posted December 09, 2006 09:08 PM
Edited By: fish_antlers on 11 Dec 2006 07:30
Ricky Carmichael dominates at the Amp'd Mobile World Supercross in Vancouver, BC by PK
The passion of the participants was not diminished by the less than amazing turn out. By the sound of the devoted fans who did come out to Vancouver's B.C. Place Stadium , you would have never guessed that the place was half empty. Very stark contrast to the standing room only crowds the Supercross draws Stateside.
James "Bubba" Stewart had been limping around during practice earlier in the day. The start of the Supercross race saw Stewart #7 Kawasaki take the lead, followed by #26 Byrne on Suzuki, Carmichael #4 Suzuki, in fourth Ferry #15 riding for Kawasaki and in fifth Reed #22 Yahama. It only took 3 laps to sort out the leaders as we watched Stewart keep the number 1 spot followed by Carmichael and Reed.
Carmichael and Stewart both battled traffic but Stewart was able to hold the first place spot until the 16th lap, where Carmichael passed Stewart to a burst of cheers from the crowd. Carmichael took the lead with Stewart behind him. Stewart in second was still captivating to watch as he rode out the last few laps. Carmichael had the people in the stands on their feet as they watched him take the checkered flag. Reed took the 3rd place finish without challenging the top two spots, but keeping the fans happy as they cheered for him as he took the podium in the winner's circle.
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The first race Lites heat 1 was won by #55 Ryan Sipes and the Second Interval of the Lites Race was won by #577 Davalos.
The Lites Last Chance Qualifier was taken by #33 Beaton.
The Last Chance Qualifier was close race for second when #53 Tyler Evens and challenger #168 collided and instead of untangling their bikes took to trying to settle the score by throwing punches. # 77 Dehaan kept his first place lead. Thomas #31 and Marsack # 79 were able to ride by the scrapping duo and take their places at the finish.
#55 Sipes cruised through to take the first place Lites finish wth #62 Dungy taking second. The real action to watch was between #168 Osborne and #577 Davalos who had been in second out of the gate was now battling Osborne the 3rd place finish, both riders well out of the reach of the Flying Sipes.
posted December 09, 2006 11:47 PM
wonder how much extra power the bikes make in the high pressure environment? (BC Place is pressurised to hold up the roof)
posted December 10, 2006 12:29 PM
hmmmm.....good........... PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!! Real nice...............who took those?
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posted December 10, 2006 02:04 PM
Well good job fish..............they really capture the mood................next best thing to being there. ____________
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quote:wonder how much extra power the bikes make in the high pressure environment? (BC Place is pressurised to hold up the roof)
If the extra pressure was only felt at the engine intake, it might make a difference - like increase engine power. Unfortunately, the pressure is also felt at the exhaust, so my guess is it's a wash.
Kinda like pointing your air compressor (or supercharger/turbocharger) into your intake inlet and exhaust outlet at the same time... it ain't gonna help much. ____________
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posted December 10, 2006 11:43 PM
afraid i think u'r wrong there zermatt, otherwise why would any IC engine make more power at sea level than hig altitude?
posted December 11, 2006 12:30 PM
I imagine that the main reason that nobody ever talks about the performance gains of internal combustion engines while operating inside of a pressurized fabric-roofed sports arena (like BC Place or any other similar arena), is because it only takes about .03 psi to keep the roof up there in the first place.
Maybe someone could talk them into pressurizing it with pure oxygen and do some IC engine tests in there... do we have any volunteers for that little exercise?
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posted December 11, 2006 12:32 PM
If the pressure is higher, so is the DENSITY. A more DENSE charge means that you are packing MORE air and fuel into the cylinder, hence MORE POWER.
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posted December 11, 2006 01:17 PM
quote:Maybe someone could talk them into pressurizing it with pure oxygen and do some IC engine tests in there... do we have any volunteers for that little exercise?
that kind of aptmosphere would create hazardous conditions: the first being that oxygen is flamable and secondly that we can not safely breathe pure oxygen. would be nice to see what kind of fireball could be created out of a stadium. if everyone was not immediately incinerated, then their hearts would slowly beat to a stop from the pure o2. look it up on wikipedia or something, no time to go into details. there are also toxic derivatives formed from a lot of "free" oxygen floating about. learned all about it in bio and chem classes :P
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posted December 11, 2006 01:53 PM
Edited By: zerMATT on 11 Dec 2006 13:54
Fortunately, oxygen is only an accelerant, it will only enhance a fire, not actually burn itself. If you pressurized a building with pure oxygen, then lit a fire, it simply burn *really* well... the building would not blow up.
quote:If the pressure is higher, so is the DENSITY. A more DENSE charge means that you are packing MORE air and fuel into the cylinder, hence MORE POWER.
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posted December 11, 2006 02:00 PM
what you say is true, but in the presense of other incinerates it would create very volatile conditions. even says so on the canisters, so old folks with o2 tanks shouldnt smoke near it. speaking of which, ever had an o2 mask hooked up to you in the hospital or in an ambulance? slows your heart rate down, and if inhaled long enough your heart will cease beating. i hope you dont think that the air we breathe is pure o2... oxygen is not a fuel so it is not considered "FLAMMABLE", but the term oxidize comes to mind- which is the scientific word for BURN! o2 in pure(r) form is hazardous. scientists thought that when they detonated the first atomic bomb that it would generate enough heat to actually ignite aptmosphere- needless to say, it didnt. too bad.
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posted December 11, 2006 03:55 PM
Edited By: zerMATT on 11 Dec 2006 15:56
quote:speaking of which, ever had an o2 mask hooked up to you in the hospital or in an ambulance?
Yup, I've played with oxygen and flames first-hand in EMT training. It's quite fun, actually. Take a bottle of O2, hook up a little plastic line, light the end of that line with a lighter (it will burn), then slowly turn on the O2 (I say slowly because if you turn it on fast, it will actually blow the flame out). What you get is a very intense little burn... blue and brisk... no explosions.
Sure, a pure O2 environment can be dangerous, but it won't kill someone. I'm not sure where you got that from. Ever heard of NASA's Apollo 1 accident? It used to be common procedure to fill crew capsules with pure oxygen, they also used to train astronauts in pure oxygen environments before the Apollo fire.
Oh, and the fire happened not because oxygen burns, but because everything else burns more readily *if* ignited in a pure oxygen environment... because oxygen is an accelerant.
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posted December 09, 2006 09:08 PM
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Real nice...............who took those?
