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A manufacturer has been watching its engine program hit the wall lately. If the Orville Redenbacher sponsorship doesn’t work out, they’ll need to look for a change in the focus, management, and perhaps even the participants. Orville likes the popping sound and white smoke, but it isn’t a very good image for a race engine (ask the James Bond car guys). Murphy’s been told that whatever else they do, a look at the in-house ten-cent engine control system should be the first order of business. (more…)
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138. The petite field. White smoke “getting old?” The big split. Anemic television.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009103. le meilleur des mondes possibles – Gottfried Leibniz, 1710
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Murphy’s projections of the 2009 American Le Mans Series grid have been among the most pessimistic in this silly season. Braselton, and a few scribes close to the Broadway Avenue palace, have insisted all along that there will be “mid twenties” on the grid at every stop, and sometimes more. One IMSA insider said the series expected an “average grid of 30 entries.” At the other end of the range, the Bear quoted one participant who put the likely full-season entries at 18.
Murphy doesn’t want to always play the Grinch, so he dug around a bit to try to find those entries. (more…)