How Many days to the Daytona 500?

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Springfield.

Maude Flanders fell off the back of the grandstand. Died.
 
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Chaparral 2J “Sucker Car” (Can-Am)

The 2J was the last evolution of Chaparral’s successful 2 race cars. It was fitted with a snowmobile engine that spun a pair of fans designed to suck air out from under the car, effectively creating downforce without adding drag. A 7.6-liter engine rated at roughly 680 horsepower helped offset the extra weight added by the complex setup.

Quickly nicknamed Sucker Car, the 2J required a great deal of fine-tuning before it worked as planned. Race authorities received several complaints about it during the 1970 season and banned the car on account that it was fitted with a movable aerodynamic device.
 
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“Under cover of darkness, the Shelby/Wallis Turbines were loaded onto a trailer and whisked away without turning a single lap of competition in the race they were supposed to dominate. Their departure signaled the end of an era in the history of the Indianapolis 500. The once-great turbine-powered cars were outlawed. So was the thinking that created them. Neither would ever return to the speedway.”

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An old buddy of mine Terry Mott in his Seville at Norway. The Mott Family owned a junkyard, they came up with some pretty off the wall cars. NumberSequence be damned.


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aunty dive said:
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Chaparral 2J “Sucker Car” (Can-Am)

The 2J was the last evolution of Chaparral’s successful 2 race cars. It was fitted with a snowmobile engine that spun a pair of fans designed to suck air out from under the car, effectively creating downforce without adding drag. A 7.6-liter engine rated at roughly 680 horsepower helped offset the extra weight added by the complex setup.

Quickly nicknamed Sucker Car, the 2J required a great deal of fine-tuning before it worked as planned. Race authorities received several complaints about it during the 1970 season and banned the car on account that it was fitted with a movable aerodynamic device.
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And nearly 50 years later, they call it brake cooling. The fans are electric, and the scale is smaller than Jim Hall's Sucker Car, but it's really the same thing. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
 
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Yes that Greg Ives, Yooper extraordinaire. I know his grandparents, we grew up in the same area. If you ever get to meet him ask him about 10 Mile Creek.
 
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