Anthony Fontanelle asked:


BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica has amazingly been given the all-clear to race in this weekend’s US Grand Prix in Indianapolis - just two days after his horrific crash in Montreal. The Polish BMW driver discharged himself from hospital on Monday in remarkably good shape and was able to drive himself away.

“As you see I’m quite in good shape and I’m hoping (to be) going to Indianapolis if the doctors will say OK for my driving,” Kubica told reporters outside Montreal’s Sacre-Coeur Hospital. “I feel very good. I was very lucky - big accident, but fortunately, nothing hurt,” he added after walking gingerly down the steps of the hospital. “Mario Theissen and other team members came to visit me and also thanks to Jarno Trulli who came as well.”

“The doctors here have given him the all-clear to race,” said the spokesperson of the Formula One team. Nonetheless, the mandatory ‘black box’ aboard his destroyed single-seat car mirrored a 28G impact at about 90 degrees. In addition, Kubica’s mild concussion means that Sebastian Vettel or Timo Glock could still be called up to take his place.

And “the peak value [of the impact] would be clearly higher than 28G, given the damage to the chassis,” a BMW engineer added. The reliability of BMW oxygen sensor, brakes, and other performance parts has significantly contributed to the unscathed Kubica. Radio-Canada estimated the actual moment of impact at over 40G. “In my day, if you had a crash like that, you would be dead, no doubt about it,” said Niki Lauda. Lauda nearly died in a comparable head-on crash back in 1976.

“I think he wouldn’t have survived something like this ten years ago,” the website www.autosport.com quoted team boss Mario Theissen as saying. The accident highlighted the efficacy of safety measures implemented in the previous years, particularly the head and neck safety device (HANS) and reinforced cockpits.

The Pole will undergo on Thursday a mandatory 25-minute examination by the FIA’s doctors, where his reaction time, coordination and mental capacities will be compared with a ‘control’ test that all drivers go through each season.

The 22-year-old BMW Sauber driver said that he had not yet decided if he wanted to watch replays of the crash. “I saw it when I was in the car,” he said. Kubica said that he remembered “nearly everything” about the crash. The accident occurred when Kubica’s car made contact with the rear wheels of Jarno Trulli’s Toyota on the approach to the hairpin on lap 27 on the Gilles Villeneuve circuit. Kubica’s car took off, flying through the air and slamming into a concrete wall before barrel-rolling across the track. As a result, Kubica’s car was horribly smashed.

Theissen is happy for Kubica to race at Indianapolis this weekend, just seven days after the crash in Canada. He will leave it up to the chief medical officer of Formula One’s governing body FIA to make the decision about Kubica’s fitness to drive in the upcoming race.

Theissen admitted that last Sunday’s race, in which BMW Sauber’s other driver Nick Heidfeld came second behind Lewis Hamilton, had provoked mixed emotions following Kubica’s crash. “Seeing the first impact in the replay gave us all a huge shock. I was waiting on the pit wall watching the screens until the rescue work was completed and then went over to the Medical Centre to see Robert. Having established that he had not suffered any serious injuries, I returned to the team to tell them the good news and followed the remainder of the race from the pit wall,” he added.



RUSS

TysMama07 asked:


Is it because there a box of trix that only suckers buy?? Why do they try and race our American Muscle cars? Even with a turbo on that 800 pound go-kart, they still cant keep up with my stock Trans-Am!! I think “wanna-be” when I see guys driving them like race cars. Hey, how much H.P do they get with that 4 foot peice of trunk plastic sticking up in the air??
Yeah, when it comes to comfort ricers were built for the small guys, thats why i had a panic attack sitting in a honda civic… And Handling?!? Pleaze…Thats what mustangs, camaro’s and firebirds were made for!! I gotta long list of wana-be imports on my dominated-then-shit-on list!!(and alot were on a road course) you people watched “2 fast 2 furious 2 many times!! Go back to Japan!

JOHNATHON

Danielle asked:


i don’t know if its a machine or what it does. Its behind the cars on race day, it has the driver sponsors on it.

WINSTON

Jonh Q asked:


We’re trying to get in this Red Bull Soap Box Derby race, we are a wild card, we need votes to get in the race! Please vote for the “Tomb Raiders” here:
http://www.redbullsoapboxusa.com/Providence-2007/wildcard.aspx
click on the “Tomb Raiders” sketch, enter encription code at the bottem left, then click vote, you’re done!
To prove you voted (10 points to first in) please tell me what you see after you vote (a different screen comes up) It’s not spam, don’t worry!
Thanks!
(YOU DON’T HAVE TO ANSWER THIS, PLEASE NO RUDE COMMENTS, I’M NOT VIOLATING ANY YAHOO GUIDE-LINES)

TYSON

DANIELLA V asked:


He races cars on a dirt race track. He loves the giants baseball team. I put a bottle of my perfume in the box already with wrist bands from the races and the fair. I’m decorating the outside of the box with pictures. Thats all i have so far. Help

JOHN

Jeff C asked:


I could swear that in the past I have seen a car penalized for leaving with a crew member on the track side of the car when they leave. The reason I am wondering is because Jeff Gordon left his pit box with a crew member on the wrong side of the car at the race he won at Darlington. Am I just confused or is there really a rule?

VINCENT

Mitch Endick asked:


Great Photoramics

Like many of their panoramic cousins, photoramics are a compilation of images that are used to express a certain theme. Traditional panoramas are generally reflecting a photographic compilation forming a single image. The images that are used to create a photoramic are often photographic but can include others types media such as art drawings, painted backgrounds and other graphic images.

Photoramics that feature sports themes are becoming very popular. Like collectible sports cards, photoramics are quickly becoming popular among collectors of sports memorabilia. Sports have always been a mainstay of American life and there is a great demand for many different types of collectibles and memorabilia.

There are photoramics that profile the athletic achievements of individuals and teams as well as significant moments in sports history. Sports heroes old and new are sometimes portrayed in ways that can profile and highlight an entire career. Team profiles and histories can be found gracing some of the best selling photoramics.

Photoramics of individual athletes often feature photographic images of significant moments of an athletes career. Auto racing has gained a tremendous number of new followers over the last decade. Race fans can find photoramics of their favorite drivers, race teams and cars. Baseball, boxing, football, hockey and more can be found in uniquely designed photoramics.

Imagine a photoramic that features a retrospective of the career of Muhammad Ali. Ali is still one of the most recognizable sports celebrities in the world and all manner of memorabilia pays homage to his incredible career. Entire books and retrospective films have been made showing his life and boxing career.

In a single framed photoramic, fans can stand witness to Ali the Olympic boxer for Team USA, through his world championship years to his Olympic torch presentation in the 1996 Olympics. No other medium can provide such powerful imagery and be small enough to hang in your wall.

Sports teams that have reached the heights of a championship are a favorite subject of photoramic retrospectives. Fans can immediately get a sense of the emotion that comes with a great accomplishment, from the excitement of a Super Bowl game to the World Series of baseball. Photoramics can take sports fans back to a time in history when **** Ruth was the Sultan of Swat and the Steel Curtin Defense of Pittsburg ruled the National Football League.

Baseball fans can revel in the indomitable spirit of heroes like Lou Gehrig, the affable charm New York Yankees manager Yogi Berra, and the swagger of a young Broadway Joe Namath. Through the photoramic, basketball fans can adorn the walls of their home with the power of Michael Jordan, the grace of Magic Johnson and the youthful promise of LeBron James.

Race drivers like the late Dale Earnhardt are immortalized in photoramics, giving race fans the chance to admire and pay homage to this champion of stock car racing for years to come. From living legends like Richard Petty and Al Unser to latter day stars like Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton can be found as the subjects of a variety of photoramic images.

Like panoramas, photoramics can be found on many quality websites and both can be purchased framed or unframed. Framed photoramics can make the perfect gift for the sports fan in your life and can be appropriate for most any occasion.

Shopping for framed panoramas and photoramics is easier than ever. Online shopping offers consumers a convenient way to find images of your favorite sport or athlete. Many sites offer different framing and matte options that can add to the look of your photoramic.



TRENT

tirapabi_2007 asked:


I have to build a soap box car to race around the campus for my physics class. The conditions are that I have to power it, and it has to have a shell. My class is the first class to do the project so there isn’t much examples or ideas provided. Though it was suggested that we could use petels to power it? So any ideas, and how would I be able to steer it as there will be corners to go around? Plans are welcome too, though I figured that this project will probally be a test as you go type of thing.
Thanks for any help!

LOWELL

Gavin Drake asked:


Weight is one of the most important issues to consider when building a fast car for road or track. Putting a car on a serious diet is pretty much free horsepower, as any attempt to lighten a car improves the power to weight ratio, this seriously improves acceleration.

The gains on a lightening a car are huge and not just limited to gains in acceleration either. Once you have lightened a fast car you will find the car performs better in the corners and under braking, parts such as brakes and tires will last longer on the car also.

The potential gains are huge but it must be done correctly, you would not want to lighten a rear wheel drive car too much on the rear or you may find traction a problem particularly with a high power output.

The truth is your fast car could be made a great deal faster cheaply and easily just by shaving a few pounds off the body.

How do we remove weight from the fast car?

This bit is as easy as you want it to be, but as with most forms of car modification it depends on how far you want to go. I know a guy who races a BMW and he decided to go all out on weight saving, he even scraped every bit of under-seal from the floors of the car, extreme perhaps but he managed to remove nearly 2 stone of under-seal, not a bad effort.

The obvious place to start saving weight on your fast car is by removing the interior, and anything else that you do not need, the front seats can be replaced with light weight racing items, the unused wiring removed, carpets and sound deadening, pretty much all of the unnecessary parts, my car has just a driver seat and a cage with much of the unnecessary wiring removed. This makes for a car with very impressive performance.

Many other components can be replaced with lighter parts, gear box casings, axle covers etc. It is worth noting that a stainless steel exhaust is lighter than the same in mild steel, so this constitutes a worthwhile investment.

It is also important to reduce the unsprung weight on the car also, by this I mean wheels, brakes and anything else before the suspension mounts, this provides a very good increase in the handling of the car.



EARNEST

teashy asked:


What would you build your Soap Box Car out of? And how would you decorate it?

(For those who do not know: A Soap Box car is a “gravity” fueled contraption, made of lightweight materials, used to race downhill with. First to the finish line wins. )

Boots won the last race. Check the results here.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ase0KFVG7NFcRXmRsUCyU_Dty6IX?qid=20070416151622AACfNE7
Ok. Here we are at the 2nd P&S Soap Box Race. It’s a good turn out. Tons of folks down here to watch the excitement.
Here we go folks! At the start we have Tut Uncommon, Mayhem I, Boots (Our defending champion, welcome back Boots), Mitch, and northerncountry_rose! Good luck to all of you. Ok, on your MARK, GET SET, GO GO GO!!
Ok we’re off to a nice start! Pulling ahead already over the 1st hill is Tut Uncommon. Some of that hot air that Mitch is using must be pushing him ahead! But wait, here comes Mayhem I. That **** must be really working with that downhill slope! OH WAIT. OH NO. Going over the 2nd hill Mitch and Tut Uncommon crash into each other. Paper plates and violation notices flying all over the place! Watch out folks here comes that 38th Edition Oxford Dictionary! Watch your heads. Mayhem I, just barely missed those metaphors! Nothing seems to beat a good ole’ classic. Ahhh, but here comes our defending champion Boots, with northerncountry_rose right on his tail.
Going over the 3rd hill Boots pulls ahead of Mayhem I. Seems she has been taken in by those adorable eyes. Boots claims another victim of admiration. Taking up the rear is northerncountry_rose. That chicken wire seems to be holding up well. Mayhem I seems to be loosing air in her bottles! Not good! She’s out. Aww, don’t worry Mayhem I. Coke would be proud!! Now northerncountry_rose is neck to neck with Boots going over the 4th hill. Boots tries to pour on the charm. It’s not working this time! Oh no, northerncountry_rose seems to be unaffected. Must be all that reflective duct tape. Going over the last hill. It’s close folks.Those pom poms and shooting flames are really whipping now! They’ve crossed the finish!! Who won? The judges are going to give it an instant replay to see. (5 minutes pass, the judges seem to finally agree). And our winner is:
northerncountry_rose!!WE HAVE A NEW CHAMPION!! Red Green would be so proud!!
*Aww, so sorry Boots, it was close.

CLAIR