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No electrics for me, I love the smell of burning fuel.

 

Electricity is for vacuum cleaners...... This old fossil loves his fossil fuel. :arf:

 

Don't tell that to Hap Sharp and Jim Hall who raced the Chaparral 2J Can-Am cars....

And there was a yuge sucking sound heard throughout the cornfields at Mid-Ohio one weekend.....

 

Those cars really sucked.....

 

It still had an internal combustion motor to go along with the Dyson.

 

From what I remember it had a Kohler snowmobile engine running the sucker & a Chevy V8 for forward thrust. :arf:

 

I didn't know that sucker engine was the problem. I thought the problem was that it threw rocks out the back. Effectively sweeping the track & bombarding the cars following. An amazing piece of tech. Jim Hall & crew really were ahead of their time.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a32350/jim-hall-chaparral-2j-history/

 

f-1 didn't catch up til the 80's with their sucker cars.

 

Here's a good read.....

http://www.grandprixhistory.org/brab46.htm

 

Interesting read.

 

I'm rather surprised you actually drive a mINI. It has a pretty small carbon footprint. :biggrin5:

CD

 

Apparently the Z06 owner insisted on a rolling start. Out of the hole is where electric motors excel. I was kind of surprised at how well the Tesla did, considering it's main advantage was reduced by the rolling start.

CD

 

Plus the fact that the Vette sucks from a dead start. (wheel spin)

 

But David's MINI has a pretty big methprint...