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From: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: best car (Plymouth Superbird?)
Message-ID: <7775@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 17:31:19 EST
Article-I.D.: watrose.7775
Posted: Fri Jan 24 17:31:19 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jan-86 03:36:59 EST
References: <2800005@faust> <-39614471@techsup> <773@grkermi.UUCP>
Reply-To: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <773@grkermi.UUCP> markm@grkermi.UUCP (Mark S. Miller) writes:

>> The superbird didn't fare that well on the race circuit.  220 mph was great
>> on a track by itself, but the thing was pretty poor when it had to run in a 
>> pack of slower cars.  
>
>Now, I'm a little rusty on my Mopar lore, but as I recall the
>SuperBird/Daytona dominated for the years they ran. In fact, they did
>so well that the Reg's were changed to stop them. As I recall a
>Superbird held the record at Daytona (200 something or other mph)
>until just a couple of years ago.

Sounds like the stock car equivalent of Porsches.  Regulations change
continuously to stop Porsche domination of various race series.
Witness Can-Am (917 was too fast), IMSA (935, 962), World Endurance
Championship (917, 935, 956, 962C), and things such as the possibility
of the Porsche Indy-car way back when.  Racing executives are mostl
interested in having a wide variety of cars winning, and will change
the rules if one company really does a good job and begins dominating.
It isn't enough to have a variety of winning drivers, they have to be
in different cars as well.


				   \tom haapanen
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