Official Garage Gang Hangout Raceday Points Club II

[Yosemite Sam]

1st: Truex
2nd: Bubba
3rd: Elliott

[alenigma]

The Lord above may have a say in the track activity at Talladega this weekend.

I think you are right….My sources say scattered thunderstorms and showers… Can anyone say rain tires

You can't use rain tyres on a superspeedway....but floatation devises might help.

[Annalee]

GEICO 500
Talladega Superspeedway
Sunday, April 21, 3:00pm/et
TV: FOX
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM
Stage Laps: 60/120/188
Qualifying: 10:30am-12:00pm/et, Sat., April 21. TV-FS1.
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RACE PICKS DEADLINE……Sunday, April 21, 2:30pm/et
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Yosemite Sam…….1st: Truex,2nd: Bubba,3rd: Elliott

[Annalee]

[Annalee]

IROC IS BACK…..

NEWS:
IROC has announced plans to host their first event in nearly 20 years.

Event will take place on July 19-20 at Lime Rock Park as a part of the SpeedTour All-Star Race weekend.

It will feature an on-track racing exhibition and a static display.

[Yosemite Sam]

IROC IS BACK…..

NEWS:
IROC has announced plans to host their first event in nearly 20 years.

Event will take place on July 19-20 at Lime Rock Park as a part of the SpeedTour All-Star Race weekend.

It will feature an on-track racing exhibition and a static display.

They will also be showing an ELECTRIC car. What has become of our sport with electric cars? Won't be long that you'll have a (Cup Racing) controller, operator of controller. No other ppl needed cause tires will be made of a special Kevlar compound. No need for gas man, it's electric.

[alenigma]

Electric Slide off turn 2! Car in flames! Water trucks dispatched boogie oogie oogie!

[beaverpond]

water and electricity don't mix...they are going to need a different mix of chemicals to put out those car fires and even then, those are going to be a whole bigger mess to clean up. You thought a gasoline engine fire was a challenge to clean up, try cleaning up a battery powered vehicle because those can burn for hours after you thought it was out.

This info from the fire chief in North Conway who dealt with three of them on Mount Washington last year. Just when they thought the fire was out, it reignited itself a few hours later and then several hours after that. They do use Class D chemical to extinguish this type of fire, but the fire starts in one cell and spreads from there. The problem when you attack this type of fire, you may put out the fire in these cells, the cells can heat up and spread to others. You actually have to get all the cells into a cold state and you can't use something similar to dry ice because this will cause the cells to leak and then you have a totally different problem altogether.

This is why Toyota is experimenting with a battery cell that does not use lithium battery cell for charging and recharging, it uses a series of microchips and when one microchip goes bad all you have to do is replace that chip. They are testing it in Japan right now and it will be about five years before they do mass production into all vehicles in other countries. They are looking to try this in a racing series in Japan in a year or so and Toyota will be the guinea pig for this experiment. They want to see how fast, for how long, and what happens to the battery in a wreck for those in a lithium battery and those using the microchips so they can see the differences in performance and damage and injury or worse.

I wonder how much they are going to pay these guinea pigs to be these drivers knowing they could die in this experiment.

[Annalee]

In the next subdivision, someone bought a new electric …..Took it out for a drive, came home and parked it in the garage….It caught fire and the whole house burned to the ground in ten minutes…It was an all brick house..The family was able to escape…The fire department said it was the hottest fire that couldn’t be put out because water just made the fire worse…You couldn’t give me an electric car….After seeing that ..


I also think this is why you are hearing rumors of Tony Stewart selling his charters…

[beaverpond]

Looking at the top 16 by manufacturer
4 Fords
6 Chevys
6 Toyotas

Looking at winners
6 different winners
2 with multiple wins

Looking at top 16 teams
4 Gibbs Teams
1 RFK
1 SHR
2 Penske
2 23XI
4 Hendrick
1 RCR
1 Trackhouse