Sounds kinda familiar

And a notably crappy one too.

"Carl Sundquist" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In an article about NASCAR in the current issue of The Week magazine, they
write, "Because NASCAR requires the stock cars to conform to rigorous
regulations, all the machines are pretty much equal. This means each race

is

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a test of the driver, pit crew, and strategy. A key factor in every race

is

Quoted message said:

"drafting," the art of using cars in front of you to break the wind
resistance, so you can go faster on less fuel. (It's one reason cars

usually

Quoted message said:

race around the track in a line, each traveling in the slipstream of the
preceding cars.) To take advantage of drafting, a driver will often form
temporary partnerships with another driver behind him, an arrangement
usually worked out over the radio in negotiations between drivers'

spotters.

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Of course, every driver is competing against every other, so a partnership
may last only a lap or two, even if the drivers are close friends. But

it's

Quoted message said:

this constantly shifting balance between cooperation and competition that
makes the sport so unpredictable and so interesting to its fans."

"Carl Sundquist" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

In an article about NASCAR in the current issue of The Week magazine, they
write, "Because NASCAR requires the stock cars to conform to rigorous
regulations, all the machines are pretty much equal. This means each race

is

Quoted message said:

a test of the driver, pit crew, and strategy. A key factor in every race

is

Quoted message said:

"drafting," the art of using cars in front of you to break the wind
resistance, so you can go faster on less fuel. (It's one reason cars

usually

Quoted message said:

race around the track in a line, each traveling in the slipstream of the
preceding cars.) To take advantage of drafting, a driver will often form
temporary partnerships with another driver behind him, an arrangement
usually worked out over the radio in negotiations between drivers'

spotters.

Quoted message said:

Of course, every driver is competing against every other, so a partnership
may last only a lap or two, even if the drivers are close friends. But

it's

Quoted message said:

this constantly shifting balance between cooperation and competition that
makes the sport so unpredictable and so interesting to its fans."

Yup - some interesting parallels. See also;
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_2/ronfeldt/index.html