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Old 12-19-2006, 12:59 PM
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As for the no-reverse idea, it was interesting, at first everyone kindof kept their distance from each other afraid to end up stuck, but eventually the gaps closed up again and I think now the racing is just as close as before but cleaner, and therefore more realistic looking, everyone was forced to learn how to be aggressive without going overboard. Makes for better videos. In the vids posted so far though everybody has reverse.

Things are always in progress, the track, the cars, things like the no brakes idea, the racing format, and the cam mounting all gets improved little by little and the videos posted so far are from our earliest recordings, so that is why you see Dave's car with no body.

We have more than 20 hours of footage so far, and the vids posted so far are probably less than 1% of that. The on-car stuff never ceases to be interesting, hilarious, and original.

One of the best improvements we made to the track is replaced those padded barriers on the insides of some turns with wedge ramps. So if someone accidently cuts the turn, instead of just coming to a stop and everyone piling up behind them, their line is disrupted, or they get ejected into the air and sometimes flipped over, all depending on how badly they missed the mark. You can sortof see the ramps I'm talking about in this post:
http://www.one18th.com/GetGallery12396.htm

Those ramps make for better racing and wild accidents including the cam car itself rolling over.

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