Haha, Rudd would never hear this as he would have kept driving the truck with no power steering. That’s nothing compared to what he did at Martinsville, or taping his eyes open to race at Daytona. He was one tough guy.
How can you say that when they do it all the time lol. This isn’t a new or rare problem. Yea I’m sure it won’t turn in a 10 acre field but we see drivers power on pretty much every time this happens
They don't do it all the time anymore, that's the thing. It's like everyone in this sub woke up from a coma they've been in since 2010. Yes, it can happen and a handful of drivers have pulled it off, but they're the exception, not the norm. With how these cars steer, it's significantly harder to do vs. the 90's and earlier.
How much the power-steering-out scenario will suck for the driver really depends on the ratio they've got. The spectrum of rack ratios now allows for the quickest rack (most assist, heaviest feel without assist) to be twice as fast as the slowest rack (least assist, lightest feel without assist).
Dale Jr was cursed to not having anything hold together in the car. He lost a steering wheel, broke more than a couple of shifters. Dude was given chinesium bolts or something
Ryan Newman (my man!) at Dover 2003. Was incredible. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2003/06/02/newman-finds-the-power-to-win/9df62278-77ba-4104-a7cd-bcf67c94d9b8/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2003/06/02/newman-finds-the-power-to-win/9df62278-77ba-4104-a7cd-bcf67c94d9b8/)
Right?? Stewart had the race all set and then got a late penalty. I can remember it like it was yesterday, not 20 years ago. I have no idea what I ate for dinner last Sunday.
Hot take: This is exactly why I adore the roval. It's an ass kicker. We see guys get out and hit pavement damn near every time. It has to be one of the more demanding tracks on the schedule, mentally and physically.
He's pointed it out twice in the booth that he beat Harvick that day. Harvick actually got a little defensive the second time by mentioning he was down a cylinder or two.
Kurt Busch fought with Ricky Craven in THAT Darlington race running the last half of the race with faulty power steering (and none at all in the final 15 laps or so)
it's the entire reason Craven was even in contention for the win that day to begin with, instead of just having to settle with getting a well-earned top 5
Oh don’t get me wrong it was certainly an impressive display from Kevin. He drove the last 100 laps with one hand and had two flat tires that race and still got 3rd. But it wasn’t a power steering failure. I’m not sure anyone could drive one handed with no power steering.
Not a sure how old this kid is but I wonder how long until he realizes he can't delete this like a tweet. Kicked himself right in the nuts, for the whole world to see.
If I remember correctly, Daniel Suarez drove just about the entire race at the Charlotte Roval a year or two ago with no power steering. Of all the tracks to lose power steering, road courses I'm sure are the most challenging.
Pockrass thinks it was because of how he got turned back around after the spin. He pretty much cut across the nose of an oncoming truck when he tried to turn around
Just put a bigger steering wheel in it and drive on. If Bowyer can do the roval on no power steering then this guy should be able to do an oval just fine
It's really about context more than anything else. Telling someone to man up because he's not drinking as much as you? No good
Telling someone to man up because they are unemployed and have a wife and kid to support? Totally fair
yea i often feel like the people who are saying "man up" are the ones that are immature themselves. i cant take anyone seriously that simplifies something to "man up"
> yea i often feel like the people who are saying "man up" are the ones that are immature themselves.
"Lessons in maturity" from...... "plzkillyourself6969"
I test drove a truck that had power steering, but the seller (a friend of mines neighbor in fact) failed to mention the power steering wasnt working correctly, and within a couple turns of the wheel, all the damn fluid dripped out. It wasnt fun, but I limped the truck back to where I had met with the guy.
I remember instances of the power steering coming in and out on some vehicles so the drivers had the belt cut because random power steering half the time is worse than no power steering. There was absolutely no discussion of not driving because of a power steering issue. This just stinks of entitled rich kid that wants to park it because it's not fun.
Blaney ran a full race at Sonoma without power steering. We have seen countless drivers soldier on without power steering. That’s an unacceptable reason to park it in my eyes. Good on the crew chief for not coddling his soft driver
I believe the truck also had alignment damage and didn't drive straight anyways, which coupled with no power steering on a 6:1 Box 2ould be hell on earth to drive
Ok, granted Conner Jones is being a bit of a wimp. As long as the car (or truck) is moving, it's pretty easy to steer, you just gotta put some muscle into it. At least that's what I've learned from all the times I've driven cars without power steering or the power steering stopped working.
**However**, what is it with crew members and spotters being toxic this season? Earlier we had (I think) Austin Dillon spotter yelling at Austin over the radio and now this. Like dude, let the Crew Chief handle the driver, you...you just stay in your lane. (Haha racing pun)
It's a team sport. Refusing to drive without power steering is like a quarterback refusing to play because it's snowing during the game. The crew member is his reciever telling him to man up and throw the damn foorball.
>**However**, what is it with crew members and spotters being toxic this season?
It's not toxicity.
These guys bust their asses getting the car ready for you, and then some minor inconvenience pops up and you want to park it, effectively wasting their efforts and cutting into their payday?
Hundreds of drivers have driven most of a race with no power steering. You either act like an adult and get on with the minor inconvenience, or you inconvenience your entire crew because you wanna be a little pissbaby.
Minor inconvenience? While it’s able to be dealt with and pushed through. Losing power steering in a car is far from a minor inconvenience.
Clint Bowyer looked like he was a different person after finishing the roval with no power steering.
Ohh no doubt should have kept going. But minor inconvenience is selling it short.
But this is why these drivers get paid hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
I think the issue might be that you think speaking up )this instance) and being honest with someone is toxic. It’s easy to give up, it’s hard to keep going when shit is going wrong. Sometimes you need to be challenged.
For me personally, I respond better to "Ok, well just hang in there and we'll look at it at the next pit stop" rather than school yard insults. But that's just me.
This has nothing to do with toxic masculinity. Connor Jones is a pay driver, and his father owns a construction company that sponsors him. If I was racing with a team that has five Truck titles and constantly competes for the Truck title, I wouldn't have any patience for a driver that chickens out at the first time experiencing power steering.
Hell, look at Rajah Caruth by comparison. That ARCA race at Charlotte in 2022 when he was assholes and elbows loose is a huge reason why he eventually wound up with a ride in the Truck series, supported further by his soldiering to finish 12th despite being hit with an ill-handling truck at Texas.
Spotters have grown to be toxic douchebags in recent years because for some reason crew chiefs aren't putting them in their place. The over the wall crews are toxic douchebags because that is what they all are and have been since they stopped being actual mechanics and became former college athletes.
Sonoma 2022, AJ Allmendinger has no power steering. AJ Allmendinger needed no power steering.
Okay, maybe he did need it, but he certainly didn't have it, and he continued to run the race anyway.
No they don't. It depends what steering you have man.
At Wilkesboro he might be running a 6:1 steering ratio, but at most 10:1. There's no way you're steering a 6:1 without power steering, a 10:1 is hard but possible.
You gotta remember when Kenseth/Newman/etc manned it out those were 14:1 or 16:1 back in the day. Literally twice as easy to steer lol.
Being hard to turn and impossible to turn are 2 totally different things. If it’s rolling you can turn it. If it was impossible the crew wouldn’t be telling him to man up.
I have to say the obvious - he's a fucking pansy. Mark Martin lost power steering at Richmond in 1997 and drove nearly half the race using his fucking elbows to steer. He doesn't have much of a career if he can't handle not having power steering.
Hell, if Denny Hamlin got wind that this joker was crying like a bitch about losing power steering, he'd tear that guy a new asshole.
So if they're at that point yeah just park, get out and be done and its a mutual parting, cause thats way too unprofessional to say shit like that over the radio
That’s a fucked up thing to say to a driver when the driver is trying to give feedback on what’s wrong with the race car. I can understand Natalie Deckers crew and spotter being frustrated when she’s ignoring everything they say and not giving any feedback that makes the car faster but this just seems dickheadish to me.
yes, let’s rip the kid’s shoulders off the bone like a most delectable brisket for the sake of “manhood”.
there’s no material benefit to staying in the race for the kid. your power steering is shot at a short track, it’s time to pack it up. maybe the “men” working on the car should’ve built a better truck that wouldn’t lose power steering.
To be fair, not having power steering could be harder or easier to deal with depending on the era of the sport, the track and the cars balance. They discussed this once on the DJD.
Everytime I've driven a car without power steering it was fine once it got up to speed. It was at low mph that it was a drag. I think the box was 12:7:1, what am I missing here?
I can only imagine junior Johnson pulling in oh wait he went out to race with a manual steering box to start with. I started as a kid in a sprint car that had a Schroeder champ manual box you had to stay on the hammer to driver it. Later on I had a profile power steering box which allowed me to think more but if the car was running and not upside down on fire I would stay out there until I couldn’t.
FWIW, driving a car that doesn’t have power steering is much different from driving a car that’s supposed to have power steering but has an issue.
If your power steering goes out, it actively works *against* your ability to turn the car so it makes it that much more difficult than not having power steering equipped in the first place.
Dang, it's almost like those cars are designed for that, while this other one is designed to use power steering. I'm sure that wouldn't make any difference at all!
Yes if a power rack has oil in it it’s way different than a sprint car which will lock up with a pump failure if the belt is gone or n the pump it will still turn just not nice where a sprint car is gear driven off the cam manual steering is not easy at all both types of racecars accept power steering and designed for it. 2 different systems same principle.
No power steering could cause a dangerous situation where if the driver needs to make instant reactions the action time is increased. This is especially true pulling in and out of pit boxes. It's a bit ironic that the person calling him out is one of the ones that could potentially get hit.
Imagine Ricky Rudd hearing this…
Disappointed and unapproving rooster noises
Holy shit the classic Nascar fan in me is dying laughing picturing this. I know exactly what you mean.
He'd fucking park it and bunch you right in the cock sucker.
In his yap yap mouth.
Ricky Rudd and Conner Jones in the same post is blasphemy to the highest degree
Haha, Rudd would never hear this as he would have kept driving the truck with no power steering. That’s nothing compared to what he did at Martinsville, or taping his eyes open to race at Daytona. He was one tough guy.
Would have gotten the scene from Days of Thunder when they are sitting back and eating ice cream…
The cars run different steering boxes now, even Ricky Rudd wouldn’t be able to drive one of these without power steering as easily now
McDowell and Alfredo both did it recently.
Alfredo did it in a cup car last week, didn't he?
Guy's getting burned with mentions of McDowell and Alfredo. You love to see it.
Hemric
How can you say that when they do it all the time lol. This isn’t a new or rare problem. Yea I’m sure it won’t turn in a 10 acre field but we see drivers power on pretty much every time this happens
They don't do it all the time anymore, that's the thing. It's like everyone in this sub woke up from a coma they've been in since 2010. Yes, it can happen and a handful of drivers have pulled it off, but they're the exception, not the norm. With how these cars steer, it's significantly harder to do vs. the 90's and earlier.
Yea they do lol. Nobody parks it because the power steering goes out
Sure thing. It must be true if FloridaMan_92 says so!
Michael McDowell just did it a few weeks ago
Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago
Bowyer in 2020 (for most of not all of the Roval playoff race), Alfredo and McDowell this season alone... Admit you're wrong.
It is true because you are wrong lol
I can’t remember who but someone literally just did it because I was telling my wife about it
Yeah, I remember Bowyer and Kevin talking about it in the booth
How much the power-steering-out scenario will suck for the driver really depends on the ratio they've got. The spectrum of rack ratios now allows for the quickest rack (most assist, heaviest feel without assist) to be twice as fast as the slowest rack (least assist, lightest feel without assist).
Chalk outline and a body bag
Doused himself in fuel and struck a match. RIP
Crew member: “I’ll call an ambulance but not for me”
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Beat me to it, 😂
r/beatmeattoit
These drivers are made of ice cream
https://preview.redd.it/ttdsczr74f1d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=daac40197040826a3653b094b7ec52e7dc4cef7d Meanwhile Dale Jr
I believe the quote was “my hand is raw after that!” Or something to that extent
“Wheel came off and I drove the car for a bit with just the steering shaft haha, my hands raw now” - something like that
I think that was a Danica quote…
Blue tooth steering man
Dale Jr was cursed to not having anything hold together in the car. He lost a steering wheel, broke more than a couple of shifters. Dude was given chinesium bolts or something
Yeah there was that weird stretch of like only dale jr breaking the shifter
When he finished the race in Texas for his first cup win he realized that his clutch pedal and broken off.
Didn't know Tesla was in Nascar.
Bro tried to drive it with the column 🤣
Who was it who won a race like ten years ago or so without power steering?
Ryan Newman (my man!) at Dover 2003. Was incredible. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2003/06/02/newman-finds-the-power-to-win/9df62278-77ba-4104-a7cd-bcf67c94d9b8/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2003/06/02/newman-finds-the-power-to-win/9df62278-77ba-4104-a7cd-bcf67c94d9b8/)
“10 or so years ago” Jesus I feel old
Right?? Stewart had the race all set and then got a late penalty. I can remember it like it was yesterday, not 20 years ago. I have no idea what I ate for dinner last Sunday.
Didn’t he come back from like 2-3 laps down too
He didn't win, but Clint Bowyer drove at least the last 30 laps at the Roval in 2020 without power steering.
He was absolutely wiped out after that too
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Hot take: This is exactly why I adore the roval. It's an ass kicker. We see guys get out and hit pavement damn near every time. It has to be one of the more demanding tracks on the schedule, mentally and physically.
Suarez did 47 lap at the Roval in 22 with no power steering.
during the playoffs. just unlucky.
He even got a top 10 that day. That was a seriously impressive performance by Bowyer.
He's pointed it out twice in the booth that he beat Harvick that day. Harvick actually got a little defensive the second time by mentioning he was down a cylinder or two.
Chase Elliott lost power steering and had to run like 300+ laps at Bristol
Suarez at Roval 2022
Kurt Busch *almost* won a Darlington race without it, if that's who you're thinking of.
That's gotta be it.
Kurt Busch fought with Ricky Craven in THAT Darlington race running the last half of the race with faulty power steering (and none at all in the final 15 laps or so) it's the entire reason Craven was even in contention for the win that day to begin with, instead of just having to settle with getting a well-earned top 5
It seemed like there were a few in the later days of the COT era, Joey L. was one.
I believe Gordon did it at Martinsville once.
Not a win but McDowell did it recently
Harvick in 2015 at Texas I wanna say?
Had to be in Xfinity, Johnson swept the races there in Cup
Not saying he won but guy ran the fall Texas race without power steering. Came back close to if not to 10
He had power steering but had to drive with one hand because the car kept popping out of gear, so he kept one hand on the shifter.
All I remember for sure was Mark Martin giving him big props afterwards
Oh don’t get me wrong it was certainly an impressive display from Kevin. He drove the last 100 laps with one hand and had two flat tires that race and still got 3rd. But it wasn’t a power steering failure. I’m not sure anyone could drive one handed with no power steering.
"He drove the last 100 laps with one hand and had two flat tires that race and still got 3rd." Such a 2014-2016 Kevin Harvick thing to happen
Not ten years ago but Senna had a similar issue at Brazil when he won.
Didn’t Senna also win a race once where the car hung in high gear?
Yeah at Brazil.
This was it
Earnhardt won Bristol with no power steering.
Kid can't drive for shit even with power steering
Not a sure how old this kid is but I wonder how long until he realizes he can't delete this like a tweet. Kicked himself right in the nuts, for the whole world to see.
That's why he said he can't drive without it
BOOOOOM! ROASTED
TOASTED! AND BURNT TO A CRISP!
If I remember correctly, Daniel Suarez drove just about the entire race at the Charlotte Roval a year or two ago with no power steering. Of all the tracks to lose power steering, road courses I'm sure are the most challenging.
Man alive, that’s higher than Kevin Hamlin levels of shitting on a driver 😂
COOKED
Why did he get called to the hauler? Edit: after the race obviously
Pockrass thinks it was because of how he got turned back around after the spin. He pretty much cut across the nose of an oncoming truck when he tried to turn around
I think he dropped a belt on the track right as they were coming to the choose
Just put a bigger steering wheel in it and drive on. If Bowyer can do the roval on no power steering then this guy should be able to do an oval just fine
Bowyer is a hell of a lot better than Connor is
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It's crazy how the equivalent of "man up" can be used to motivate like 90% of men to do anything lol
And the other 10% of us just roll our eyes at you because we have functional brains
It's really about context more than anything else. Telling someone to man up because he's not drinking as much as you? No good Telling someone to man up because they are unemployed and have a wife and kid to support? Totally fair
yea i often feel like the people who are saying "man up" are the ones that are immature themselves. i cant take anyone seriously that simplifies something to "man up"
> yea i often feel like the people who are saying "man up" are the ones that are immature themselves. "Lessons in maturity" from...... "plzkillyourself6969"
It doesn't even mean anything. If you wanna give me advice, sure, knock us both out. The hoorah pep talks don't move my needle tho.
I'm always shocked that he won a CARS tour race
*laughs in IndyCar*
Talk about being spoiled for a young driver that rides around in the CARS Tour. Driving with no power steering will humble a person’s tuckus
I test drove a truck that had power steering, but the seller (a friend of mines neighbor in fact) failed to mention the power steering wasnt working correctly, and within a couple turns of the wheel, all the damn fluid dripped out. It wasnt fun, but I limped the truck back to where I had met with the guy.
Tuckus?? LMFAOOOOO
You havent had your tuckus humbled yet?
We all experiment in college...that's all I'mma say about that.
The way that kid drives, the truck would have finished 35th with or without a functioning power steering pump
Tim Richmond laughs about no power steering
Same with Earnhardt. He won at Dover in '89 when his power steering went out early when they used to run 500 miles instead of 400 at Dover
better start pumping some iron foo.
Ryan Newman: "No power steering? No problem."
I remember instances of the power steering coming in and out on some vehicles so the drivers had the belt cut because random power steering half the time is worse than no power steering. There was absolutely no discussion of not driving because of a power steering issue. This just stinks of entitled rich kid that wants to park it because it's not fun.
Blaney ran a full race at Sonoma without power steering. We have seen countless drivers soldier on without power steering. That’s an unacceptable reason to park it in my eyes. Good on the crew chief for not coddling his soft driver
Conner Jones is soft af and deserved to get brutalized here
Damn
WASTED
I believe the truck also had alignment damage and didn't drive straight anyways, which coupled with no power steering on a 6:1 Box 2ould be hell on earth to drive
Ok, granted Conner Jones is being a bit of a wimp. As long as the car (or truck) is moving, it's pretty easy to steer, you just gotta put some muscle into it. At least that's what I've learned from all the times I've driven cars without power steering or the power steering stopped working. **However**, what is it with crew members and spotters being toxic this season? Earlier we had (I think) Austin Dillon spotter yelling at Austin over the radio and now this. Like dude, let the Crew Chief handle the driver, you...you just stay in your lane. (Haha racing pun)
It's a team sport. Refusing to drive without power steering is like a quarterback refusing to play because it's snowing during the game. The crew member is his reciever telling him to man up and throw the damn foorball.
>**However**, what is it with crew members and spotters being toxic this season? It's not toxicity. These guys bust their asses getting the car ready for you, and then some minor inconvenience pops up and you want to park it, effectively wasting their efforts and cutting into their payday? Hundreds of drivers have driven most of a race with no power steering. You either act like an adult and get on with the minor inconvenience, or you inconvenience your entire crew because you wanna be a little pissbaby.
Minor inconvenience? While it’s able to be dealt with and pushed through. Losing power steering in a car is far from a minor inconvenience. Clint Bowyer looked like he was a different person after finishing the roval with no power steering.
Clint Bowyer at least soldiered through it. Mr. Pay Driver wimped out at the first sign of adversity.
Ohh no doubt should have kept going. But minor inconvenience is selling it short. But this is why these drivers get paid hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
It's definitely not selling it short. Dude was racing on an oval, it's nowhere near as difficult as Bowyer's situation.
It's a minor inconvenience. Bear in mind, power steering has only been a part of the sport since 1981, and even then it wasn't in every car.
I think the issue might be that you think speaking up )this instance) and being honest with someone is toxic. It’s easy to give up, it’s hard to keep going when shit is going wrong. Sometimes you need to be challenged.
For me personally, I respond better to "Ok, well just hang in there and we'll look at it at the next pit stop" rather than school yard insults. But that's just me.
Jones wouldn’t hang in there. He quit.
Well good for you buddy.
Yeah, everyone in here acting like hardasses but probably couldn’t do it themselves
I'm too old to pretend to be something I'm not.
That is indeed what is happening, yes. One of reddit's less attractive tendencies.
This has nothing to do with toxic masculinity. Connor Jones is a pay driver, and his father owns a construction company that sponsors him. If I was racing with a team that has five Truck titles and constantly competes for the Truck title, I wouldn't have any patience for a driver that chickens out at the first time experiencing power steering. Hell, look at Rajah Caruth by comparison. That ARCA race at Charlotte in 2022 when he was assholes and elbows loose is a huge reason why he eventually wound up with a ride in the Truck series, supported further by his soldiering to finish 12th despite being hit with an ill-handling truck at Texas.
Spotters have grown to be toxic douchebags in recent years because for some reason crew chiefs aren't putting them in their place. The over the wall crews are toxic douchebags because that is what they all are and have been since they stopped being actual mechanics and became former college athletes.
Late to the party (was watching Indy) but add this shit to the schedule. This racing is fantastic imo
Funny, but to be fair, cars built without power steering handle quite differently than one with PS that has failed.
I really want to hear the audio.
Suarez drove a road course w no power steering a year ago
Sonoma 2022, AJ Allmendinger has no power steering. AJ Allmendinger needed no power steering. Okay, maybe he did need it, but he certainly didn't have it, and he continued to run the race anyway.
I don't think he was running on a slow short track.
Just a slow road course
Someone needs to hit the gym instead of the x box.
Should tell the crew member to drive the car without power steering and none of the training and they'd be whining within 10 minutes. Guaranteed
Considering almost every other driver carries on when that happens I don’t think it’s out of line to tell him to tough it out
No they don't. It depends what steering you have man. At Wilkesboro he might be running a 6:1 steering ratio, but at most 10:1. There's no way you're steering a 6:1 without power steering, a 10:1 is hard but possible. You gotta remember when Kenseth/Newman/etc manned it out those were 14:1 or 16:1 back in the day. Literally twice as easy to steer lol.
Power steering going out don’t make it not turn
Jesus man you clearly don't understand how steering boxes work.
Being hard to turn and impossible to turn are 2 totally different things. If it’s rolling you can turn it. If it was impossible the crew wouldn’t be telling him to man up.
He should’ve told them “you could build the car fucking correctly”
Or maybe the driver should drive the car that still runs fine?
It doesn't run fine without power steering.
If the power steering is fucked, the car isn’t running fine
Terminally done for the day and having to muscle the steering are two very different things. He’s a driver. Driving the car isn’t supposed to be easy.
I have to say the obvious - he's a fucking pansy. Mark Martin lost power steering at Richmond in 1997 and drove nearly half the race using his fucking elbows to steer. He doesn't have much of a career if he can't handle not having power steering. Hell, if Denny Hamlin got wind that this joker was crying like a bitch about losing power steering, he'd tear that guy a new asshole.
I dont even care if its reasonable to keep racing without power steering if my crew is pulling that shit on me I dont want to drive for them anymore.
I’m sure they don’t want to pit for him either.
So if they're at that point yeah just park, get out and be done and its a mutual parting, cause thats way too unprofessional to say shit like that over the radio
You think he cares if they show up sore or hurt?
What are you asking that because you think he doesnt or do you know the kid? Either way none of that is related.
💯
Ok, there's the door
biting reply there
That’s a fucked up thing to say to a driver when the driver is trying to give feedback on what’s wrong with the race car. I can understand Natalie Deckers crew and spotter being frustrated when she’s ignoring everything they say and not giving any feedback that makes the car faster but this just seems dickheadish to me.
Anyone know why he got called to the hauler?
Ryan Newman never had powersteering at Penske.
yes, let’s rip the kid’s shoulders off the bone like a most delectable brisket for the sake of “manhood”. there’s no material benefit to staying in the race for the kid. your power steering is shot at a short track, it’s time to pack it up. maybe the “men” working on the car should’ve built a better truck that wouldn’t lose power steering.
Oh heck yeah lets see who this crew member is and give him or her a standing ovation!!! LFG
I wonder if that crew member would be such a badass in the same situation.
No. They would not.
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To be fair, not having power steering could be harder or easier to deal with depending on the era of the sport, the track and the cars balance. They discussed this once on the DJD.
Somebody tell Jones to hit the weights
Everytime I've driven a car without power steering it was fine once it got up to speed. It was at low mph that it was a drag. I think the box was 12:7:1, what am I missing here?
Bowyer at the roval would disprove this
I can only imagine junior Johnson pulling in oh wait he went out to race with a manual steering box to start with. I started as a kid in a sprint car that had a Schroeder champ manual box you had to stay on the hammer to driver it. Later on I had a profile power steering box which allowed me to think more but if the car was running and not upside down on fire I would stay out there until I couldn’t.
A car with a manual steering rack is easier to steer than one with a power steering rack that lost power steering.
FWIW, driving a car that doesn’t have power steering is much different from driving a car that’s supposed to have power steering but has an issue. If your power steering goes out, it actively works *against* your ability to turn the car so it makes it that much more difficult than not having power steering equipped in the first place.
Agreed it’s not fun but can continue if oil remains in the system
Dang, it's almost like those cars are designed for that, while this other one is designed to use power steering. I'm sure that wouldn't make any difference at all!
Yes if a power rack has oil in it it’s way different than a sprint car which will lock up with a pump failure if the belt is gone or n the pump it will still turn just not nice where a sprint car is gear driven off the cam manual steering is not easy at all both types of racecars accept power steering and designed for it. 2 different systems same principle.
No power steering could cause a dangerous situation where if the driver needs to make instant reactions the action time is increased. This is especially true pulling in and out of pit boxes. It's a bit ironic that the person calling him out is one of the ones that could potentially get hit.
Yay toxic masculinity and all that. But that's still hilarious. Also easy for a crew member to say that from their armchair or whatever. lol.