[Fot] Another Kastner car

[Bob Bownes -Seiri]

If only it had a Rover V8!

> On Oct 7, 2021, at 16:27, Mike Harmuth via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> I never knew that Kas had an F5000 car.
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> mike h
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> From this week's Haggerty newsletter
> 10 pedigreed open-wheel racers at American Speed Festival 2021
> 1971 Lola T192
> Cameron Neveu
> Ego and racing are inextricably linked—and they don’t honor the divides of racing series and regulatory bodies, either. Case in point: the Questor Grand Prix held at Ontario Speedway in California, a shoot-out of sorts between Formula 1 and Formula 5000 cars of the era. R.W. “Kas” Kastner—he of Team Nissan GTP fame—bought this Lola T192 from Chicago-area distributor Carl Hass, but before he managed to put an engine in the rolling chassis, Hass was back on the phone. Would Kastner loan Hass the car so that Al Unser could challenge the F5000 boys in California? On the condition that Hass supplied and installed the engine (and left it in the car when Unser was done with the race), Kastner said yes.
> Cameron Neveu
> Unser didn’t perform very well at Ontario Speedway, but the 1400-pound, monocoque racer and its Weber-crowned Chevy 305 have earned its current owner, Mead Korwin, plenty of on-track grins. Leaning back in a folding camping chair, wearing Columbia boots and a denim short-sleeve shirt, Korwin pronounces it: “Remarkably forgiving. It really is. It’s all torque… It kinda grunts its way out of the corner, you don’t really have to rev it.
> “Donohue called this model one of the best natural-handling race cars he ever drove.”
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> Copyright Haggerty Newsletter
> Author:
> Grace Houghton
> 06 October 2021
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