Vid- Tight Cuda on the track.

[budnate]

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/52dac3dc-6d5f-43a3-a1a2-985c004a64ea.htm

any of you cats know this car???, car is making some suds! and getting around the track well, the little 2002 is giving him a pain though. lol http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[Eddie M.]

oh man that was cool....was waiting to see if he was gonna take the little car out http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

[Xplantdad]

Yea...stinkin' little BMW. Shoulda tapped it lightly http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

[SS427]

Whats so sad is that little Beamer kept up with him! I think a little of the "pit maneuver" was in order for that guy! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
Rick

[Xplantdad]

Rick, I agree... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[x Baldwin Motion]

considering the cuda has almost 1000 lbs on the 2002 it handled it remarkably well. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[njsteve]

By the stripes on the hood it looks like one of the original Dan Gurney All American Racers AAR Cudas. http://www.trans-amseries.com/Drivers/AndyBoone.htm

After racing my Viper in SCCA for a few years I learned to repsect what lack of weight can do in a race. A 1000 lb car with 100 hp is the equal if not better than a 4000 pound car with 400 horses. The record holder in the class used to run was a Lotus Elan, probably weighed 1800 pounds total compared to my 4000 pound Viper.

That said, the guy in the BMW was an a-hole in terms of track etiquette. You don't pull into someone as they are passing you. This looked to be some type of vintage event and if I was the Cuda driver I would have have pulled into the pits after the run, walked into the booth with that tape and showed them all. And if that didnt sway their opinion and forced them to pull the guy's event registration, there is always the pit manueaver on the next run. (but turn the camera off first)

[Dave Rifkin]

What's the "pit manueaver"?

[SS427]

"The PIT maneuver is a method, popular with police departments, by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The acronym "PIT" stands for either Precision Immobilization Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique, or Parallel Immobilization Technique, depending on which police department is using it. Other names for the same maneuver are Tactical Vehicle Intervention (TVI), "tactical ramming," and "legal intervention."

Simply put, if the guy in the Cuda even so much as (lightly) touched the rear corner of the Beamer and nudged him, the Beamer would have been out of it and no one would have been the wiser. I think it would have been something VERY well deserved! The Beamer driver was not much of a sport. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
Rick

[Dave Rifkin]

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"The PIT maneuver is a method, popular with police departments, by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The acronym "PIT" stands for either Precision Immobilization Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique, or Parallel Immobilization Technique, depending on which police department is using it. Other names for the same maneuver are Tactical Vehicle Intervention (TVI), "tactical ramming," and "legal intervention."

Simply put, if the guy in the Cuda even so much as (lightly) touched the rear corner of the Beamer and nudged him, the Beamer would have been out of it and no one would have been the wiser. I think it would have been something VERY well deserved! The Beamer driver was not much of a sport. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
Rick

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Ah, that's the PIT maneuver. Yes, that BMW driver deserved that for sure and should have considered himself fortunate to get off that lightly; he was being a real.......(insert expletive of choice).

[Chevy454]

Boy howdy...someone needs to give that guy in the bimmer the "Cale Yarborough" treatment when he gets back to the pits!

[Eddie M.]

it sure look like that cuda gained on the bmw pretty easy considering his weight to horsepower ratio if the bmw got out of his way he'd a been gone

[x Baldwin Motion]

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Boy howdy...someone needs to give that guy in the bimmer the "Cale Yarborough" treatment when he gets back to the pits!

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You dont to explain that one to me!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif
Even after Cale stopped driving and owned a Winston Cup car he was rumored (there we go again)to knock his own people around in the pits and the shop. When he was driving, well.. we can go to the video for that. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Chris http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

[427TJ]

Maybe the guy in the Cuda is sleeping with the BMW driver's wife and that's why the Beemer guy is doing what he's doing. Maybe the Cuda guy ran the Beemer guy off the track at a previous race and now he's doing what he can to annoy the Cuda driver.

Let's not forget Dale Earnhardt, one of the great bump-and-win drivers. Jeremy Mayfield got into Earnhardt's rear on the last turn of a race on a short oval (Bristol?) and loosened Dale Sr. just enough to allow Mayfield to get past for the win. Earnhardt came roaring up alongside and flipped-off Mayfield on live TV. Afterward, Mayfield was asked about the tap and his reply was, "I don't know why Dale was so mad, he made his whole career doing that to other drivers."

[njsteve]

No messing around is allowed in vintage car racing. Period. No contact, no 10/10ths racing, and if you have an off track excursion you are black flagged from the track. If you hit another car, you are banned from further races. The rules are extremely strict based on the fact that the majority of these cars are irreplaceable one of a kind race cars with serious history, worth in the millions of dollars. When you have some guy in a $2000 beemer trying to run a multi-million dollar Gurney AAR Cuda off the track it makes you really mad.

[Late BrakeU2]

Sorry fellers,gotta call that one for what it was.Cuda guy is what's referred to in the instructing world as OSB(other sports bekon)He should work more on his heel and toe and less on his french gestural scolding.I can see him not wanting to scuff his investemnt,but sometimes it's the indian not the arrow.

Road racing is all about smooth momentum,and it goes like this*

*Warning,tweeter bender http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_AEVhpRrgU

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

Maybe a nice friendly little smack upside the Beamer drivers head back in the pit would be best instead of scratching up the cars! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif That sure is one bad azz mopar!But that little beamer was always right there with him!If the old boy driving that cuda made one little mistake he was going to have to catch the beamer all over again.

[SS427]

I love the throw on that guys shifter but hate the whine. However, nothing like that Cuda's roar!
Rick