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Originally Posted by wnut
Miatanut do you know of an actively suspended road car?
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My dad's E Class. I will confess I don't know exactly what it does and doesn't do, and I'm sure it's not equal to Colin Chapman's but I'm equally sure it is a lot more similar to Colin Chapman's than the early 1960's Citroen.
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Originally Posted by wnut;3390964 [IMG
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Oldsmobile Jetfire 1962.
Years before any racing use!
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Yup. After planes and trucks had it, and it was a dud. After they got turbocharging worked out at Indy and even more so in CanAm, it became something widely used on road cars.
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Originally Posted by wnut
Active diffs were developed by rally cars, who were working on real saloons and real world tracks. Not cars running around in super smooth open parking lots.
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These days I would say rally racing is what's left of real racing, because they use real, road-going unibodies and drive on real roads, not billiard table smooth closed circuits.
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Gives credence to Casper's argument!
What is F1 actually about?
To me it is about the racing, and development is incidental, but I really wonder sometimes!
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I agree. In all classes racing has been dumbed-down to spec racing entertainment.
To me, an activity which is so wasteful as racing is, is immoral if it's just about entertainment. If it's serving a greater good in advancing knowledge and technical development, then there is a place for it and it can be entertaining even as it's advancing knowledge.