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From: ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Russell's car too light
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:28:27 +1200
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On 29/07/2024 10:36 pm, Geoff wrote:
> On 29/07/2024 8:16 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:
>> On 29/07/2024 8:04 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:
>>> On 29/07/2024 5:22 pm, Woozy Song wrote:
>>>> In another forum, a zillion posters said because he did 1-stop that he wore a few kg extra 
>>>> rubber off the tyres. But then would not the tyres be unsafe in the final laps?
>>>
>>> The other forum is filled with clowns. It's nothing to do with the tyres, Merc have admitted it 
>>> was their error. (Often a light car is ballasted up to weight and I dare say that this was done 
>>> incorrectly.) 
>>
>> Ehhh... I've just done some quick reading and Mark Hughes thinks it WAS the tyres (and lack of a 
>> cooldown lap to pickup marbles?). <shrug> Buggered if I know, I could have been wrong above. I 
>> remember the days when engineers always told the driver to be sure to get plenty of tyre pickup 
>> on the cooldown lap but haven't heard anything like that for ... decades?
> 
> I hear it all the time .

Ok. I don't.
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification 
in the DSM"
David Melville.