http://www.racintoday.com/archives/8344 Go With The Pros Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:34:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/8344/comment-page-1#comment-6040 Freshrubber Blog » Blog Archive » Jeff Gordon wants better in-car speed-monitoring Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:33:21 +0000 http://www.racintoday.com/?p=8344#comment-6040 [...] Jeff Gordon, when asked why better in-car speed-monitoring devices have not been installed: “That’s a great question. I think it’s a little easier than that, even. In every other form of motorsports you come to pit road and you hit a button and it regulates the rpm and the mph and you just sit there at that rpm. And I don’t understand why we don’t have that, with all the technology that we have at our fingertips. I think the concern is it’s a wheel speed sensor and then you get into traction control and some of that. So that’s probably the downside to it. But we’ve gotten our tachs a lot better now and we’re able to read it pretty close.” — Racin’ Today [...] [...] Jeff Gordon, when asked why better in-car speed-monitoring devices have not been installed: “That’s a great question. I think it’s a little easier than that, even. In every other form of motorsports you come to pit road and you hit a button and it regulates the rpm and the mph and you just sit there at that rpm. And I don’t understand why we don’t have that, with all the technology that we have at our fingertips. I think the concern is it’s a wheel speed sensor and then you get into traction control and some of that. So that’s probably the downside to it. But we’ve gotten our tachs a lot better now and we’re able to read it pretty close.” — Racin’ Today [...]

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