Launch control refers to an electronic device that is used to assist a Formula 1 driver in the very moment of the start of a race.In high-performance racing vehicles, the driver has a very small threshold when it comes to acceleration. High power delivered by the engine to the gearbox and driven wheels can not be easily managed even by the most experienced drivers.\n\nFacing this issue, and with the growing development of electronics during the 1980s, led to the introduction of this type of software.\nIn 1985, Renault's RE60 F1 car had a device that hosted a diskette which stored information inside and was unloaded at the pits, giving the engineers detailed data about the cars' behavior.\n\nLater on, telemetry allowed the data to be sent by a radio connection between the pits and the car. The increase of electronic-driven devices on the car allowed the engineers to modify the settings of certain parameters on the car while it was on the track, this being called bi-directional telemetry
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as far as i know, launch control is used during the start, or let's say, when the car starts from still.\n\nwhen the car steers, and when the driver accelerates, the wheels, especially the ones with the lower load on them (because of centrifugal force) starts skidding. traction control prevents this skid to maintain the handling of the car.\n\nthe basic difference between them is LC is used when the car is not moving and TC is used when the car is moving.
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The shape of the car is not the only factor in how fast it goes. However it is one of the most important factors in driving fast and doing it with some relative safety. The word you are looking for is aerodynamics. Aerodynamics is how well air moves over and around the car. Aerodynamics also holds the car to the ground creating what is called down force. Cars can be shaped to give more or less down force to any givin side of a car. The Saleen S7 is said to be able to be drive upside down at 160 mph and still have all 4 wheels on the ceiling.
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hi \nIn college labs what ever the techniques used for controlling the speed to control are the methods employed in indusrties also.but as for a glance they look other method in industries.\nmost common methods are-\n\ncontrol of terminal voltage\ncontrol of field current \netc.
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Why wouldn't you make an Tempo into a race car?...It's the perfect sleeper, and like it or not, I've seen quite a few made to race...\n\nDid you change the Onboard Diagnostic System?...Because it should be OBD-I...
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throw = the distance the gear lever moves inbetween gears, the short shifter reduces the gear change times slightly by reducing the distance you need to move the gear lever.\n\nWill improve acceleration, but all depends on how quickly the driver can press and release the clutch as well as changing gear
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What exactly is a sport?  To me, a sport is competition.  Nothing is more competitive than Nascar, especially when you factor in the setups of the cars, and the technology and research that goes into the "fine-tuning" of each component on the car.  What drivers have you been looking at exactly, when you say that they don't look athletic?  What exactly is your definition of athletic?  I can more than 20 of the regulars who are on a strict work-out program, several of which include running 5-10 miles per day.  Many of them are very intelligent.  Ryan Newman, for example, has a Masters degree in Aeronautical engineering from Purdue.  Although many of the drivers may not have graduated from a secondary institution, consider the hundreds of engineers that work the cars.  And you are calling Nascar drivers dumb?   As compared to what sport?  Baseball?  Football?  God forbid, the NBA, comprised of thugs?  To be competitive in NASCAR,  you have to have superb intelligence to setup the car for a specific track, and to make split second decisions on the track as well as in the pits concerning your race strategy.  Hundreds of a second are many times the difference between first and last.  What do you have to do in Football or basketball that requires intelligence?  Run fast or jump high?  Get 20 tattoos on your arms, grow an afro or braid your hair in cornrows while sporting a "grill" and belting out the latest 50 Cent rap?  I would bet $100 to a donut that the average IQ of a Nascar participants (when you factor in the drivers, crew chiefs, and team engineers) is double that of the average participant in any other of your major sports.   I think the thing that attracts me most to NASCAR is the fact that you have all 43 teams on the playing field competiting simultaneously.  When you run 200 MPH with someone to your left, right, behind, and in front of you only inches away, it is like a high speed game of chess.  And more importantly, in most cases, they are paid according to their performance.  And in my opinion, they aren't overpaid.
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Almost every Formula One driver started his career in kart racing, then progressed through the various formulae - Formula Ford, Formula Renault, Formula 2000, Formula Three, Formula 3000 (now known as GP2). \nSome, like Jacques Villeneuve haven taken a slightly different route (to F1). He attended the Jim Russell Formula Ford Racing School at Mont Tremblant, Quebec., in 1986 and the Spenard-David Formula 2000 Racing School at Shannonville, Ontario., in 1986. After that he raced in the Italian Formula Three series, the North American Formula Atlantic Series and the (now defunct)  CART series before moving back to Europe and to F1.\nF1 drivers need a Superlicense and to qualify for that, a driver usually has to prove his/her competence in a lower level of racing, but I often wonder how some drivers actually qualify for that license.\nBy the way,` I am rock' F2 disappeared at the end of the 1984 season and was replaced by Formula 3000, which became GP2 last year.
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It depends on whether your racing against anybody, after all racing is a sport.  Then there is drifting, which is basicly controling your car when over-steering or under-steering.  \nDrifting is considered a sport and if you went around a mountain curve with the snow all over the place it'd be drifting if you managed to turn your car sideways until you were straight again(Extreamly dangerous, do not attempt).  \n  Then again, the definition of sport is: to amuse oneself.  So whatever you do thats amusing yourself, its basicly a sport.  Whether it has spectators or not is another thing.
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The simple answer: Mechanically.\n\nDepending on the sport, and the timing requirements, all events were timed with the mechnical stop watch, or an instrument similar to the stop watch.  Either a live person actually started and stopped the timer. Or in some cases, they did have what could be considered a type of laser light mechanism that stopped the timer device.\n\nNot sure how much detail you want. But hope that helps.
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motorsport racing is much safer than most people realize.. the cars are all checked to ensure they meet all the required safety rules.. sit back and enjoy the race.. it is very addictive.. you may find yourself behind the wheel someday
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A "Holeshot" Win is when a driver is the 'quickest' off the line and getting to the Finish line first without 'redlighting' but not actually posting the 'quickest' time or fastest mph.  Thus theoretically, that person 'should' have Lost by taking longer to traverse the Drag Strip, but Won by getting to the Finish line first by leaving first.  Got it?  Tried to make it as simple as possible.
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For most operations, the telescope uses reaction wheels.  These are gyroscopes on motors.  If the telescope wants to pan in one direction, it speeds up a reaction wheel in the opposite direction, and conservation of angular momentum ensures that if the wheel spins faster counter-clockwise, the telescope spins faster clockwise to compensate.  Once the correct angle has been achieved, the reaction wheel is spun back to its normal speed, and the telescope stops panning.  This method is much more precise than rockets which would usually have to burn continuously to hold a stable attitude, polluting the vicinity with burned materials which can interfere with imaging or degrade the mirror by accumulating on it.\n\nOver time, external torques can pull the telescope out of alignment, requiring the reaction wheels to spin faster and faster to keep it steady.  Eventually they reach their maximum rotation rate, and something has to be done.  This is done by "reaction wheel desaturation".  Only at this point do the rockets on the telescope fire up and apply a torque which lets the reaction wheels be spun back down to their normal operating range.  The telescope can't do any science while the rockets are firing.\n\nThe pointing accuracy and stability of the telescope are controlled by locking onto guide stars.  It has specialized instruments that let it control its orientation by measuring the location of known bright stars.
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Mostly for easy acces in and out of the car, also the wheel is marked showing the center of the wheel to the steering colum.  If something should knock out the alinment the driver can compensate by removing the wheel and turn it left or right so the steering is center again.
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Formula 1 (Michael Schumacher etc.)\n\nEach Grand Prix is done over a race weekend, this year you can use however many sets of tyres you like, but one engine has to last you two weekends.  Penaltys are given for any blown engines etc.\n\nFriday is Practise\nSaturday is Qualifying\nSunday is the Race\n\nIn practise the cars can do as many laps as they like, with whatever fuel or tyres they like to get used to the track etc.\n\nQualifying rules seem to change each year, basically there is a time window on the Saturday for the cars to go out and put in the fastest lap they can.  The faster the lap the higher up the grid they go, ideally getting first place(Pole Position). \n\nOn the Sunday, after the warm-up lap (to get tyres and engines up to temperature) the race starts after all the red lights have lit up and gone out (there is no flag to start the race).  Cars can pit whenever they like, for tyres, fuel etc. The race is over when the total number of laps are completed by the lead car, this when the chequered flag is waved.\n\nRed flags on the track means stop the race (major accident)\nYellow flags mean caution / slow down (minor accident)\nBlack flags mean disqualification\nBlue flags mean a car that is lapping you needs to overtake.\n\nThis is basically it, but someone else can correct or add to this.
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I don't know for sure, but:\n\n1) These drivers get very hot and often dehydrated during these races. It's possible they just don't have to go.\n2) On the occasions that they DO have to go, my guess is they go in their jumpsuits.\n\nIf you contact NASCAR and get an answer to this question, let us know!
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Sticking by the rules you specified;\n\nConstruct an inclined channel (ramp) where the 1 kg (2 lbs)weight (hopefully a metal ball) falls and accelerated by gravity. place the car that will catch and hold the ball at the end of the ramp. The falling ball's inertia will propel the car almost equal to its speed and may reach more than 1 meter on a flat even surface, design the car with low center of gravity, with less than half the weight of the propellant ball (weight) as a consideration.\n\n************* \n\nAh, New data acquired --- resolution: same application of inertial force using a rigid pendulum.\n\nConstruct a pendulum with the required height putting the fulcrum point at 10 cm directly above the floor of the car, giving you a swing radius of 10 cm from top to bottom, use a cardboard/plastic tube (shute) to carry the pill bottle but loose enough to set it free after a sudden stop once it reaches the bottom where the position of the pill bottle is parallel with the floor of the car. This configuration may not give you as much distance relying on gravity alone but may be able to get 1 meter if conditions are favorable, pertaining to weight of car and means of motion (wheel and shaft should be well oiled for free-wheeling), relevant to weight of falling object, unless you are allowed to spring load the fulcrum. You can put the fulcrum as part of the car (but it will add more weight/ but you wont need the shute, all components will be integrated), or as a separate launcher (which you will need the shute). make sure the center of gravity on the car is low for stability. when integration of all component is involved make the wheel base equally wide as 10 cm. If just for the pill bottle, just narrow enough to carry the bottle.\n\nmy idea: http://server4.pictiger.com/img/124010/other/1-kg-inertia-car.jpg\n\nInnovation is part application and part logical creativity. Isn't science great!\n~meow
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Yes, and thats also why NASCAR banned the HEMI cars for racing. Neither Ford or GM can claim that.  Also Ford and GM were babys about it to complaining to NASCAR.