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From: veritas on 23 Jun 2010 03:06
On 23/06/2010 1:38 PM, Diesel Damo wrote:
> On Jun 23, 1:11 pm, "Noddy"<m...(a)home.com> wrote:
>> "Diesel Damo"<Diesel_...(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>>
>> news:9330a141-1b75-412e-97cf-ca6f5fa6c140(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> I think that's the real question; can a standard road-going car with
>>> whatever tyres make that turn at that speed, in a tunnel narrow enough
>>> to have a circular ceiling?
>>
>> I expect the short answer is no.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Noddy.
>
> That's where my money would be.

*I reckon it could have been done with the right tunnel and more Minis*

The entrance and exits to the sewer sequence were in Turin, but the
actual 'in tunnel' footage was shot in the Birmingham-Coventry Tithebarn
main sewer located in Stoke Aldermoor in Coventry, which was under
construction at the time. Remy Julienne attempted to do a full 360 of
the tunnel. The first time the car fell off, although it didn't kill the
driver as is often reported. The second time it skidded on algae. The
third time the car hit a lip at the top of the tunnel which wrecked the
suspension. The Coopers then had to negotiate the weir on Turin's River Po.
From: Noddy on 23 Jun 2010 06:37

"veritas" <veritas(a)ghntk.com> wrote in message
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> *I reckon it could have been done with the right tunnel and more Minis*

I do to, provided they were able to approach the tunnel walls at something
near a right angle.

--
Regards,
Noddy.


From: Scotty on 23 Jun 2010 06:49

"Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message news:4c21e57d$0$1204$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net...
:
: "veritas" <veritas(a)ghntk.com> wrote in message
: news:hvsbr1$f3$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
:
: > *I reckon it could have been done with the right tunnel and more Minis*
:
: I do to, provided they were able to approach the tunnel walls at something
: near a right angle.
:
: --
: Regards,
: Noddy.
:
:
An F1 car can in theory drive upside down. Finding a long enough tunnel for it to do so would be the
hard part!


From: Noddy on 23 Jun 2010 06:55

" Scotty" <scoter1(a)warmmail.com> wrote in message
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> An F1 car can in theory drive upside down. Finding a long enough tunnel
> for it to do so would be the
> hard part!

As John said the other night, the *really* hard part would be getting it to
run upside down for long before it ran out of fuel :)

--
Regards,
Noddy.



From: F Murtz on 23 Jun 2010 07:47
Noddy wrote:
> " Scotty"<scoter1(a)warmmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4c21e69f$0$18229$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au...
>
>> An F1 car can in theory drive upside down. Finding a long enough tunnel
>> for it to do so would be the
>> hard part!
>
> As John said the other night, the *really* hard part would be getting it to
> run upside down for long before it ran out of fuel :)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Noddy.
>
>
>
Engines must work upside down, I just watched half of the poseidon
adventure and after the ship turned completely upside down the lights
stayed on.
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