10. Audi hasn’t done too badly with the idea, winning LeMans with depressing regularity over the past decade with diesel power.
9. Impressive torque out of a corner surprises other cars and makes their drivers weak.
8. Your pit stop strategy is based on the drivers’ ability to hold it in, not on needing to “fill it up”
7. “Burning coal” never looked so good!
6. Your race car has a bumper sticker that says “This car is a hybrid- it burns diesel and rubber!”
5. You only use ½ half of your tachometer, therefore saving even more energy!
4. You have more torques than any other car on track.
3. When you do pit for fuel, you don’t have to wait in line at the gas pump with the rest of the hoi polloi- diesel race cars have special pumps!
2. The hot chicks really dig diesel race cars because they don’t hurt their ears when they rev.
And the number 1 reason to race a diesel-powered car is…
1. You get to paint the car green!
Come out to VIR to see the Baja Designs-sponsored Superlite Nemesis and Superlite LMP at the 13-hour Charge of the Headlight Brigade. Racing starts at 9:00 sharp, so be early on Saturday!
9. Impressive torque out of a corner surprises other cars and makes their drivers weak.
8. Your pit stop strategy is based on the drivers’ ability to hold it in, not on needing to “fill it up”
7. “Burning coal” never looked so good!
6. Your race car has a bumper sticker that says “This car is a hybrid- it burns diesel and rubber!”
5. You only use ½ half of your tachometer, therefore saving even more energy!
4. You have more torques than any other car on track.
3. When you do pit for fuel, you don’t have to wait in line at the gas pump with the rest of the hoi polloi- diesel race cars have special pumps!
2. The hot chicks really dig diesel race cars because they don’t hurt their ears when they rev.
And the number 1 reason to race a diesel-powered car is…
1. You get to paint the car green!
Come out to VIR to see the Baja Designs-sponsored Superlite Nemesis and Superlite LMP at the 13-hour Charge of the Headlight Brigade. Racing starts at 9:00 sharp, so be early on Saturday!
