A video - by her brother - of a 14 year old girl's first Sprint Car win.
The story is nice in itself of a brother helping his kid sister (!) but the description of the track conditions shows that dirt , like rally stages, has set of traction conditions that might challenge F1 expertise.
Also it is interesting to note the frantic steering wheel movements , and the extreme front wheel angles with the rel
atively smooth yaw angles of the car. This is lower power sprint car but a full WoO dirt car has 900 bhp on a 84 inch wheelbase with only 650 kg of static weight - car control is everything.
Also it is interesting to note the frantic steering wheel movements , and the extreme front wheel angles with the relatively smooth yaw angles of the car.
I recall a rally film many, many years ago where Hannu Mikkola said that if you were going to use opposite lock on a gravel corner, you should use it early and use full lock, rather than trying to be sparing and gentle with it. And he was as smooth a driver on dirt as you could ask for.
Many years ago, I read where the good Sprint Car, and this probably applies to any dirt oval race that is longer, drivers were the ones who could see/feel how the tracks was changing and change their driving style to compensate for the changing conditions.
There were a lot of sprint car drivers whose competed on road courses but is there any road race driver who tried to race a sprint car?
A video - by her brother - of a 14 year old girl's first Sprint Car win.
The story is nice in itself of a brother helping his kid sister (!) but the description of the track conditions shows that dirt , like rally stages, has set of traction conditions that might challenge F1 expertise.
Also it is interesting to note the frantic steering wheel movements , and the extreme front wheel angles with the rel
atively smooth yaw angles of the car. This is lower power sprint car but a full WoO dirt car has 900 bhp on a 84 inch wheelbase with only 650 kg of static weight - car control is everything.
I have followed these guys on You Tube. Tanner and Carly Holmes. She is at least 16 now,, BUT broke her back in a crash this year. Another stupidly dangerous US excuse for a track.
She was lapping cars and rode a wheel and flipped out of the non existent fence into a creek!! Lucky it had no water.
HOW do these junk tracks ever get insurance?? No fences, no pit gates but a protrusion sticking out to catch someone wide. Cars are worth big bucks and tracks are worth about $20.
I have ran every track in South Oz as well as Western Victoria and never seen such garbage tracks that seem to be accepted in the US.
I know what track promoters have to go through to get a track licence here in Oz,, even the big dollar US ones are quite poor.
Enough of my rant,, young Carly is very good, I feel she will be better than her brother and he is doing ok.
She has been working her butt off working in a brace doing all the normal stuff required on a Sprinter for her brother.
84" wheelbase? My 92" supermod looks small in every respect alongside a modern Sprint. My thoughts [and may be wrong] is around 90"
Even the tallboy frames though are very cramped in the cockpit,, my old thing is nearly a limo!
