AWD in racing

[Lawrence C Leung]

I know, (re: Audi) but they had the resources of VAG (the largest
European auto mfg) to back them, so things like team organization,
testing, communications, etc, could be gotten on a professional basis.
Saleen and Panoz, though not poor people (I think I could get by on their
change) don't really have the resources of a Multi-Million dollar company
like VAG, or FoMoCo, for that matter. Remember, Ford may well have won
LeMans with $$$$$$$$$, not just a good car. They needed a good car to
start with, to be sure, but a successful race team, at this level needs
everything else that $$$ bring. This, of course, becomes greatly
exaggerated in F1!

LL - NY

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:43:53 -0800 "John Larson" <jdlarson at ix.netcom.com>
writes:
>Saleen? Panoz? Like Jack Roush, Saleen probably has a set of keys to 
>Fomoco's parts and engineering departments. Panoz ain't hurtin' for 
>money either. Don't let that image of privateer fool you, they're not 
>exactly the little guys struggling to run with the big dogs. When Audi 
>was running the 200s and the 90s, they were running SEDANS, not NASCAR 
>style tube frames with body panels hung on them. The 200s were 
>actually pulled off the production line and turned into race cars. Not 
>so the competition. John