after yet another dominating performance by the bowtie brigade...how much
longer will it take for Na$car to step in like they did in the truck series
and mandate a change unless the few laps the blue deuce led yesterday counts
as parity.

if it was Toyota teams dominating these races,would it then be a time for a
change?

mike.........

"JerseyMike" <clamdigger724 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote



Kenseth is ruining it for all of the other Fords.

"JerseyMike" <clamdigger724 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

All the Chevy fans will tell you its because most of the top teams are Chevy
teams. That's a fat load of crap. Mark Martin is having a great season
running for a *second tier* Chevy team. Probably a better start than he ever
had at Roush. Imagine how big of a point lead Matt Kenseth would have now if
he were driving a Chevy.

And as if Chevy weren't dominating enough, Nascar lets them have a new
engine design on top of it all. Sheesh.

"armpit" <armarmpitpit (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Ok... so what is Chevy's advantage? HP? Nope. Aero? Nope.

--

-Mike-
mmarlowREMOVE (AT) alltel (DOT) net

"Mike Marlow" <mmarlow (AT) alltel (DOT) net> wrote

How do you know? Peak HP ain't everything. It's all about the area under the
curve, and NASCAR doesn't release that data when they dyno the engines.

Again, how do you know? They don't use all the same templates. The CoT will
finally remove that bonus, but until they go to a common engine, Chevy will
always have a gifted advantage. They've had it for years & years.

"armpit" <armarmpitpit (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

so are you a supporter of the COT for the common template?

i support the safety issues they are trying to engage, but not the
templates.

the only advantage that Chevy has is that they actually try and manufacter a
car that can be competitive in CUP.

mike.......

On Apr 16, 3:32 pm, "JerseyMike" <clamdigger... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

So you can go down to your local Chevy dealership and buy an exact
copy of a Nextel Cup car?

Do the Chevy race teams buy their race cars directly from Chevrolet?

Wow, that's news. For years we have been told that the teams built
these cars by hand, and that the engines were about the only thing the
manufacturer had actually manufactured. How did you get the memo that
everyone else didn't?

Face it, NASCRAP has tilted the field in favor of Chevy, and have done
so for decades. Hell, they went so far as to make the Dodge teams re-
engineer their engines to a Chevy type design.

"armpit" <armarmpitpit (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

YES!
And if 1 of the Top3 Best year after year MKenseth joined Chevy
like MMartin, the rest of the makes wouldn't ever win.
CRU

made the dodges change the bore spacing on their block from the STOCK (360
engine) from the factory bore spacing to the GM bore spacing.... and
now....Now..the new Chevies engine has the old bore spacing the dodge
had.....the one they had to change from.....


"Crusader" <cru357 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

On Apr 16, 5:51 pm, "tony" <aarc... (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote:

More than that, they made the Dodge engine go from a big bore, short
stroke to the Chevy Small bore, long stroke, IN THE MIDDLE OF A
SEASON.