Just imagine- you want realism?

You fire it up, and are greeted by a grating crash and the crackle of
flames...and, of course, a black screen to simulate the loss of
conciousness. The darkness clears, offering a view of a clear blue sky
and the faces of the ambulance crew strapping you to the stretcher.
The clouds whiz by as the wheel you rapidly across the tarmac,
followed by the awesome sight of the underside of an ambulance roof.
Sirens and engine sounds sampled from real life emergency equipment
highlight the trip to the medical center, where you're presented with
an immersive experience- several trauma doctors were enlisted to make
sure this part was just right.

Depending on the injury (purely random, using a 266 Mhz number
generator. Could be a broken back, a fractured leg, even a badly
broken pelvis!)the simulation moves on to the exciting part: Watching
non-IRL drivers racing on TV for up to a year!

Maybe work in a cheat code to have AJ Foyt toss his paperweight..errr,
laptop at you, too...what potential this has!

I simply cannot believe that drivers I used to respect are stupid
enough to strap into those crapwagons...at the rate they go, I imagine
I'll be getting a call from Penske by the end of the year.

And the difference between IRL and CART in terms of safety is? But you know
what, IRL has the better safety team. And, doesn't CART race at 240 mph in
California? Come on, you hate the IRL, but the two series are the same in
terms of dangers involved.

PS How many drivers have died in IRL cars? Compare that to CART and then
think about making comments like these. Not to mention injuries suffered by
drivers in both series.

PSS Racing is a dangerous sport, doesn't matter the vehicle.


"Scott Moore" <fourwhldrift (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote

Two drivers (off the top of my head) have died in CART since the inception
of the IRL.




"Matt Knutsen" <newsspam (AT) knutspeed (DOT) com> wrote

"gddd" <gdddn (AT) flasmail (DOT) com> wrote

I hardly think there's a better safety team in the world than th eone
that saved Zanardi, but that's pure speculation. And yes, they do
race on ovals- and don't have somone carted off with multiple
fractures every time. Granted, there HAVE been deaths in CART, but the
last few have been due to complete freak incidents. In the crapwagons,
a driver is carted off on a backboard seemingly every time they race.
Take a tally over the past few years, and you'll see how the IRLers
are injured far more often than in other series. I bet they're close
to a doxen already this year- and those are only the ones that caused
the driver to miss a start or more. Want me to dig up the numbers and
compare? I'm sure they keep records someplace...

Fact remains, racing those type cars on ovals is idiotic. I'd be all
for CART dropping the ovals, too, so it's not simple bias....it's a
pure crapshoot as to when we'll have a LeMans type incident here, and
that's the end of any more open wheelers at all.

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:27:50 GMT, "gddd" <gdddn (AT) flasmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Moore and... ?

Jason

Jason Moyer wrote:
Gonzalo Rodriguez (name ?) driving for Penske at Laguna Seca in '99.

(Paging Dave Henrie...we have an open wheel holy war thread, we need
your services...) ;-)

-jde

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:27:38 -0400, "J.D. Ellis"
<jd.ellis (AT) NOSPAMfuse (DOT) net> wrote:

Pow, that's right, thanks. I knew Krosnoff was before the split but I
kinda thought there was someone who I forgot...

Jason