Watch what you say
Speaking of field fillers, just be careful if you follow my link in that post to Carl Long's site.
Say, for instance, you were to wander into the forums and wonder, oh, I dunno, when Long might actually finish a race or even manage to get through a fourth of a race.
It's a legitimate question, 'cause I'm wondering the same thing. But don't ask it unless you want to get smacked around by the site admin.
In all seriousness, the lead post explains why Long made it only 26 laps at Dover before his engine gave out:
It turns out the main cause was the lower portion of the grill on the car was sealed off, and no air was going in there. Even if they opened the grill, there still was not a tube going to the radiator to cool it off. That along with the high air temperatures today did them in. This car is meant for bigger tracks like Lowes, where the lower grill is sealed off. Big tracks are all it has run at so far, so they did not think that this would happen. They could have done duct work on the car yesterday, but that takes a long time according to Carl, and he was happy with the way the car was handling as is, so he didn't want to mess with anything.
You think someone would have noticed this when they rolled the car off the truck.
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Jeez, talk about some naive people.
Posted on June 9, 2005 4:50 PM