Comments on NASCAR press conference

[Lawrence C Leung]

Aha, I knew someone would know. Even though they may have "banned" the
turbine, I think the rules also directly ban "the driving of four
wheels", which means that if you wanted to try it, you could enter with
FWD (and be throughly beat exiting the first corner!). 

LL - NY

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:36:06 EST JanDebL at aol.com writes:
>If I remember correctly it was 1967 and it was a wheel bearing that 
>failed.  
>The reason they gave for banning the car at that time, was the turbine 
>engine 
>not the AWD.  But the powers in control placed a broad stroke ban on 
>anything 
>that was better than what the good old boys were winning with before 
>the new 
>technology arrived.  
>American auto racing history repeats itself.
>Jan Lahtonen