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This Sunday after Church, I was watching a Grand Prix race at a friends house. It was durring one of the pit stops that my friend noticed that the pit team wasnt using a car jack. After I watched a pit stop in progress more slowly, I too saw this.
What lifted the car off the ground for the tire change?
Is this used in F1?
Does anyone have more info on this??
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
And all things that were created were created through Him, and anything that was not created, has not been created. John 1:1-3
Williams for example uses pneumatic operated jack. The car isn't lifted by mechanics physical strength and that saves time. Mechanics just press the button/valve and the air from the container on mechanic's back reaches the jack trough pipe.
There are series where cars have on board pneumatic jacks (car lifts itself when the pipe from compressed air container is plugged in). Those cars usualy have four of such jacks/pneumatic lifters on four sides of the floor.
I believe that the race mentioned was the CART Grand Prix of Denver. In that series, the cars have three built in air jacks, which extend when an air line is attached to the car. I believe that these days, the air line is plugged into the rear, behind the rear wing. Roger Penske was responsible for the initial introduction, one of his many, many "unfair advantages" he enjoyed because of superior preparation and forward thinking.
The term "Grand Prix" dates back to the very early days of racing, when each (mainly European) nation had one grand race, the ultimate race for that nation, each year. It can still be seen practiced in Formula One, where each nation is allowed just one FIA sanctioned race in that category. Of course, some nations manage to circumvent this by having a second race, named after another nation. Does San Marino mean anything to us? I am sure most know the meaning. or the fact Germany has a second race, called the "European Grand Prix".
Thus the term, "Grand Prix" is borrowed by other racing series and nations in a feeble attempt to capitalize on a very long and glorious history they had nothing to do with. But this crap goes on everywhere, every IRL race is an "Indy" race, and there's a car out there with the initials "GTO". I wonder how many Pontiac owners even know that it stands for 'Gran Turismo Omologato.
To the enlightend and purists, we know what's real, and what's fake, and borrowed.
