Maybe so, but... At a CSRG meet at Sears a while back, there was an
incredible duel between a UOP Shadow, and a McLaren. I think they both
had 8.1 liter engines. They were wheel to wheel the whole way around
the track. The Earth definitely shook whan they roared past. I think
everybody else in that run group was trying desperately to stay out of
the way of this duel. At one point the driver of the Shadow messed up
downshifting to 1st for the hairpin at 11. He hit the engine kill
switch instead! The McLaren roared off, but I think he slacked off to
let the Shadow catch up so they could continue dicing. They were back
together on the next lap.
>.... There will never again be such a sound as the rolling grid of the
>early '70s can-am (with those Traco chevys and flat twelves howling), as
>it swept around corner 14 and up the hill to the green flag. Even the
>vintage guys don't quite replicate it now... as no one today is
>inclined to drive ten tenths (and understandably so) like the Hulmes,
>Mclarens, Revsons, Donahues, Halls and Sifferts that originally drove
>these monsters flat out...
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