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Howard Jones · 12-21-06, 01:34 AM

My favorite 3 cars of all time are the M8F, GT40 mk1, Lotus 49. With the Hall/Rutherford pennzoil Indy-car from 1981? a close 4th and the lotus 79 right there also. I would think however that if rules in these 3 categories were in place today then all three resulting cars would be undriveable.

M8F....no limmit on displacement of method of boost. Enough said... But I am sure Jim could get 2500 hp from a 427 on 2.5 bar. AND we haven't even begun to talk about fuel. The rocket crap they used to use in F1 just a few years ago was worth 200HP over regular race gas. If you breathed it you died.

GT40... again no engine displacement limmit and nearly no areo limits. 275mph down the Mulsane....300???? Turbine engine @ 3000hp?

F1.....Jeese can you imagine 3000hp, 20000lbs of down-force...there's no limmit really. They had 3000lb springs on EACH corner 20 years ago because the cars had so much down-force then.

And to carry on the thought... Indy..300MPH laps? Hell the record is 237ish and that was with about 1000HP and at the very beginning of the development of ground effects. Today....nobody could drive the cars.

Run what you brung? How about a set of rules drawn up to spec a M8F..... Now we are talking. For that matter how about F1 cars specked to a Lotus 49? Then we would find out who can drive.

12-21-06, 01:34 AM	#12 (permalink)
Howard Jones 10 tenths Join Date: Jun 2002 GT40: San Francisco Bay Area California USA Posts: 1,884 Rep Power: 25	Re: Chaparral My favorite 3 cars of all time are the M8F, GT40 mk1, Lotus 49. With the Hall/Rutherford pennzoil Indy-car from 1981? a close 4th and the lotus 79 right there also. I would think however that if rules in these 3 categories were in place today then all three resulting cars would be undriveable. M8F....no limmit on displacement of method of boost. Enough said... But I am sure Jim could get 2500 hp from a 427 on 2.5 bar. AND we haven't even begun to talk about fuel. The rocket crap they used to use in F1 just a few years ago was worth 200HP over regular race gas. If you breathed it you died. GT40... again no engine displacement limmit and nearly no areo limits. 275mph down the Mulsane....300???? Turbine engine @ 3000hp? F1.....Jeese can you imagine 3000hp, 20000lbs of down-force...there's no limmit really. They had 3000lb springs on EACH corner 20 years ago because the cars had so much down-force then. And to carry on the thought... Indy..300MPH laps? Hell the record is 237ish and that was with about 1000HP and at the very beginning of the development of ground effects. Today....nobody could drive the cars. Run what you brung? How about a set of rules drawn up to spec a M8F..... Now we are talking. For that matter how about F1 cars specked to a Lotus 49? Then we would find out who can drive.