“Look Daddy, it’s a race car!”
Many, many years before the Audi R10, this car was famous for what feat?
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“Look Daddy, it’s a race car!”
Many, many years before the Audi R10, this car was famous for what feat?
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bet that Audi to a win somewhere going round and round fast I presume? 🙂
Jerome
No. In fact it did not win the race it was built for, but did set a record which I’m pretty sure stands to this day.
–chuck
Sheesh! I missed this one while on vacation! I believe it’s Fred Agabashian’s 1952 Indy car; although not the first diesel to do either finish the race or to complete the entire race w/o a pitstop, I believe it was the highest-finishing diesel ever at the Brickyard.
As it said at the end of “Cat’s Cradle,” (beware Chuck –pending homage to Vonnegut!)a quote from the end of the “Book of Bokonen:”
“Everything in this book might be wrong.”
Very Good Wigman… Though I seem to recall that the sign said that it WAS the first Indy car ever to run the 500 miles non-stop.
–chuck
“Dave Evans’ #8 Cummins Diesel Special, the first car to complete the Indy 500 without a pit stop in *1931*.’
From the Indianapolis Speedway museum site (asterisks mine).