rfn026

Peter may be one of the most negative voices in Michigan - and there are a lot of them. Peter is on one of his "Old White Guy" rants ever week. No one pays much attention to him.

He looks back fondly on the old Can Am days and wishes he could be 23 forever. We're not going back to those days - which makes him just another old guy.

Richard

Everett Ogilvie

The motor that blew was EGR (Earnhardt Ganassi Racing). I think they know how to build motors..... stuff happens to everyone's motors occasionally. Even HMS, once in a millenium.

Actually, it was probably Earnhardt Childress who built the motor (the Wayne Taylor racing site says ECR). Either way - big name motor builder.

RX-Ben

but another Chevy car lost a cyclinder on the first lap??

Are all the DP Chevy engines assembled by ECR? Does Lozano still build the Fords? It looks like the other other car that lost an engine was a Ferrrari.

Corvette won at Le Mans last year with an in-house engine. 2010 looked good until the accident. There are some benefits (training, among others) to keeping the program in-house.

CorvetteZ51Racer

ECR does not build all of the Chevy's. CRD builds some of them as well, IIRC. Lozano has never built the Fords. They have always been built by Roush and Yates Racing Engines (RYRE). Lozano Brothers built the V8 Porsches. Ferrari has not put an engine in a DP since the inaugural season of the class in 2003, though to my knowledge they are still legal, as are the Infiniti and Lexus engines, which are not run by anyone.

TLGunman

Level 5 tested their DP with a Ferrari engine, and blew up two of them. That was probably 3 years ago.

RX-Ben

Thanks. Lozano built Dyson's "Lincoln" engine, figured they were still in it.

About the Ferrari engine, I was just noting that engine failures were nearly non-existent outside the "Chevy" engines.