This is an excellent writeup on the challenges of Oval racing from the perspective of a non-US racer: If You Think Driving On An Oval Is Easy You're An Idiot Disclaimer: I watch F1 on Sunday mornings and NASCAR Sunday afternoons. I enjoy and appreciate both. To each his own. .
Is it a true oval or is it really and obround track? Ovals would be much harder to run than obround's..... Of course driving the path of a oval on an obround track could give some centrifugal advantage. NASA does it all the time with satellites....
Yeah.... We have several oblong punch dies in our arsenal.... It's not everyday I get to use oblong on a sentence..... OBLONG, OBLONG, OBLONG.... There.... Got my fix for the day.... I've been workin on the railroad.... All the oblong day.... OK, I'm done now....
Nope..... I KEEP BOTH HANDS ON THE BIG ROUND THING, when I'm driving the Dragon..... The slide rule gets tossed in the boot.....
I just saw the "engineer" coming out in ya MM. If you drove in the WRC, your pace notes would not only have the degree and direction of the next turn, but the coefficient of drag, based on barometric pressure, in relation to the phase of the moon. Your co-driver would be one busy person. :lol: Jim