy in 1965 and Graham
>Hill (GB) won it in 1966.
>
I believe it was Jules Goux in 1913.  That was the driver who downed a 
glass of champagne (French of course) at every pit stop for a total of 7
on the day.  As you can tell from my .sig, not something I endorse!
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From: marti@nugget.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
Subject: Re: F1 Tests at Le Castellet
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:20:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.151218.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>,
comptec92070@camins.camosun.bc.ca writes:

The Sunday newspaper listed some of the times from Saturday's session.
(Sorry, but I was away on Monday ... )  For once, the Sauber team
did not fare very well as they were plagued by various problems related
to electronics.

1. Hill, Williams-Renault, 1:14.27
2. Aliot (!), Larrousse-Lamborghini (*), 1:14.57
3. Prost, Williams-Renault, 1:14.64
4. Brundell [sic!], McLaren-Ford [sic!], 1:05.21
5. Andretti, McLaren-Ford [sic!], 1:05.29
6. Lehto, Sauber, 1:05.49
7. Schumacher, Benetton-Ford, 1:05.53
8. Herbert, Lotus-Ford (*), 1:05.85
14. (and last!) Wendlinger, Sauber, 1:07.38

(*) These cars were still in 1992 config.

One last remark:  Considering that someone named Brundell is listed,
I have a few doubts about the accuracy of the above data.  In
particular, I would be curious if McLaren really used Ford engines.
(After all, the posting I follow up stated that they were still using
borrowed Handa engines which would make sense to me.)

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From: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: Nissan Team
Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:12:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, greg.roberts@dwarp.sccsi.com (Greg Roberts) says:

>
>
>FJD} Hi All! Can anyone update me on what's going on with the Nissan
>FJD}IMSA GTP racing team? What are their plans for next year? What
>FJD}about their drivers? (Geoff and Chip)..Thanx! :-)
>
>Nissan has decided to withdraw from GTP next year, as has Mazda.
>
>Nissan has hinted that it wants to go IndyCar racing.


Would they make both the engine and chassis?
>---
> . SLMR 2.1a #796 . Not that I recommend it, but here's how to......
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>
From: danjones@pyramid.COM (Dan Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Trivia Quiz (F1 and CanAm)
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:30:47 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View, California
NNTP-Posting-Host: xploit.eng.pyramid.com

From the Jan/Feb '93 issue of Vintage Motorsport:

    Name the 9 builders who have fielded both F1 and Can-Am cars.

I can think of a sure 8 but my 9th is a little shakey.  E-mail me
your answers and I'll post the results in a week or two.

Dan Jones
From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Names of bends in GP circuits
Date: 1 Jan 93 23:03:03 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

Greetings all,
in a (horrbily difficult) quiz I'm doing one of the questions gives 10
names of bends (corners? what is the correct english word?) in GP race
circuits and I have to find out the names of the tracks. All means of
obtaining the information are allowed, so that is why I turn here for
information. If anyone could tell me which circuits the bends below
are part of I would be very much obliged.

	Barbeque
	Bolderberg
	Druids
	Flatschach
	Linden
	Massenet
	Pegaso
	Sainte Baume
	Scheivlak
	Serraglio
	
(I have heard that Bolderberg is on the Nuernburg ring and Scheivlak
on the Zandvoort circuit, but have not been able to verify this yet).

Alternatively, a pointer to a book which describes race tracks would
be appreciated.

Oh yeah, please reply by mail since I'm not a regular subscriber to
this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
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Jack Jansen        | If I can't dance I don't want to be part of
Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl | your revolution             -- Emma Goldman
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From: uhdcs@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: test please ignore
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:46:39 GMT
Reply-To: uhdcs@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University

this is just a test
From: Richard.Banks@launchpad.unc.edu (Richard Banks)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: F3000 and Cig and Alcohol Ads
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:37:04 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service


But do I still have a chance to make it to F1?

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From: kheikola@polaris.utu.fi (Kai Markus Heikola)
Subject: AutoSport fax #, anyone?
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 20:13:56 GMT

Could someone of you lucky AutoSport readers email me their fax number ?
Thanx in advance,

Kai
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:07:35 EST
From: <BWF2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: More NSSN info


In article <Bzoswu.8xF@ncube.com>, bob@ncube.com (Bob Kehoe) says:


>One other highlight that I saw was that
>Al Unser Jr. is slated to drive a Rick Hendrick
>Chebbie in the Daytona 500, wrenched by
>Waddell Wilson.  We'll have to wait and see on
>this one, as at one time Al was supposed to run
>at the season finale at Atlanta.
>bob

   I believe I head the same on RACEDAY this past
   Sunday 12-20-92. I never head why Wilson and Rudd
   split up. Anyone know?
 Brian
From: met@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Millam Tackitt)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: Where is that AutoSport summary?
Date: 1 Jan 93 20:00:13 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

In article <1993Jan1.185643.1@vax1.tcd.ie> scolucci@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>In article <1i0aibINN3kl@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks) writes:
>> 
>> What happened to the guy who does those AutoSport summaries?
>> Not all of us get that magazines, you know.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>
>I'm sure that "the guy" is under absolutely no obligation to provide summaries
>for anyone, sir.
>
>regards,
>Serge

I think that he was looking for Bob Kehoe, who hopefully will rejoin us
soon. His Summaries and reports were so very welcome and informative!
I don't think that Richard meant in any way that "the guy" was obligated
to anyone, but after posting for so long it seems to be part and parcel
of this service. I was also curious as to "the guy" and his whereabouts.

May EVERYONE enjoy a happier and more prosperous new year!!!!
Millam E. Tackitt
.
From: TBACKMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Timo B{ckman TF)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: About F1 (and a little bit of INDY)
Date: 22 Dec 92 06:52:20 GMT
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


Todays newspaper had some interesting notices. Senna has tested a Penske car.
"This does not mean that he will drive for us" said a spokesman for Penske.
Yeah, believe it or not.

Mark Blundell, who has been testing for McLaren (only last week), has signed
a contact with Ligier. This means that he's no longer a candidate for the
second McLAren seat if Senne goes INDY.

There has been a major test at Paul Ricard. Does anybody know the results?
The notice said that Williams and Sauber were much faster than Benetton. 
Schumacher had explained that they drove with much fuel in their cars. Please
if you have times from this testing mail them to me.

The was also a notice about the fact that Ligier no more owns the Ligier team.
I would like to know who the new owners are, who is team manager and so on.
Thanks in advance.


Merry Christmas

Timo Backman
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From: gturrell@bmdhh256.bnr.ca (Graham Turrell)
Subject: Motorsports Telemetry info request
Organization: BNR-Europe-Limited, Maidenhead, England
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:13:31 GMT

Hi,
	I am trying to find out about the use of on-board computers
	and telemetry systems used in F1 / Indy cars. This includes
	history & regulations governing their use (if any) as well as
	the technical aspects.

	Does anybody out there know where I can get hold of this kind
	of info ?

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From: dp54@mc4adm.UWaterloo.ca (Rob Silcher)
Subject: Re: Flame! (Re: senna in indycars)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:58:13 GMT

In article <38076@cbmvax.commodore.com> bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking) writes:
>In article <3380056@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> boell@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Donald P Boell) writes:
>>>Dangerous driving style ??
>>>Please lets not get back on this subject , but what a stupid remark to make ...
>>
>>Stupid?  Try accurate.  How many cars will Senna punt intentionally this
>>year?
>
>Well, if he drives in F1, the only cars that he might want to punt
>will be the ones he'll be unable to catch <g>.  If he tries it at Indy
>he'll likely acquire some major injuries for his efforts (either from
>the crash or from the beating given him by the team members - his, as
>well as others'.)
>

I seem to remember a few drivers that punted other cars off at Indy and other
Cart races last year.  However I don't recall anyone 'beating' on anyone else.

Specifically, Danny Sullivan took out Al Jr. in a road course to take a win.
Little Al's response 'that's racing'.

I think any driver is more likely to be attacked in F1 than in Indy for punting
someone out of a race.  Indy drivers tend to be much more forgiving. Except 
maybe Mario ;)

Rob Silcher dp54@mc4adm.UWaterloo.ca
From: lmcstst@noah.ericsson.se (Stamos Stamos)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: Temporary weight reduction on F1 cars
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:36:35 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Communications Inc. Montreal, Canada
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

In article <1992Dec22.154736.16841@samba.oit.unc.edu> Richard.Banks@launchpad.unc.edu (Richard Banks) writes:
>I'm not sure what FISA's rules are, but why can't F1 teams just
>add all extra weight they need using water, after weigh in dump the
>water, then during the course of the race, such as the last half of the
>race,->* turn on a condenser scoop of some kind to convert the air to
>water and have the water run back into the tank where the dumped
>water was!?!<-* This would bring the cars back up to regulation weight
>and they would not be in any violation of the rules, right?
>
>-Rich "always thinking of some non-technical way to make those F1
>cars go faster" Banks
>


Only viable if the car is way under the weight limit to begin with. (how much does a
condenser weigh?)
Then the question is how much weight loss is this system worth?
Say 15 kilos, thats about 15 liters of water. 
This is a large amount of water. You would need one mighty large scoop and
one mighty cold condenser to 'scoop' 15 liters of water on you last lap!


Plus how would you dump it to begin with? On the track? Could cause spins.(although
someone who would implement such a scheme might think this was an added benefit)
Maybe you could dump it through the exhaust, as the Hondas dump oil, but thats
not as effective in obstructing the view of the following driver.










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From: bob@ncube.com (Bob Kehoe)
Subject: Re: '93 Indycar TV schedule
Organization: nCUBE Computers, Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:10:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.203353.13432@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>|>September 20 - Pocono - ESPN - 9-11pm
>
>Pocono??  I thought the 2nd to last race of the season was held in Nazareth,
>PA.
>

Sorry, you're right - I misread the schedule.  The
official terminology is Pennsylvania Int'l Raceway
in Lower Nazereth Township.

bob

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From: ah179@yfn.ysu.edu (Brian Wilson)
Subject: LeMans 93
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:31:43 GMT


Does the ACO plan to use the chicanes on the Mulsanne straight
for the 1993 24 hours?  I figured that they might not use them
since the FIA will not be sanctioning the event (or supporting
it at least).
 
I think that the race will have some good potential with some
of the older cars (turbos, rotaries, large-bores) compete with
some 3.5 liters and the like.
-- 
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From: andy@poe.cs.clemson.edu (Andrew J. Greenshields N3IGS)
Subject: Re: F1 Tests at Le Castellet
Organization: Clemson University Computer Science Dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:42:47 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.082044.22840@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> marti@nugget.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti) writes:
>
>1. Hill, Williams-Renault, 1:14.27
> ...
>4. Brundell [sic!], McLaren-Ford [sic!], 1:05.21
>5. Andretti, McLaren-Ford [sic!], 1:05.29
> ...

  It looks like the McLarens and others are about 9 seconds faster
than the Williams.  Is this a typo, should the McLaren times read
1:15:21, or were these times set on different days, different track
layout or am I missing something?


Thanks


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From: bob@ncube.com (Bob Kehoe)
Subject: '93 Indycar TV schedule
Organization: nCUBE Computers, Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:03:06 GMT

* All times listed are Eastern
** Air dates and times subject to change

March 21 - Australia - ABC - 2-4pm
April 4 - Phoenix - ABC - 4-6pm
April 18 - Long Beach - ABC - 4-6pm
May 15/16 - Indy Qualifying - ABC/ESPN - (no time)
May 22/23 - Indy Qualifying - ABC/ESPN - (no time)
May 30 - Indy - ABC - 11am-3:30pm
June 6 - Milwaukee - ABC - 1-3pm
June 13 - Belle Isle - ABC - 3-5:30pm
June 27 - Portland - ESPN - 4-6:30pm
July 11 - Cleveland - ABC - 1:30-3:30pm
July 18 - Toronto - ABC - 4-6pm
August 1 - Michigan - ABC - 2-5pm
August 8 - Loudon - ESPN - 3:30-5:30pm
August 22 - Road America - ESPN - 2-4:30pm
August 30 - Vancouver, BC - ESPN - 9-11pm
September 12 - Mid-Ohio - ESPN - 1-3:30pm
September 20 - Pocono - ESPN - 9-11pm
October 3 - Laguna Seca - ESPN - 9-11pm


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From: lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Subject: Re: John Berton
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:44:43 GMT

In article <BzH2CE.A61@encore.com> wcarroll@encore.com (William Carroll) writes:
>danjones@pyramid.COM (Dan Jones) writes:
>>John Berton who used to do the F1 reports for r.a.s.
>
>Speaking of which, whatever happened to John? His race reports were
>often the best recap of a race I saw. This season seemed to be missing
>something without them.

I had some E-mail communication with him last year...mostly asking for reports 
I'd missed.  The last time we "talked", he had gotten a job with ILM, the
California company that does special effects/imaging work for the movies.
You can see John's name in the credits for Terminator II.  I think he was
a PhD student before that.

Sadly, he was suffering a syndrome common to many of us where a significantly
increased work load interfering with his duties to the net.  Priorities
being what they are, it looks like the job won...probably has a family to
feed or something :-)  I think there was a South Africa report but it was
a short one and I don't think there were any after that.

I totally agree with Mr. Carroll above...John's "retirement" has been a
great loss to net.racing.  Perhaps he'll do a Nigel and come out of
retirement next season (but not to do Indycar Reports!).

Let's wish him well wherever he is...

His retirement
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From: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Where is that AutoSport summary?
Date: 1 Jan 1993 02:33:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


What happened to the guy who does those AutoSport summaries?
Not all of us get that magazines, you know.

Thanks.
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Subject: N.Z. Alantic Series
From: educ064@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:28:59 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

EDUC064
The New Zealand Atlantic series start off on january 2nd at Timaru.A promising
entry of 18 cars led by Texans Stuart Crowe,Charles Neerburg(Ralt America)Rt40
and anoth Ralt for English F3 runner James Taylor.
Also from America Gene Pope in a Swift with Cameron of Nz in the other Pope
racing car a Reynard.
The locals are led off by Kenny Smith(Swift)Paul Radiusich(Swift)Craig Baird
back from Europe Driving a Reynard also.
There will also be a demonstration race at each round between Kenny Smith F1
Leyton House March and Roger Freeth in a Lola Indy car.
Chris.
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From: jaslow@bissun.kodak.com (Russell Jaslow)
Subject: Re: Williams F1
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:37:33 GMT

>I think I heard somewhere that Alan Kulwicki is the first WC Champ with
>a college degree.  I know AK is a college boy, but is he really the first?
>And how many IndyCar champs have degrees, Bobby Rahal has a degree from 
>Denison, he was a couple years ahead of John Berton who used to do the 
>F1 reports for r.a.s.
>
I remember when Alan Kulwicki won his first WC race, it was mentioned that
he was only the second NASCAR driver with a college degree to win (I can't
remember who was the first).  Therefore, the fact that he is the first 
college graduate to win the championship makes sense.
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Rochester, New York    |Cynthia Bishop Halstead.  Keep |Cup!  Why |to do with
jaslow@bissun.kodak.com|the damn drunks off our roads! |not dream?|my drivel.