[urq] Many questions...

[Louis-Alain Richard]

So, there we go. Coupes and 5ktq were indeed raced in the USA, so we'll have
to prove our point if we want to enter one in Vintage racing.
As always with Audi, it's possible but it will be a bit more difficult than
with Porsche or BMW ! 

I'm sure a Coupe would be quick among its class (with either a GTI 4 pot or
even the 5-pot), but my heart is with the 5ktq. During the whole weekend,
and we saw maybe 400 racecars, I counted turbo engine on one hand : one
962C, one Lotus Esprit, three 930s. Imagine the sound and flames of a nicely
prepped, 8000 rpm, 5 cylinder turbo car at the end of the looooong straight.
That car would be a crowd favorite, I'm sure. And a mechanics nightmare
too... 


Louis-Alain



Robert A Dupree wrote :

Don't forget about the Brumos effort with the 5kTQ in the IMSA Firehawk
series.
I owned one of those cars after it became a forest-rally-racer - heck
somewhere I still have the slips from when Haywood drove it on some test
laps...

Too bad a tree ate that car.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of Brett Dikeman
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:10 PM
> To: LL - NY
> Cc: urq at audifans.com; quattro at audifans.com; info at dynodoc.ca
> Subject: Re: [urq] Many questions...
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Only problem is that a 5kT was unlikely to have ever been campaigned
> in the
> > US for road racing, and that is one of the prerequisites for SVRA and
> VSCCA
> > events.
> 
> SVRA doesn't list Audi on their make&model regulations page.  VSCCA is
> only open to cars made through the end of 1959.  So, it's moot for
> either organization.
> 
> As for "never been campaigned", Trans-Am doesn't count?
> 
> Brett