RE: more torsens in racing audis

[glen powell <gpowell@acacianet.com>]

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>ok, 2 different magazines published 5 years apart, describing 2 totally
>different racing quattros participating in two totally different racing
>series with different rules, both saying that torsen is used as the center
>diff some of the time or all of the time. 

>are we to still believe the claim that audi "never ever used the
>torsen (as center diff) for their racing cars"?

Yes. Could very well be pure Audi marketing BS so that it may appear
to the casual observer that Audi was/may have been using the same
technology on the race cars as on the street cars. Cynical? Yes....
Win on Sunday sell on Monday marketing is a known fact.....

>i think that claim has been successfuly debunked... and i have not
>even gone to my autosport archives yet.... (i think that i will find
>that audi has used torsen in their street racers from day 1)

I would say no, definitely not debunked. Only "I seen it" personal BTDT
would debunk this IMFO.

>unless of course all the magazines are wrong....  :)

Would not be the first time.....

-glen