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Did I see the race live? No, but I was in the stands the weekend before for testing. The 209 didn't scream like the OHC motors. It had a roar, and the Penske cars just ran the others down in no time flat. This was racing as it was intended. The motors in the museum were on the cutting edge for their time. The support for the 209 was at the speed of sound. A time in history never to be repeated.

You 2 guys need to read Gary's book....he spent MORE time in the shop working on his cars than both of you put together. He was winning races way, way before he ever got involved in smuggling. I know, i watched him race and WIN for years long before all that crap he got involved in. The Batmobile was 100 percent legal. They flew a tech guy out to Kenny's shop and had him Measure anything he wanted. Kenny just built a better car within the rules. In fact the Hutter engine was DOWN a cylinder and he just drove it as hard as he had to .had that not happened he would of probablbly would of lapped the field. Gary was smart and did the work to build better cars. EVERYBODY has "cheated" at one time or another. Including me. Read Gary's book. You two might learn something.

Regarding the "batmobile," I believe the majority of credit for that car belongs with Kenny Weld, not Gary.

One of the most blatant (type 1) cheats was probably the Toyota Celica turbo in the early nineties.

Looking forward to Racing Sheets. We can compare notes with my travels doing industrial machinery repair in 48 different states over 25 years. Hint: there are A LOT of really bad hotels across the country.

Mark Martin gives Gary Balough credit for him stepping up his game, because he was so hard to beat.

I would bet there are some interesting Team Scandia and Level 5 stories as well......

Seeing who can come of with creative interpretations of the rules is part of the allure of racing to me. It's also why "Spec" anything and homologated classes don't do it for me. It's hard for most people to understand that concept because usually the guy with cubic dollars can come in and lay waste. However, sometimes you get the little guy who works his ass off and discovers the new thing first. As far as bad ideas with toxic substances, that's never really stopped racers until someone tells them not to do it. Leaded race gas, Toluene/other bad things in F1 fuel, beryllium valve guides/seats, washing nasty parts in solvent tanks with no gloves, etc. Just doing what you've got to do to make the number in the Win column go up.

I stayed for the whole thing! The story of the Daytona is the story of champions, not just of victory. Thank you so much

Can confirm: When Pro teams come slum it at club weekends for testing time, they have to drive the golf cart back to the grass paddock to borrow a welder. If any of these tales of magic and backyard engineering make you wish you could be a part of it, get involved with club racing. Ferrari won't be there, but it sure gives you that feeling where you haven't felt more alive. It's a lot of work, but way less work than being on the Pro side of things.

Great show. I had no idea that Brock faced so many headwinds. Excellent story telling, guys.

The story is just amazing. thank you guys for covering it. The whole era and everyone involved in it needs to be glorified.

I've heard/read this story a few times and love it every single time. Great job :)

Absolutely loved the retelling of this story. My favorite car of all time. I was at Road America for all the races of those days. Loved that the Cobras kicked the corvettes ass. I also love almost everything Peter Brock has done. By the way Ross’s Slot car was probably a Monogram car. I have one, along with a Cobra roadster. I race them every week at Road America North west, my track ( and my UA-cam channel). Loved the whole episode. Come race with me! Mike M.

I vote keep it up with the 2 hour episodes

Stayed the whole time. I've seen the Specter car, which i thin is the prototype, run at the Simeone Museum. It's a beast. Thanks!

Brilliant. One thing with this is creating the environment to be able to put this advice into action. Trust and clear agreement on what success looks like each event, each day and each session - when the temptation is alway to obsess over the stop watch and/or not "wasting" track time. Thanks for sharing guys

Hey, you guys don't need Sam. Cut him out and take all the money he makes on the podcast. 🙂 You could probably afford a corn dog at the track.

Wow ... some stuff to point out here 🙂: Wales and England are both part of Great Britain ... aero engines even back to the first world war were built using aluminium so were not that heavy for their displacement ... the Supermarine Spitfire and the P51 were both powered by 27 litre Rolls Royce Merlin engines the latter built under licence to Rolls Royce in the US ... and neither of those aircraft had to have huge wings or flipped over from the torque. My qualification aside from having a Welsh mam? My Grandfather worked for Supermarine who built the Spitfire 🙂

Can’t believe i just found this podcast. It is brilliant and Sam is an amazing host.

IMO this is why F1 was (mostly) always a superior product. Yes their budgets support that, but the creativity and straddling that line of the Regs vs. the rules and what actually ends up on the car, what the FIA allows (like DAS on the W11) when it's in clear violation of the rules, whereas this engine was more along the lines of what happened at Le Mans in the early 90s especially in the GT1 classes that beat the prototypes, due to the homologation rules being 'flexible' at a whim. This was just truly a case of someone reading between the lines and I understand organizers can't think of everything I always hated the phrase 'spirit of the regs' because well, it's racing and people are going to do anything to win, just like Roger and his teams did here. Saw a bit on this car (PC23) being restored in an issue of 'evo' magazine, and the UA-cam rabbit trail on the car and engine has been fascinating. Well done video, will be back for other episodes!

You don't need a massive wingspan to lift a 27l engine, nor would the aircraft go slow - the Spitfire had a 27l Merlin engine in it and a wingspan of 12.2m, and that thing went ~400mph at full chat.

IRL still exists. It is the legal entity

leave lots of money!

Our self proclaimed GOAT ran with Mr. Moretti against Mr Bentley in 94. Later worked with Mr. Braun in the Riley IRL car.

I fought video until it was mandatory because I didn't want another thing to manage on a race weekend and it was one of the dumbest things I ever did. It's one of the best tuning tools out there if you can get the driver in the shot because it lets you see why things happened and how the car changes over the course of the run. It also takes load off an overworked brain trying to remember too many things. Also, it's great for return trips to the same track. "OK, we won last time. Let's put the same setup on." Well, we won but the car was doing XYZ, let's do ABC for practice and see if it fixes and we can revert for qual if it's worse.

This is fantastic, just subscribed

Fantastic as always, these conversations are great

Great episode, Thanks

Love these shows. Thanks!

44 CFD servers for a D Spec racer??

Did you mention the Lauren Hill tunnel that doesn't exist, and it is not used to test Ganassi cars

Comedy is timing, and Mr Smith is a great storyteller

So glad you guys brought this topic into discussion. The topic of tires and performance is one of my most favorite curiosities!!!

Episode suggestion: Why engineers and designers build their own prototypes in after work hours

I love the shows and everything you guys are doing, but I can’t help but feel like your video title and thumbnail to this video is a bit slanderous to the Swiift .010. Clickbait to get people in?! “Surprise the worst race car is actually a crapwagon!” (And do I owe PT a royalty for that?) Kidding aside, keep up the good work and thank you!

A very different situation but with similar problems from long ago. In the 1960's (I think) Shelby took his sports car guys to Indy for the 500. They had a great driver (Revson, maybe) but just couldn't get up to speed at all. Later, the Champion Spark Plug guy stopped by and suggested a bunch of changes they should make. One of the veterans at the track, said the Champion guy really knew his stuff. The team had tried everything they could think of so they tried the spark plug guy's set-up ideas and picked a lot of speed. The teams problem wasn't aero, it was the set-up. They had championship-winning mechanics and a fine driver. Turns out road racing and oval track racing are just two radically different animals. Borrowing from Broadway; "Ya gotta know the territory."

And in the end ... The 800-pound gorilla of CART, Roger Penske, bought up the IRL and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But rather than go back to the days of multiple car types competing, he's retained the IRL One-Design concept. So Indycar has become the automotive equivalent of sailboat one-class racing and Dallara's are the racecar version of the Catalina 22. What a shame.

To answer the question: when the car produces tire marks until the breaking point for the next corner

The American built Allison V-1710, a V-12 engine that powered the early models of the P-38 and P-40 to name a couple, was 28 liters (1710 cubic inches) the bore was 5.5 inches and the stroke was 6 inches. The pistons were about the size of a coffee can, to give you a perspective on the size of these impressive engines.

Great podcast! Great story! Btw you don't look 43, you look about 50. But it's ok because you do great at this😅. Thanks for sharing this story!

Mr. Braun is back!!! 44 CFD servers!!! Love the stories from Eliseo Salazar 's land

It's criminal how few views your videos have because your content is terrific.

Enjoyable podcast as always, delightfully offbeat. IMO, Tony George only deserves half of the blame for the "Split", the other half falls to CART. Neither side could find a compromise that was acceptable to both. The initial seeds were sewn back in 1978 with USAC's raging incompetency, the passing of Tony Hulman, and the plane crash that killed several of the USAC execs. Perhaps even earlier with the 1955 formation of USAC. Having been following Indycar racing since the mid-1980's, I remember that mid 90's time period, and it was not as good as many remember, cracks were starting to become fissures. I will also admit to somewhat of a retro-bias against CART for what they did to Gurney in their legislation against stock-blocks and BLAT in the early 80's (RIP to the Pepsi Challenger).

Parry was Welsh, born in Wrexham North Wales, His parents moved to Oswestry Shopshire when He was five years of age. Oswestry is in England but is a border town and has in its history been both in Wales and England. Wrexham has a new buzz around our football club the 3rd oldest in the world 1864, now owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McEhenney of Hollywood fame. Thank you youtube for finding this for Me.

Exceptional episode! Well done.

Loved this one guys (obviously!)

Wonderful, funny, enjoyable episode. Thank you, guys.

Alex's crash destroyed what was left of open wheel racing for me. I only started following and watching Indycar again maybe 3-4 years ago. I love that guy, he is a hero of mine. I'm thankful for your comments about him.

See Peter Egan's Speed Secrets of the Terminally Slow.