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Re: JCB Dieselmax

To: "MPittwood@compuserve.com" <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: JCB Dieselmax
From: jkamo@rushmore.com
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:52:23 -0600
people are real uptight here............

once on the salt most of it melts.........

CHEERS........Malcom.........hoping to see the effort arrive..

Joe :)




Quoting "MPittwood@compuserve.com" <MPittwood@compuserve.com>:

> I wonder why some US racers become troubled by a speed car that happens to
> carry the name of an engineering company - in this case JCB, on its flanks.
>  This so called "corporate" organisation builds back hoe diggers and such
> other fine implements for industrial use as the 'Fastrack',  And it builds
> diesel engines too.  It is not in the racing or speed business.
> 
> The Ricardo people might be compared to a Dave D or a Mike, as they are all
> in the 'tune up' business to maximise the power output from something some
> one else has produced.  The teams aerodynamacist is a retired former rocket
> designer ............. now don't we have such a person in this group based
> in the USA?   And their consultant is the former outright land speed record
> who first used the Black Rock desert, having been flooded off the salt.  
> The driver may be a bit special as he tackled rear wheel steering and the
> sound barrier and came out with a significant record.
> 
> All US racers should just welcome a British team who wants to show its
> paces on the Bonneville Salt Flats .............. rather than in South
> Africa or Australia or Tunisia or Bolivia or Dubai or indeed any other
> location in the world (or indeed a highway in Nevada).
> 
> Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England   
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