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| 5.16.05
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 Anyhow,
so what is it? Well, first things first, Jon Grams was the
only person to guess right. Kudos to Jon! He fixated on the
cockpit shape and that was really the only visual clue as the car that
ended up on the track looks little like what you see here...except for
the cockpit. So what is it? It is the Brun C91. The C91
raced unsucessfully during the 1991 3.5 Liter Sports Car Championship and
was powered by a 3.5 liter Judd V10. |
| 5.13.05
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 >>Note
the very rudimentary bi-plane rear wing. It is easy to overlook the
bottom element as it is about at rear wheel centerline height with the
upper elements being about where you'd expect it to be on a conventional
car. |
| 5.6.05
>>We've received multiple emails about the Porsche LMP2/Penske Racing announcement. Yes, we're fully aware of the program. But at this time there just is a paucity of technical details (though an avalanche of unbridled speculation--"brutally fast...and quite a different approach body wise from the norm", as an example) and therefore very little for us to comment on at this time that hasn't been disseminated from the press release on other websites. |
 >>The
Walter Mitty Historics were held last weekend at Road Atlanta. We
were attending courtesy of Brian DeVries and Marc Noordeloos of Jade Pig
Racing. Jade Pig brought their Intrepid GTP (chassis #001).
They left Intrepid 003 at home (and their Nissan NPT-90...and their Porsche
962). |
 Suffice
to say, we're working on an article about the Intrepid GTP. |
 The
last Kudzu built, chassis DLY 010. Nearly 1/3 of the world's Mazda
4-rotor supply was circulating at this year's Mitty in the backs of Kudzu
chassis' DLM-4 009 and the above. |
 This
is the last R&S MkIII chassis ever built. Photographed here is
chassis 021 (MkIII Series 2). 021 was sold as a skinned tub to Autoexe
who purchased it to replaced their damaged chassis 019. From what
I can tell, 021 shares bits and pieces from what was left of 019 (the 1999
Le Mans car) so technically this car has Le Mans heritage.
Technically in the most oblique sense. The Autoexe cars were heavily
modified over their R&S origins and actually raced not as R&Ss
but as Autoexes. |
 The
1988 Le Mans IMSA class winner. |
 Archie
Urciuoli's Porsche 956. |
>>I
received
an email this morning from Peter Kitchak of Toad Hall Racing saying that
he has just purchased the Allard J2X and takes delivery of it tomorrow.
This is great news for the historic Group C and GTP scene! Says Peter,
"Our plan is to finish the car and race it in Group C Historic events.
We expect to test it in mid June." He follows up to say that tenatively
the car will debut at Mount Tremblant in July followed a week later at
the Brian Redman vintage event at Road America.
>>Ok,
so this was tougher than it looked. Though I was surprised at how
far astray some went...new Riley? New Porsche LMP2? You were
on the right track if you narrowed down the time frame to late 80s (very
late) to early 90s. The big giveaway (at least to time frame) was
the twin-tier rear wing as those didn't come on scene till '91. And
that should have been a clue that is wasn't a current regulation
car (as twin-tier wings would be very illegal). If anything, clearly
this car doesn't have the new mandated floor spec that I've been hammering
on about for now 2+ year!