Abo

Norman Wells wrote:
> Abo wrote:
>> Norman Wells wrote:
>>> Abo wrote:
>>>> Norman Wells wrote:
>>>>> Abo wrote:
>>>>>> Peter Hill wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So so wrong. Motorsport quackery
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a tyre pressure thing. When you run for a few laps the tyre
>>>>>> pressure changes as the heat builds up. When you fill with air
>>>>>> this change can be unpredictable as the proportion of water
>>>>>> vapour in the air can vary. Filling with nitrogen mans you know
>>>>>> you have a dry gas inside your tyres and you can predict how the
>>>>>> tyre pressures are going to change as they heat up.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have seldom read a more unknowledgeable account than this. Water
>>>>> vapour has nothing whatever to do with tyre pressures, and nitrogen
>>>>> is just as likely to contain water vapour as air is anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry you clearly know more about oval racing than I do. Please
>>>> explain to me why 48 or so NASCAR teams go to the bother of
>>>> completely removing all the air from 2880 tyres and replacing it
>>>> with nitrogen if it has no benefit whatsoever on the tyre
>>>> pressure...
>>>
>>> Since it doesn't, I can't.
>>>
>>> Ask them.
>>
>> See that response below from Roger; it would appear that it does
>
> What response below what?

<sigh>

Look a bit further down the thread. Read the posts from Roger Thorpe.

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Abo