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Re: Maserati at Watkins Glen



At 10:29 AM 11/18/99, andres yver wrote:
>Somebody mentioned something about the triple plug maser engine at the Glen.
>Was this installed in a copper or brown coupe? I remember my father rooting
>for that car. it was either in '68 or '70 (probably 68).
>I don't think it finished... Even if it had, what could it do against the
>gulf 917's?
>What year did the Chaparral vaccuum car run? '70? maybe i'm mixing up races.
>Did they have more than one event those weekends?
>sorting out foggy childhood memories,
>andres
>in sunny Santa Fe

It was me--and it was in a Formula I car. Didn't run all that well. Keith
Duckworth's comment was something to the effect of "If they can't get the
bloody fire lit with two plugs, what #$%^ good do they think a third one
could possibly do?"

Greg
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