AWD in racing

Lawrence C Leung l.leung at juno.com
Sat Feb 24 12:57:50 EST 2001


Them to. Holman and Moody until '66, then when Ford got "officially" out
of the series, John Wyer and Gulf Oil privateered and won again in '67
(and 68?) until the rules for cars over 5.0 liters took place, which gave
them too much of a handicap. Thus began the era of the endurance racing
Porsches (i.e. Ferrari never recovered).

LL - NY

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:39:22 -0800 Bob <mx at snet.net> writes:
>Yeah, but wasnt that under Holman and Moody?
>Bob
>
>TM wrote:
>
>>  Um- GT40?Taka
>>
>>      -----Original Message-----
>>      From: quattro-admin at audifans.com
>>      [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of
>>      JanDebL at aol.com
>>      Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 12:48 PM
>>      To: l.leung at juno.com; jdlarson at ix.netcom.com
>>      Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>>      Subject: Re: AWD in racing
>>
>>      Actually, Ford and their $$$$$$ couldn't win.  They needed
>>      the small guys
>>      like Carrol Shelby and John Wyer to put them in the winners
>>      circle.  I think
>>      the same is also true of VAG.  They needed Joest to win the
>>      big one.
>>      Jan Lahtonen
>>



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