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meshmesh

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Hi Guys,

I was at the Kickboxing last night, speaking to a guy on our table who is involved in setting up some new technology thing-a-ma-bobby that will "as he believes" end drag racing events like calder, heatchcote etc.. in Victoria.

Basically as I understand it, the former owner of an engineering company in Airport West, has plans to build a venue where cars would be put on a dyno like simulators, with a big screen infront of you to simulate dragging down a qtr mile track. The simulator will also give, dyno readings etc etc.. It will be sort of like a "DAYTONA" set up with cars side by side.

The environment will include bars, cafe & restaurants with spectuators watching whilst your on these simulators. Apparantley the police & state government are involved in the project. However no offical word on where the venue will be located.

Has anyone else heard of this?

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KamikazeR33 Grand Master

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wheres the fun?

that would be plain boring

i mean u got so many variables in drag racing

temp, tyres, driver reaction/concentration, head/tail wind etc etc

i would rather put a push bike on a dyno that put my car on that peice of crap (if its even real?)

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wheres the fun?  

that would be plain boring

i mean u got so many variables in drag racing

temp, tyres, driver reaction/concentration, head/tail wind etc etc

i would rather put a push bike on a dyno that put my car on that peice of crap (if its even real?)

I raised the question on variables, which he said the simulator takes these into account & adjusts itself accordindly. BUt you raise a good point on Temps... the wind factor might be controlled by the simulator.

I asked what the cost would be per run, and that hasn't been confirmed. Considering the time involved to setup a car on a dyno how cost effective would this be compared to real drag racing, he said the simulators has pre-programmed specs so you'd type the car model in, and the simulator adjust itself, you drive up onto the ramp, then the simulator automatically clamps the car in...

How comparable the times would be to say real drag racing is debateable, but i'm not sure that's its main purpose, and might be just a fun thing more than anything. A point he raised was the police argument on how this could help reduced the impact on illegal street racing??

all this sounded a little beyond belief, but who knows, we might have to wait & see??

Jamezilla Grand Master

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Bah - bunch of doubters.

This is just like the way that stupid horse-riding game at Barcode was designed to stop the illegal midnight horse races in Sunshine. When was the last time you saw one of those on Today Tonight?

Power to them I say. From all accounts it sounds like it will be a real drag.

Har har.

Take my wife, please. I'm here all week folks.

R31Nismoid Grand Master

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This is just like the way that stupid horse-riding game at Barcode was designed to stop the illegal midnight horse races in Sunshine. When was the last time you saw one of those on Today Tonight?

Yeah, those illegal horsie drags were really getting serious a few years back you know! :)

Do i get to rip a BIG FAT burnout on this expensive machine?

Does it have a burnout competition mode?

Just like shoout-out mode on a dyno?

LOL, it'll never happen

GTRgeoff Grand Master

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This sounds crap, and I'm no drag fan.

What I would like to see is something similar to sports fields, just in industrial centres where noise won't matter, for cars.

Imagine, if you will, a huge expanse of tarmac. Nicely barricaded for spectator safety, within reason, and big enough for 60 foot practice with a slow down and mild drifting or driver training.

The [local] govt provides sports fields for the conduct of dangerous activities such as footy (ever played rugby union and been at the bottom of the ruck?) but nowhere to do those socially unaccptable things such as learn vehicle control at or beyond the limit of adhesion, which would stop a lot of people driving too fast in the wet for example.

It would remove most of the unacceptables from the streets and as long as it is maintained to a reasonable standard be for the use of the general community on the grounds of no liability to the provider of the facility. Needs no watering either.

I know when they shut down the 1/8th mile drag in ACT the kids went to the streets of Braddon which they were shutting down hard and threatened consfications. I was there having dinner one saturday night and the cops arrived just before we left and closed off the streets. We got pulled over and Gestapo interrogated. I showed my restaurant bill and then threatened legal action and complaints to the Ombudsmans office (who's exec assistant was in the back seat) and they let me go, they just handed fines to everyone in a 'hot' car as they left. Suspicion was I HAD to be involved because I was in a lowered Soarer with 17" wheels.

I like the idea of getting it off the streets, but a high tech solution is not the answer. Anyone else got thoughts?

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