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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Russell's car too light
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:13:57 -0700
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On 2024-07-29 03:36, 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 .
> 
> geoff

I don't recall hearing it much, but I certainly do SEE it on cars that 
come to the victory area.