Champ Cars Push to Pass System...

[Red coupe]

Quote »Champ Car Pilots To Get Extra Boost from Push-to-Pass System

INDIANAPOLIS (March 9, 2004) ­ In an effort to make for more competition onthe race track and to increase passing opportunities for the drivers, theBridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford and CosworthRacing announced today that they have developed a Œpush-to-pass¹ mechanismfor the Ford-Cosworth XFE racing engines in 2004.

The innovation will give drivers a chance to increase their boost from 41.5to 44 inches of mercury with the push of a button, a system that will givethem an extra 50 horsepower per use. The drivers will have the ability touse the increased boost for a total of 60 seconds per race, a time that isequivalent to five applications on the average main straightaway of a ChampCar circuit.[/quote]Full Article

It may be old new but champ-car is on and this forum is dead so I got to thinking...

What do you all think of the system? I don't really like it. all drives may still have equal footing but its an extra strategy a driver must apply correctly in order to win. Id personally rather see the better drive finish first, not the one who was best at when to push a button.....

[Joe]

i think its a good idea from a spectator standpoint, but a bad idea from a series standpoint.

[nismofly]

i think theyve had this for a while, i remember i used to see them using it a few years ago

maybe they just changed the amount of time or something?

[Red coupe]

It may be old news but ...

they hav had it since 2004, so its definately not new, I was just thinking about it the other day and trying to get some posts going in this forum

[nismofly]

no im saying i remeber when CART was still real big, think like 01 or 02, they had the system...i remember that when they all had enough gas at the end of the race they used to use the system a lot

it used to just be called "full rich" or something like that, but same idea, it upped the boost a bit and fed in the approprite fuel to keep the car running right

to me it always reminds me of F&F and nitrous, which scares me

[Red coupe]

to me it always reminds me of F&F and nitrous, which scares me

same thing that came into my head. I guess its a somewhat good idea from marketing stand point, makes for more action, and we know how some people like to complain about a lack of passing. Personally I just like seeing people drive real good. Passing is great to see, but IMO only when its a display of skill. To watch one driver stalk then set up and just slip by another is the great part, not watching him rocket by all of a sudden with a 50hp boost...I don't watch much of this racing but most of the passes I've seen made with the aid of the added boost were not even close to thrilling. Seeing a pass being made in something like F1 makes you hold your breath with anticipation, This makes you grin at the novelty of one launching past the other.

[s13sr20chris]

agreed. all the good series are trying to have "nascaresque" passing and it wont happen. road racing is tough. also, the drivers are not monkeying around and bumping each other all the time. walla, less passing but you retain the feeling of superiority because your racing is better.

[Red coupe]

ugg Im not a fan of nascar, but im usually first in line to say "Well it does take a lot of skill, its just different racing" but lately I watch speed tv alot so I hear a bit of discussion. Oval racing will always be more prone to rubbing, lots more side by side BUT This whole thing recently with all the wrecks being blamed on "bump drafting" is ridiculous. since when do professional race car drivers slam into each other at full speed on purpose, then write it off as strategy....save the contact for the figure 8 races....

[s13sr20chris]

haha, yeah. i cant believe people even do that figure 8 stuff. thats nuts.