by pws <pwshelton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 5, 2008 at 09:09 AM
Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> Why doesn't someone do that? Drive an F1 car upside down! That could get
a
> crowd excited!
>
> Chris
> 99BBB
I wondered that myself. It would require either being able to smoothly
climb a wall and onto the ceiling at over 81mph, which could be tricky
or even impossible. (Leon?)
The other possibility that I see is to have the car hooked onto the
ceiling with a mechanism of some sort that releases once enough speed
has been attained.
That would require building a ceiling that will work as well as a road,
assuming that one does not already exist.
I would want to see the second option tested without a driver first,
though a short and straight drop onto the roof at 90 mph or so might not
be nearly as bad as some of the wrecks that occur during racing at much
higher speeds.
Losing a F1 car in an experiment would not be the greatest thing, but
various people spend millions of dollars on silly things every day.
Pat
