Picture of the Day, 25 March 2024

cmakin · 3/25/24, 9:38 AM

Tommy Malcolm at the Perris Auto Speedway on 10 November 2016. Today's photo can be purchased here: https://manvelmotorsports.smugmug.co...10/i-QCP3qZ8/A

DSC_2216 by Carey Akin, on Flickr

kb78 · 3/25/24, 2:38 PM

I think Tommy has a great nickname as it seems to roll off of the tongue- Tommy "Thunder" Malcolm.
Also, I am not a sprint car mechanic but I see he has the stacked torsion tubes on the front of his car, I have seen these before but the guys did not use the lower tube. What is the theory behind it?

TQ29m · 3/25/24, 2:50 PM

Kinda looks like a Drinan dry bar, on my cell phone?

Frank Reiner · 3/25/24, 4:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kb78

I think Tommy has a great nickname as it seems to roll off of the tongue- Tommy "Thunder" Malcolm.
Also, I am not a sprint car mechanic but I see he has the stacked torsion tubes on the front of his car, I have seen these before but the guys did not use the lower tube. What is the theory behind it?

The bar in the lower tube is an anti-roll bar, aka "sway bar".

3/25/24, 2:50 PM	#3
TQ29m Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 6,212	Kinda looks like a Drinan dry bar, on my cell phone? __________________ "Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I! _________________________________________________ Last edited by TQ29m; 3/25/24 at 2:52 PM.

3/25/24, 2:38 PM	#2 Re: Picture of the Day, 25 March 2024
kb78 Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 215	I think Tommy has a great nickname as it seems to roll off of the tongue- Tommy "Thunder" Malcolm. Also, I am not a sprint car mechanic but I see he has the stacked torsion tubes on the front of his car, I have seen these before but the guys did not use the lower tube. What is the theory behind it?