Re: Daytona 500 redux

[trishab@interwebb.com (Trisha Blethen)]

Daniel Hussey wrote:
> 
>      Bob,
> 
>        You may not like NASCAR, but to say it sucks is kinda childish!  Anyways
> , I should have been more specific in my post.  Yes, they did just tape up the
> car, but with racer's tape.  This is just like duct tape but much stronger and
> meant for such uses.  I don't know if any of you saw the 24-Hours of Daytona ra
> ce last week on ESPN, but the windshield on a BMW M3 race car got shattered and
> they had to pull in to replace it.  They did not have time to secure a new one
> in place since the race was almost over, so they just taped it in!  Many Audis
> finnished thanks to duct tape back in the old rally days!  Lotsa duct tape!!!!
> Like my dad taught me "If a little duct tape won't fix it, a whole lot of it wi
> ll fix the hell out of it!"
> 
>        Also, no they did not just let the car go back out there.  There were NA
> SCAR techs there to look over the car and make sure it was safe to go on the tr
> ack again.  It was a hell of a crash, but these cars are VERY durable and are d
> esighned to take some serious hits before they are through.

And as reported on RPM 2night......there was nothing whatsoever wrong
with the frame....