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bumpers, and New York license plates. The whole field ran across the track, fired-up and turned right peeling rubber with nobody apparently pussyfooting. Certainly the more serious preparators would have been finely balancing clearances, viscosities, temperatures in all systems, but it still looked like a far cry from our car-coddling. Of course they weren't all looking beyond a few thousand miles.
Well not that many people do Formula 1 - style starts on their way to work, but I could be wrong. :-) Its nice to think about those Le Mans starts, I wonder if they had maybe used Luca's warm-up approach, or something similar prior to the actual running (no pun attended) of the race. and to balance out the filter-to-noise ratio, http://www.saabperformanceparts.com/prod01.htm This site discusses the Magnecor 8mm for those who were interested... Ryan -- to be removed from alfa, see /bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to majordomo@domain.elided