slowguy wrote:
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An Indy car is not made for transportation. A NASCAR car is not made for transportation. Rally car, drag racer, demolition derby, show car, restored classic car, etc. are not made for transportation. If one were to say "all cars are made for transportation," one would be wrong.Sure they are. They're made for transporting a driver around a race track. They are further designed to do so at as fast a speed as possible. They replaced the previous object used to transport racers around track,...the horse. And the horse replaced transporting yourself by foot. Etc.
Now there are certainly some cars that aren't designed to actually transport anyone, because they're made as showpieces without functioning motors or suspensions, or whatever. It's never wise to declaratively state that 100% of anything meets a particular narrow definition, because there is almost always an exception.
Of course, that's not what we're really dealing with in this thread.
No, they are not. Teams are permitted to switch drivers during races. The purpose is to move the vehicle around the track at a high rate of speed, not to transport the driver or anything else. That may be done by remote control some day.
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