The old saying in racing....."Nothing beats cubic
dollars".....VW?Audi?...they even badged some of those monsters as Bently
for one season.

   I do hear Porsche is contemplating going back to Le Mans  I got to watch
a historic sports car event at a PCA race at Laguna Seca....Can-Am cars
including some of the Gulf  917 P-cars, those Nissan turbo monsters that
Paul Neuman drove, a Chapparal Chevy...(with a Sachs engine driving a huge
central mounted fan to 'suck' the chassis down for traction and two giant
wings...)

   Pretty cool stuff..Besides NASCAR, most racing does develop vehicle
technology.  NASCAR, on the other hand...they still have carburators
mandated....yet they still get those giant racecars going over 200mph on the
larger ovals...

  Fun stuff...It is my understanding that one of my neighbors is currently
driving a Doka that was originally used as a chase truck on the Dakar
race....
  Don Hanson

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:

> VW is already in Le Mans beating everybody with wearing a 4-ring outfit.
>
>
> BenT
>
> sent from my electronic leash
>
> On Aug 5, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> >  I'd rather see VW get involved in Endurance racing, like 24hrs  of Le
> > Mans....I think the technology in that race series actually has a little
> > more to cross over to street vehicle technology...Pretty incredible how
> fast
> > they make those prototypes lap around the clock..
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> No Vanagon content at all.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't! Could be they will come up with an
> >> engine
> >> that fits the formula AND mates to a vanagon bellhousing. It's too early
> to
> >> tell about that conversion. Looking forward to a KERS system on my
> Vanagon,
> >> too.
> >>
> >> Optimistically,
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
>