Simple Daytona Prototype Question
08-12-2007, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
So? DP cars' headlights are at ground level. Good luck seeing them in your mirrors when sitting in a GT car. Most DP cars I have seen have self-illuminating instruments. In fact, the vast majority have a single LED/LCD Motec display. So they don't need illumination from behind the driver. I know several DP drivers, and they are the source of what I posted.
08-12-2007, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by kurt M
Dash lights. I have heard the announcers explain this many times sometimesincluding that this is the required method for DP cars.
How can that be, when they are a single self-illuminating Motec display?
08-12-2007, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
How can that be, when they are a single self-illuminating Motec display?
I also heard Dorsey Schrader explain it that way. The dash has its on illumination, but the other switches do not. ie) ign. switch, fuel, aux. swithces. The red light is too help illuminte the rest of the dash switches....according to his explination.
08-12-2007, 07:13 PM
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It appears this question wasn't as simple as I thought it would be....
08-12-2007, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Greg Fishman
Yes they are low but so what? They are angled and the GT cars have no issue seeing them. Right the rear red lights are to light up other controls, most have Motec dashes. Read the rules and show me where the red interior light is mandatory, I couldn't find it. If this was a safety issue it would be in there. The only thing mentioned is that in races where both GT and DP cars run, the GT cars have to have amber lens covers.
Oh, brother.
I didn't know you were taking this personally.
It looks as if we have been told 2 different explanations by folks we presumed to be authoritative. Let's leave it at that.
08-12-2007, 07:34 PM
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Ok, maybe they are not to see the gauges, but all the switches and controls around the cockpit...
08-12-2007, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
Oh, brother.
I didn't know you were taking this personally.
It looks as if we have been told 2 different explanations by folks we presumed to be authoritative. Let's leave it at that.
I didn't know you were taking this personally.
It looks as if we have been told 2 different explanations by folks we presumed to be authoritative. Let's leave it at that.
08-13-2007, 02:29 PM
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Let me throw some more confusion on this subject....back in my old IMSA days we'd mount lights of various colors and configurations on our cars to help us identify them at night on the circuit and when coming down pit road. Especially multi-car teams so we could tell which car we were looking at if they were painted in a similar fashion. They originally started as a marker light usually mounted externally on the car. As we became more "sophisticated" and learned about aerodynamics we moved the lights inside the car, flush-mounted in a mirror, or some such place, in order to not add anymore drag. We had a really neat neon one that sat in the back window on the driver's side of our 911. They still use these ID lights on cars at LeMans, and in the ALMS.
Now I'm sure some of those lights might illuminate the interior areas on fuse panels ad etc in order to see stuff the driver usually wouldn't pay any atention to unless he had a problem, but I'd bet some of those are also ID lights just like back in the good old days.
Now I'm sure some of those lights might illuminate the interior areas on fuse panels ad etc in order to see stuff the driver usually wouldn't pay any atention to unless he had a problem, but I'd bet some of those are also ID lights just like back in the good old days.
08-13-2007, 03:26 PM
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VR. Only thing on a race car dash is the Motec guage? How is the driver going to find his cell phoneand coffee cup holder when a corner comes up and he needs both hands for a second?
Again I know for a fact that I have heard the red lights been explained, more than once, as being for lighting up the dash. I did not say Guage lights. The anouncers explained that they were Dash lights.
I don't drive a DP car and have in fact never sat in one nor did I stay in a hotel last night but I can say that I have watched most of the races and stayed awake for most of the ones I watched.
Post #1 had a good question and Post #2 had the answer.
If I did not know better I might think you were tryng to be a pest there Volume Replier.
Again I know for a fact that I have heard the red lights been explained, more than once, as being for lighting up the dash. I did not say Guage lights. The anouncers explained that they were Dash lights.
I don't drive a DP car and have in fact never sat in one nor did I stay in a hotel last night but I can say that I have watched most of the races and stayed awake for most of the ones I watched.
Post #1 had a good question and Post #2 had the answer.
If I did not know better I might think you were tryng to be a pest there Volume Replier.
08-14-2007, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by rmag
Guess the 2 clowns in the announcers booth didn't know what the heck they were talking about.
Was this the first race you've ever seen on TV?
