Ferrari Mailing List: Was Clydeâs response to 308 gt4 now...racing is 'self-cleansing too.'

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

Clyde notes âAs aviation is self-cleansing by designâ

 

BUWHAhahahahaha

 

Sooooo sad but true. I managed an RSR Porsche race team in the mid 70âs for a guy weâll call Daddy Big Bucks. We were all glad he decided to go racing rather than buy a small Beach Bonanza he was eying (âoh, Iâll take lessons but the plane is beautiful.â) which we were all sure heâd auger into a K thru 6^th grade school assembly hall. DBB crashed a lot and broke engines too.

 

Then he got a line on a Mexican racer banker (Papa Mega Pesos) who had crashed big his first time out in his Brumos prepared RSR going up the straight at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. How? Read on. Seems the car came with the standard really wide RSR wheels but Goodyear racing tires were now wider and he wanted only the most recent. So his dweebs cut and widened the rims by adding a 3 inches band of aluminum - - - INSIDE of the wheel center. This meant that the wheel needed about 4 inches of spacer and humongous studs. The wheel spacers were made of 3 inch water pipe (I kid you not â galvanized water pipe with threads on both ends) welded in-between two actual Porsche wheel spacers.

 

When Papa Mega Pesos put the pedal to the metal on the long straight, the engine tryâs to transfer 350 horse power thru the wheels and the studs spooled up and gave Papa the squirrel ride of his life right into the Armco and he flipped. He got out of the car and said â âVENDERLO.â That he did and Daddy Big Bucks bought it.

 

We removed Daddy Big Bucks busted RSR engine and replaced it with Papa Mega Pesos Brumos engine. The next race Daddy was trying to pass a Corvette at old turn 9, a very sharp 90 degree leading onto the front straight, at Laguna Seca, got crossed up, tried to power out of it and went nose center into the Armco of the old pit entrance putting the LF corner in the drivers compartment. He avoided injury to himself and others but not to his brain. I left the team. Daddy had the car repaired and tried racing it but it was less than satisfactory and Daddy dropped out of sight â but not, dear reader, out of mind. Ah ah ah.

 

Onward

 

DOUG