New Era. We are wanting change

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by 6130

Racing Dust Busters sounds almost as exciting as not doing it.

Drag racing is not the only motorsports discipline that my wife and I are interested in- when we were on the Isle Of Man for the TT races, the electric motorcycles were by far the least exciting class.

You need to read the article on the Ford site that Tony Stewart wrote about racing the CJ electric car. According to him (an expert on drag racing), the only difference that he noticed was that the electric version did not torque over during acceleration. Considering that the electric motor was attached to a conventional automatic transmission with a driveshaft and rearend, I'm pretty sure the reminder of the chassis was not aware of where the power came from. To make matters worse, no one at Ford was technically aware of the way that the car was constructed to catch the error in his comments and let the press release go out as is. Also, to avoid embarasement, they didn't report the ET's. Not to say it isn't fast but maybe they should put Jeff Lane who knows how to drive it in the car for the exhibition runs.