I think Tony wasn't pushing down on the loud pedal all the way so nobody would notice the aero advantage.![]()
patrick yes the canopy adds 25 pounds but tony's car was always light and they had to add weight. now they take that weight off and the car is still the required minimum and not over weight.
why do you want it mandatory? I would think a lot of the independent guys might not want to spend the money like me and others might not want the weight.
Amen! I think the big attraction to the canopy is that at least now we don't have 16 car fields of exact replicas racing. /QUOTE]
Enjoy that while you can because you know that if it proves itself, by the 2013 Winter Nats 90% of the cars will have it.![]()
There will be at least 3 teams at Indy with it, DSR has a big advantage in the data department with the testing runs and Brainard.
It's a non issue to me. The Glass Slipper had a canopy in the 50's! Half the TF cars of the mid 80's ran them as well.
All this talk about "should have waited to change rules till '13" or whatever, blah blah blah. This is nothing new.
I would think it all depends on if the other 2 DSR TF teams were just like Tony's and were light to begin with.
It's nothing new, but to alot of people that don't know or don't remember it's 100% new. Why it took until 2003, have it die, and then 2012 to see the canopy again I do not know. It should of been implemented back when Garlits first ran it.