65 Goatboy
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David Grubnic calls them air deflectors.
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They're not really canards to begin with but rather kick-out panels that in my opinion serve as little billboards for sponsor names more than any real advantage they might provide. And there's nicknames for just about every part on a race car anyway. Tires are referred to as 'hoops'; frame rails as 'pipe', nitro as 'juice' or 'sauce', blowers as 'huffers', injector hats as 'bird catchers', 'buzzard catchers' or 'big uglies', pistons as 'slugs' and so on. Besides, those panels do resemble a mud flap, do they not? Hence the nick.
z28
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being from the trucking world I'd call them 1/4 fenders.They're not really canards to begin with but rather kick-out panels that in my opinion serve as little billboards for sponsor names more than any real advantage they might provide. And there's nicknames for just about every part on a race car anyway. Tires are referred to as 'hoops'; frame rails as 'pipe', nitro as 'juice' or 'sauce', blowers as 'huffers', injector hats as 'bird catchers', 'buzzard catchers' or 'big uglies', pistons as 'slugs' and so on. Besides, those panels do resemble a mud flap, do they not? Hence the nick.
Yes, but not racing each other, although that would be pretty cool
65 Goatboy
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Tasca's issue was side by side.
I remember when canard "wings" came out on the old front motor cars, around 1970??? Anyhoo, after Garlits came out with his back motor car, we started seeing the back motor cars from 1972, more or less & all had rear wings, front wings and canard wings. Sometimes it looked kinda strange, but I think that is where all the wings of today came from. Back motor cars anyway. Garlits had a wing over the front motor car1963 Winternats.
Oh, there was a time that funny cars had canard wings, early '70's I think. Didn't last too long.
Oh, there was a time that funny cars had canard wings, early '70's I think. Didn't last too long.
FS2 is currently replaying the Arizona Nationals.
They just ran an ad for The Winternationals, calling it the “fastest Motorsport in the world.”
Edit: They just ran another ad, calling drag racing “the fastest, most extreme Motorsport.”
Maybe Tasca calling them out actually got through to the PTB at Fox Sports.
They just ran an ad for The Winternationals, calling it the “fastest Motorsport in the world.”
Edit: They just ran another ad, calling drag racing “the fastest, most extreme Motorsport.”
Maybe Tasca calling them out actually got through to the PTB at Fox Sports.
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