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cameronm writes "A recent article in Slate discusses the value of NASCAR racing as a tool to study Game Theory. You can view the original study at FirstMonday."
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would be why there don't seem to be many women or
ethnic drivers in NASCAR. That's just my opinion.
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---p.s If you don't get it then you didn't read the article
WTF are you talking about? Nobody, I mean NOBODY in their right minds reads the articles on slashdot.
Game theorists should get to work on why we're wasting precious fossil fuels and emitting nasty gasses on this "sport" that could be just as well done on a computer. Yeah mark me "Troll" or whatever, I just flinch every time I see press lip service to this destructive "sport".
>A riced up Honda civic could probably go faster
>then these anachronisms.
Um, you're just trolling right?
Your Honda can probably wax a restrictor plate NASCAR machine on a quarter mile, but wouldn't even qualify for an endurance race. Hell, there are some VW's that can do the 9's on a quarter mile (and have to be rebuilt for each race day!)
There's a world of difference between a quarter mile drag race where your rice boys run, and a sustained stock car run.
OTOH, I'm a lot more impressed with Grand Prix than Daytona...
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
NASCAR is for rednecks and geeks who want to be rednecks.
Hmmh... mind pulling your Boxter S up beside a '03 Corvette with a pushrod motor, so that Corvette can take the paint right off your Boxter's fenders? Pushrod engines are not "inherently" limited by choice of pushrods. GM has proven that pushrod technology, while being cheaper to manufacture and simpler to work on, is still not inferior to Over Head Valve designs.
:) Happy valve adjustments on those multivalve engines! I prefer a quiet, efficient, low RPM rumble, snarl or growl, not high RPM screaming banshee 4 bangers.
Also, if memory serves, there was a Mercedes factory driver in Indy who dominated a entire field of the highest-tech motors of all time, with a pushrod turbo Mercedes V6.
Life is "Fast & the Furious" only for those who can't get beyond 2Liters of displacement. Frankly, cars that have to tack 9 grand before shiftpoints are reached, just to hit 60mph in ~6.5s, are not impressive. What fun is to have to tear the car up to get a little zip? You have to drive 4 banger "performance" cars like you hate them.
GM pushrod/supercharged 3.8L and Gen IV 350cid V8s are getting *better* gas mileage than many import performance motors, and have very good low RPM torque and manageability. Not to mention there is about only 1 Japanese 4 cylinder import that can take a Gen IV V8 powered "big car" like a Camaro, and that's the Honda S2000, another car you have to drive like you hate, to get the performance out of it. But a Honda S2000 will not take a LS6 powered Corvette
Pushrod != lowtech, deal with it...
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