[Shotimes] OT - IRL Gen 4 Chevy, NOT!

[Ron Porter]

Here is the Cosworth site:

http://www.cosworth-technology.co.uk/index.html

The only time I saw Ford in the major webpages was when they said that they
won a Ford Quality award in 1998. I don't see where you guys get hung up
with "Chevy going to Ford" for an engine. Cosworth happens to be owned by
Ford, and that the way it's left. Cosworth is an independent engineering
firm.

Personally, I think it's a damn smart idea for auto companies to go to
Cosworth, Lotus, Ilmor, etc, for racing technology, rather than burning up
money to do it in-house. Companies everywhere are honing in on their core
competencies, and farming out the rest.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 5:24 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - IRL Gen 4 Chevy, NOT!


I tend to follow F1 more so than the other forms of open wheel racing, but
Ford-Cosworth's prime spec engine goes to the Ford factory racing team, that
being Jag.  Jordan and Minardi get second and third spec engines.  This is
for
a league in which Ford directly completes.  The issue that Dave raises is
that
GM is buying engine technology from Ford, and hence the embarrassment that
GM
should feel in that it can't bring its massive R&D to bear on building a
competitive racing engine.  It's probably less of an issue to Ford since
they
don't compete in IRL, but if CART and IRL were combined I bet it would be a
different story.
I agree that any GM bigot should feel upset at them going to the competition
to buy engine technology.

Carl P.