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PKRWUD · 02-14-2002, 09:57 PM

dani-
Sorry, I've been sick with the flu all week. I have never driven a Sprint car. My balls aren't big enough. The driver I am working for this year and last hasn't been involved in a serious crash yet. He's been hit a few times, but other than some bent radius rods or a tweaked nerf bar, he's come away unscathed. The driver I worked for two years ago is another story. He went through 3 hoods by June (for those who don't know, the only way to damage a hood in a Sprint car wreck, is to land on it, hard). That guy wrecked every week. Even by himself. He was truly an accident looking for a place to happen. That's why I left his team. Too much work for no reason. This last season, he ended the season early with a spectacular crash in October. He was on the back straightaway, not paying attention, and came up on a car that was slowing for a spin in turn 3. He proceeded to run right up over the other cars back tire, and went into the wall at an angle. When he contacted the wall, the car started spinning, in the air, in what could best be described as a "helicopter" spin. He passed out, but had the throttle wide open. As he started to come back down to the ground, the right rear tire, still spinning at 7500 rpm, grabbed the wall and sent him flying out the turn 3 exit ramp, sideways. He looked as though he was driving perfectly normally, except that he was on the wall instead of the track. You could see the car as if you were above it. The car then cartwheeled down the exit, and landed upside down, with the engine sill floored, and the wheels still engaged. It took 23 seconds before a track worker was able to get close enough to hit the kill switch, and shut the engine down. He was taken to the hospital, where he did nothing but complain about how the other car "cut him off". The track video tape would later show that it was entirely his fault, but he still denies it. He just turned 52, and has been encouraged by many to seriously consider retiring, but alas, he's signed up again for this season.

srv1-
I admit, my Mac would freeze about once every two weeks when running OS 9.1. The PC's I used would freeze up more often than that, but it would depend on what I was doing. Since I installed OS X, around the first week in October, my Mac has only frozen once, and that was due to a mistake I made in Classic (Incase you weren't aware, Apple's new OS X actually runs two different operating systems simultaneously, so that any software that is not OS X {UNIX platform} compatible still has OS 9.2 {old Mac platform} to run on. 99% of the time, the two operating systems work together flawlessly, but I had a preference panel configured wrong in the Classic mode so that it was trying to override the OS X drivers when loading the driver for my second monitor. That was a stupid mistake on my part, and caused it to freeze once). Since then, I haven't had any trouble at all.

Take care,
-Chris

02-14-2002, 09:57 PM	#5
PKRWUD Junior Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Ventura, California Posts: 8,981	dani- Sorry, I've been sick with the flu all week. I have never driven a Sprint car. My balls aren't big enough. The driver I am working for this year and last hasn't been involved in a serious crash yet. He's been hit a few times, but other than some bent radius rods or a tweaked nerf bar, he's come away unscathed. The driver I worked for two years ago is another story. He went through 3 hoods by June (for those who don't know, the only way to damage a hood in a Sprint car wreck, is to land on it, hard). That guy wrecked every week. Even by himself. He was truly an accident looking for a place to happen. That's why I left his team. Too much work for no reason. This last season, he ended the season early with a spectacular crash in October. He was on the back straightaway, not paying attention, and came up on a car that was slowing for a spin in turn 3. He proceeded to run right up over the other cars back tire, and went into the wall at an angle. When he contacted the wall, the car started spinning, in the air, in what could best be described as a "helicopter" spin. He passed out, but had the throttle wide open. As he started to come back down to the ground, the right rear tire, still spinning at 7500 rpm, grabbed the wall and sent him flying out the turn 3 exit ramp, sideways. He looked as though he was driving perfectly normally, except that he was on the wall instead of the track. You could see the car as if you were above it. The car then cartwheeled down the exit, and landed upside down, with the engine sill floored, and the wheels still engaged. It took 23 seconds before a track worker was able to get close enough to hit the kill switch, and shut the engine down. He was taken to the hospital, where he did nothing but complain about how the other car "cut him off". The track video tape would later show that it was entirely his fault, but he still denies it. He just turned 52, and has been encouraged by many to seriously consider retiring, but alas, he's signed up again for this season. srv1- I admit, my Mac would freeze about once every two weeks when running OS 9.1. The PC's I used would freeze up more often than that, but it would depend on what I was doing. Since I installed OS X, around the first week in October, my Mac has only frozen once, and that was due to a mistake I made in Classic (Incase you weren't aware, Apple's new OS X actually runs two different operating systems simultaneously, so that any software that is not OS X {UNIX platform} compatible still has OS 9.2 {old Mac platform} to run on. 99% of the time, the two operating systems work together flawlessly, but I had a preference panel configured wrong in the Classic mode so that it was trying to override the OS X drivers when loading the driver for my second monitor. That was a stupid mistake on my part, and caused it to freeze once). Since then, I haven't had any trouble at all. Take care, -Chris __________________ Webmaster: Rice Haters Club Jim Porter Racing Peckerwoods Pit Stop Support Your Local RED & WHITE!