RE: Porsche pulls out of Le Mans

[Eaton Dave <dave.eaton@minedu.govt.nz>]

yes, porker won le mans when the toyota blew it's gearbox with a hour or so
to go.  the m-b boys didn't last 4 hours...

however, m-b has won *every* fia gt race this year, and it's been 2 years
since porsche has won an fia gt race.

bearing in mind that this years gt racer was basically a clean sheet design
(albeit based on last years less than successful racer), and it's clearly
time to get back to the design office.

at least le mans has prevented this 50th anniversary for porsche from being
a disaster.

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q

	-----Original Message-----
	Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:34:10 -0800
	From: Greg Johnson <gregsj@iea.com>
	Subject: Porsche pulls out of Le Mans

	> Eaton Dave wrote

	> basically porsche have had their arse kicked by m-b (who hasn't?)
and have
	> pulled out to try and do it right in 2000 with a new car (most
likely a
	> sports prototype).

	Say what?!? Porsche just won LeMans (again) Porsche-Audi-VW -- maybe
Porsche is
	letting cousin Audi have some lime light. I figure if Porsche
doesn't show up next
	year, that's one less competitor for Audi to worry about.

	GregJ