American race cars (formerly - OT: new car advice)

[Lyndon Tiu]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:48:42 -0800 (PST) josh_coffman at yahoo.com wrote:
> > 
> > Talking about American cars, I am just wondering why
> > NASCAR cars use 1960's engine technology?
> > 
> > --
> > Lyndon Tiu
> 
> That's funny... I was just wondering why people spend
> hours watching other people go around in circles for
> hours. 
> 
> .. I could get a dog to do the same thing by putting
> peanut butter on his tail. And yes, he would probably
> crash from time to time.
>

There was this race (the IMSA or something) that banned rotary engines from their races because these were too good and could smoke all the other cars. Funny cause they banned a car because it is too fast!

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Lyndon Tiu