Austin, Correct! Although I only get to see Ardy's rantings when someone else quotes him, I am happy to see others trying to correct him. Jerry Austin Franklin wrote: > Ardeshir, > > > The same thing, by the way, applies to cars with huge fans sucking up > > air from underneath and thereby producing gobs of down-force even on > > the slowest curves. They were banned because cars equipped with such > > fans would easily out-distance the present cars. > > Er, no. They (the Chaparral 2J) were banned for a very good safety reason. > They sucked up debris from the track and spit it out the rear of the car. > It was a severe safety hazard. A small pebble or even marbles (and if you > have a clue about auto racing, you'd know what marbles were...but now that > you've found out how to search for things on the Internet and become an > instant expert, I'm sure you can find it that way as well) could potentially > kill or seriously injure a driver (or someone on the trackside) if "spit" > from one of these cars. > > Austin