Comments on NASCAR press conference

[Lawrence C Leung]

I forgot, AWD was banned from Indy in the sixties when the turbine AWD
car (was it Gratinelli's STP Special? I wasn't coherent at that age to
notice) dominated that event, too. Car failed from some stupid bolt. AWD
banned in subsequent years. 

LL - NY

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:51:34 -0800 "John Larson" <jdlarson at ix.netcom.com>
writes:
>Nobody runs AWD. Also hmmm......Pretty true. Audi was so fast that 
>restricting the intake area and adding weight couldn't stop'em, The 
>Ford contingent (Jack Roush) pitched such a hissy they were banned 
>from competition. I believe the BTCC banned them some years later. 
>Same reason, AFIK. If the technology produces winners, why don't the 
>resultant losers adopt the technology instead of whining until it's 
>banned?