Ferrari Mailing List: Re: New Type of Fire Extinguisher

[Bruce Hill (bruce.hill]

I've been binge-ing on the "Dinner with Racer's" podcast. They have a season of shows that they videoed last year and they put them up on Amazon Prime Video. They did an excellent show on Smokey Yunick.

One of the things he did on that NASCAR Chevy Chevelle that got him tossed out of Daytona was with the fuel lines. It was about 4 inches in diameter and held something like 3.9 gallons!

They said he had to use a smaller standard diameter line, so he did, but used many, many feet of it to basically hold the same amount! They took the gas tank out of the car and he drove off. Said he could have probably driven all the way to Ft. Lauderdale.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:01 PM Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

Don Garlits –

Imagine – a southerner, challenging New Jersey, Ohio, Southern California?

Why he’s nothing but a swamp rat . . . . OOoooh yeah –

Doug

 

From: Lashdeep Singh <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:33 PM
To: Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] New Type of Fire Extinguisher

 

Smokey was an innovator!

 

Not many others like him in history.

 

Jim Hall

Colin Chapman

Mark Donohue

Grumpy Jenkins

 

I am missing a few more...

 

When I think of fire extinguishers and F1, I can’t unsee the images of Tom Pryce meeting his fate.

 

Unfortunately, the young track marshall did as well.

 

For that reason alone, I am very interested in the small and light solution that CG has presented us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Jun 4, 2020, at 17:44, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:



Fire extinguishers and Formula One.

 

Rule one – build a car right up to the rule book specifications.

Rule two - Never cross the line – nudging the line is OK until caught.

 

Long Beach GP, Someplace in the early ‘80’s when the Turbo era hatched.  One item de rigueur with the Turbo was an induction side intercooler. And oh – if the intercooler were sprayed with water the heat of evaporation cooled the incoming charge even better.  So far – we’re up to “The Line.” 

 

Now let’s nudge it.  Fire extinguishers were big and bulky and right under the nose of everyone.  Tubes leading everywhere.  And in one car there was a special fire extinguisher filled nitrous Oxide with its tubes ending at the turbo intakes down low to the ground and hopefully, just passed over.  When the press to pass button was depressed and the car smoked the tires passing another qualifying car - - - It wasn’t overlooked and serious Tut-Tuts were awarded along with dismantling of the offensive gas equipment.

 

I love racing – Especially early NASCAR.  Especially Smokey Yunick.

 

Heh heh

Doug

 

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