Shaman
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get TAFB to reprogram it for you in the Timmies parking lot
Shhhhh, he's not finished digging! I want to see how far down he gets.Dude, that would have been an awesome burn if you were actually right, or ever raced a bike, or anything like that.
More serious question--is Pike's peak high enough for altitude sickness to affect the participants?
Yes. Drivers complain about the last 30% of the run and running out of breath. But even crews feel the effects. I wonder if any drivers take EPO for this race.
Viagra works well for altitude sickness (not kidding). Personally, if I was planning on doing this, I would try to spend a week at near the highest altitude to get use to it, then when you drop down to start the race, you will have more ox than you are used to.
If the lack of oxygen affected the drivers too much, I would expect that they would bring some with them (either a supplemental o2 bottle or a slightly enriched bottle of air (ie. ~28% o2))
Talking about bench racers...:lmao:
As much as I hate to use NASCAR as an example for talking about racing, you can see an example of what I'm trying to explain in the races they hold with restriction plates in the intake - they run a much higher compression ratio than normal to try to compensate as much as possible for the choked off air supply. You can apply the same approach when building a naturally aspirated engine for hill climbs.
High compression, and start the race with a retarded timing map slightly to avoid detonation, increasing the timing as you climb and the available air (and therefore fuel we can inject to be burned) decrease.
It's definitely a disadvantage, but they're not losing 40hp (as that calculator website would suggest) from start to finish.
The arrogant tone of my posts makes you wish I was wrong, but I'm not.
Yes. Drivers complain about the last 30% of the run and running out of breath. But even crews feel the effects. I wonder if any drivers take EPO for this race.