| Paul,
No doubt Robin was passing some cars especially when he fell off in practice and broke his rear suspension. Thankfully my chief engineer, Nick Dames, was able to reweld it up for him to race again before he ran a wheel bearing i believe !!
Anyway, a video has no bearing at all on what i said. The two types of car are TOTALLY different in concept, design and driving characteristics and the 40 is, as i said,is sedate and like a comfortable sofa compared to the 917.
You will always feel safe and protected in a 40 because of its road orientated design of the sixties, whereas the 917 was built with a different design and strategy some years later.
So instead of coming out with silly challenges and swipes i suggest that you drive a 917 derivative in anger on the track and then eat your words.
Spa was interesting and an eye opener ..... the 917 had never raced before, let alone at Spa. It was fresh out of build, unsorted,stuck in fourth gear for both practices and the race and still managed to be 17th on the grid out of 78 cars. Willy Kausen said that i was mad to take it out for its first shakedown at Spa and that it would take months of testing to get it set up right, just as it had done with the originals. Well he was correct and it is coming together now.
As a matter of interest Paul, how many years has the yellow peril been running .......... !!!!!!!!!!!!
Graham. |