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Form Up to Take Checker at Daytona 24-Hour
The leading Porsches fell into a formation as they prepared to take the checkered
flag at the end of the Daytona 24-Hour race. The 907 at the top was the winner, no.
52 was second and no. 51 third. Behind the Porsches is the Titus/Bucknum Mustang
which was fourth overall and first in the TransAmerican categor;v. Then came the
three Sunray DX Corvettes, including the GT winner, the Grant/Morgan 1967 car
closest to camera.
(M. Garapedian photo)
PORSCHES OUTLAST FIELD AT DAYTONA
Factory 907s Take 1-2-3;
Titus/Bucknum Mustang 4th
Vol. 18, No. 6
Entered as second class mail at
Lafayette, California
February 24, 1968
ford Names
Ex -GM-· Veep
President
DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 6 Semon E. (Bunky) Knudsen became
president of Ford Motor Co. today,
a mere six days after resigning as
an executive vice-president of Gen­
eral Motors.
The new .55-year-old Ford presi­
dent is known in the industry as
promotional-minded and is said to
regard racing as a means of stlmu­
lath� sales. Informed sources re­
port that Knudsen was one of the
leading proponents of racing within
GM.
Knudsen replaces Arjay Miller,
who will become vice-chairman of
the board in charge of finance,
overall corporate planning and ex­
ternal affairs. Knudsen reports di­
rectly to Henry Ford II and will be
the company's chief executive offi­
cer in the absence of Ford.
Knudsen's father, president of
GM from 1937 to 1940, was a Ford
executive from 1913 to 1921 and was
in charge of constructing Ford's
Rouge plant.
The new Ford president was one
of the contenders for the GM presi­
dent's job which went recently to
Ed Cole. Knudsen, with GM since
1939, had been the general manager
of both the Pontiac and Chevrolet
divisioos, a group vice-president of
Canadian and overseas activities
and was appointed an e xe c uti v e
two years ago.
vice-pres�dent
_
In addition to becoming president,
Knudsen was elected to both the
FoMoCo board and the executive
committee.
Knudsen had been reported un­
happy with the new officer appoint­
ments at GM and, more particular­
ly, with the chain of command, which
had been altered.
Edward Rollert stepped into Knud­
sen's job at General Motors.
A New Lincoln ·continental
Evolution of the elegant Lincoln Continental is highlighted by the new
Mark 3, to be shown for the first time at the Chicago Auto Show.
The traditional long' hood, short deck theme has been retained in the
latest of personal luxury motorcars from the L incoln-Mercury
division (see story on page 13).
LATE NEllVS
• JW !,ngineering, builders of the Ford GT40 and Mirage, will have 3liter cars ready for the BOAC 500 April 7 with power supplied by BRM.
• British television is still refusing to telecast any races where adver­
tising is displayed on competing cars.
• Al Unser has a one-race deal with Cotton Owens to drive the no. 6
Charger in the Daytona 500.
• Chris Irwin is definitely the second driver on the Honda F/1 team.
He will have an all-new Honda, the RA301 by mid-season.
• Dick Gilmartin and Bob Sharp Racing have parted ways, reportedly
due to a budget cut by Datsun.
• Add to firm NASCAR rides, Gordon Johncock in the Smokey Yunick
Chevelle, at least for the Daytona 500, Paul Goldsmith in a Plymollth
Roadrunner in a deal similar to that of Dare! Dieringer, and Donnie
Allison in a Jack Bowsher Ford.
• The land speed records from 75 kilometers to 24 hours, set by
Smokey Y unick's Camaro late last year were erased by Craig Breed­
love with a 304CID AMX on the Goodyear San Angelo test track. Breed­
love will re'turn with a lower gear ratio to have at the first 75 kilos.
• British-Leyland Motor Corp. will soon debut a sohc 1500cc engine
for their sedan series.
• Roger Penske will enter a 396 Camaro in the GT class at the Watkins
Glen and LeMans international meets.
'e Vic Elford, winner of the Monte Carlo Rally and the Daytona 24-Hour
race, is negotiating for a ride in the Daytona 500.
• Alfa's new 2.5-liter engine will definitely appear at Sebring.
• Much consternation was reported in the Shelby and Wynn's Oil camps
when each found that they did not have the exclusive deal they thought
they had with drag racer Don Prudhomme. He had both •Wynn's Cammer•
and *Shelby's Super Snake• on his car at the Wlnternational Drag Races
Feb. 3-4.
By Bill Finefrock
A utoweek Editor
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.,Feb. 4R u b b i n g it in a little, Porsche
b r o u g h t their three winning cars
across the finish line side-by-side
at the 24 Hours of Daytona.
There was little left of the com­
petition as the ·Vic Elforcl/Jochen
Neerpasch Porsche 907 averaged
more than 106mph to cover in ex­
cess of 2500 miles during the FIA
championship event.
The second and third place cars
were also 907s - the first driven
by Jo Siffert, Gerhard Mitter and
Hans Herrmann and the second by
Joe Buzzetta and Jo Schlesser. The
third-place car, a late entry, was
the one wrecked by Neerpasch during
testing here in December.
Bids by John Wyer•s two 289CID
Ford GT40s - fastest qualifiers of
the meet - ended when the Jackie
Ickx/Brian Redman entry went out
with a broken gearbox before the 3hour mark, while leading the race.
The second Wyer car,. with Paul
Hawkins and David Hobbs up, re­
tired In the small hours of the morn­
ing since the crew could not repair
a ruptured gas bladder within the
mandatory 3-hour limit.
Jerry Titus followed the three
Porsches across the finish line to
outdistance all the TransAmerican
sedan competitors and place fourth
overall. The second place Mark
Donohue/Bob Johnson/Craig Fisher
Camaro was 64 laps behind the Mus­
tang thanks largely to a 2-1/2-hour
.pit stop to replace two heads.
The Bill Boye/Billy Yuma Ca­
maro was-third among the six over2-liter TransAm finishers with 540
laps.
HOWMET CRASHES
The big question mark of the race,
the new Howmet turbine prototype,
Two-Liter Cars
In GT Division
DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 4 - Fol­
lowing the pattern of SCCA Trans­
American sedan racing, NASCAR
today announced the addition of an
under-2-liter class In their new
Grand Touring di vision.
In addition to overall position
money, a special $1500 purse will
be added for the under-2-liter win­
ner.
NASCAR's GT series opens Mar.
9 at the No. Carolina Motor Speed­
way in Rockingham, No. Carolina.
which qualified seventh fastest be­
hind the two GT40s and four of the
factory Porsches, went out after the
throttle stuck on lap 42. The inci­
dent sent driver Ed Lowther careen­
ing Into the wall at the entrance to
the banked portion of the 3.81-mlle
course.
Jerry Grant and David Morgan
placed a smooth-runrung Sunray DX
196'7 Corvette first in the GT cate­
gory after their teammates and early
leaders Pete Revson and Don Yenko
had a 2-hour pit stop near dawn_to
install the entire rear drive as­
sembly as a result of losing a wheel.
Grant, particularly elated because
he has had a poor finish record,
and Morgan completed 586 laps or
•
2231.66 miles.
The only finishers of the six
sports 50 (Group 4) cars which
started was a sick Ferrari 250LM
driven by Guillermo Ortega Jr.
and Fausto Mereno of Ecuador and
John Gunn of Miami, Fla. Finishing
eighth overall, the Ferrari com­
pleted 592 laps.
The overall winner covered 673
laps or 2565.69 miles to average
106.697mph. Both the second and
third place cars completed 659 laps
while the Titus/Ron Bucknum Mus­
tang was 30 laps in arrears for
fourth.
Thirty of the 63 starters saw the
checker.
FIVE WINNERS
In addition to Elfprd, who was
driving at the finish and Neerpasch,
P o r s c h e's director of r a c i n g,
Huschke von Hanstein put Siffert,
Rolf Stommelen and Hans Herr(Continued on page 9)
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The Titus/Bucknum Mustang finished fourth overall and way out in
front of the other Trans-American sedans.
(Jack Brady Associates photo)
More on:
Porsche Swamps Field
(Continued from page 1)
mann in the winning car late in the
race.
While it appeared that this was a
gesture to give the leading factory
drivers a chance to drive the win­
ning car, van Hanstein asserted that
his strategy was to "keep the quick
one in front.•
Mitter, Schlesser and Buzzetta
were the only factory drivers who
did not drive the winning car, and
they were busy with their own cars.
All the Porsche factory entries
except one 907LM were 2.2-liter,
8-cylinder models. Results of the
race will be evaluated, a Porsche
spokesman said, and the results
w!ll determine the future role of
Porsche's 3-liter engine, currently
well along in development.
The team at Sebring will be pretty
much the same as Daytona, except
that Lodovico Scarfiotti will prob­
ably be added.
Porsche repeated Ferrari's per­
formance in the 1967 Daytona 24
Hours when the Italians took a 1-2-3
victory. The 4-liter Ferrari P4s
were slower than the Porsches; the
lead Lorenzo Bandini/Chris Amon
car averaging 105.688mph. The El­
ford/N e e r p a s c h Porsche cover­
ed seven more laps than the Fer­
raris, although the race record is
held by the bigger Ken Miles/Lloyd
Ruby Mk 2 Ford, winner of the 1966
event at 108.02mph.
This race marked the first time
the FIA's new 3-liter limit on pro­
totypes and 5-llter limit on sports
50 cars was in effect.
BAD CRASH
The Porsche factory might have
placed at least one more car with
the front runners except for a spec�
tacular 3-car accident some four
hours into the 24-hour contest.
Crossing the banked start/finish
line while running in third place,
Mitter's 907 lost air in the right
rear tire and shot into the wall,
flipping and sliding toward turn 1
on its top.
Masten Gregory, following close­
ly behind in a Ferrari, said he hit
his brakes as hard as he could but
went c o m p l e t e l y out of control.
G r e g o r y jumped out of the car
through the area where the wind­
shield used to be when the car
finally came to rest in turn 1 after
t r a v e l i n g end-over-end several
times.
A second Porsche was lost when
D i e t e r Spoerry's 1991cc 907LM
came on the scene. It was thought
that oil dropped from Mitter's oil
tank caused the other two cars to
lose oontrol.
The Malcolm Starr/George Win­
tersteen Mustang, which had blown
an engine in the area a short time
before, got the blame at first, but
Mitter said he did not see any oil
on the course before he crashed.
He did say, h o w e v e r, that the
Porsche felt odd at the start/ finish line.
Elford said after the race that
he was about five seconds behind
the melee in the winning Porsche.
"It was like driving into a fog,• he
said, referring to a tremendous
cloud of dust.
The Porsches appeared to have a
case of rear end hop all during the
event. They would yawl to the left
on Daytona's banks when braking.
Elford said it actually looked worse
than it was, although another team
driver said the cars •were a hand­
ful.'
The demise of the Howmet car
was caused by a sticking butterfly
valve in the waste. gate (exhaust)
system, which controls the speed of
the car. Lowther said the valve
stuck, a trait it had demonstrated
previously.
The car had taken fourth overall
briefly from Mitter a half hour be­
fore it hit the wall and was retired
with a broken right suspension and
bent frame.
The valve will be re-engineered
prior to Sebring.
The car also suffered from high
tu e 1 consumption and occasional
flameouts caused by fuel starvation
due to lack of an accumulator tank.
Dr. Richard Thompson said the tur­
bine shut down on him once, but that
he used the starter to keep it running
after that.
The drivers had to shut the tur­
bine off on Daytona's back stretch
and coast into the pits so that the
interior of the turbine would not
bind due to different rates of oon­
traction during cooling.
Ironically, the car, turning laps
comparable to the Porsches, would
have increased by 70hp during the
cool 35-degree night. (The unit gains
about l hp for every two degrees of
ambient temperature drop, Howmet
says. - ed.)
The . Ickx/Redman GT40, fastest
qualifier at 1 19.370mph, took the
CASTROL
The two John Wyer GT40 Fords are at the front of the pack early in the Daytona 24 Hours. The car at
right, driven by Jackie Ickx/Brian Redman, was the pole winner. The winning Porsche ls the fifth car
(Jack Brady Associates photo)
back.
lead from teammates Hawkins and
Hobbs on the second lap and held
that spot until retiring with gearbox
!lls after 67 laps.
Hawkins shot into the pits, and
when the crew could find nothing
wrong, came sailing out again some
5 seconds from being lapped by Ickx.
When the Ickx/Redman effort was
exhausted, this second GT40 held
the lead until lap 231 when the Buz­
zetta/Schlesser Porsche moved into
first during a pit stop.
Hawkins and Hobbs got into the
lead again for 16 laps, but lost it to
the Siffert/Mitter 907. Thereafter
the GT40 ran mostly second and
The Marlo Andretti/Luclen Bianchi Alfa T33 goes around one of the
third.
Sunray DX Corvettes. Alfa placed the 1.9-liter cars fifth, sixth and
But it was all Porsche's show
seventh
overall.
(Alice Bixler photo)
when at 6:19am the Hawkins/Hobbs
Ford pitted with a spilt fuel bladder. at equal 10-lap intervals.
c a t e g o r y, separated from t h e
The car reappeared briefly at 11:35
With Siffert working the throttle P o r s c h e s from the fourth-place
am, but was blackflagged as It had by hand, the lead car came in the o v e r a l l Titus/Bucknum Mustang.
been in the pits past the 3-hour pits at 11:44 for a 22-minute pit The first Alfa, driven by Udo Schutz
limit.
stop to fix the linkage. Siffert was and Nino Vacarella, was 56 laps be­
At 7am - 16 hours Into the race sent out, but told to take it easy for hind the winner.
- Porsche no. 52 driven by Siffert/ several laps to check the .repair.
Marlo Andrettl, who won the Day­
Mitter was leading, followed by the
He lost 14 laps and the lead to tona 500 here last year, shared
B uzzetta/Schlesser car. The even­ the Elford/Neerpasch car.
driving chores in the second Alfa
tual winner was third 15 laps off
with Lucien Bianchi.
the pace. At 9:30am, Herrmann was ALFA FIFTH
The over-2-llter TransAmerican
still leading, followed by Elford/
Alfa placed their 1.9-liter pro­ battle dlsintegr ed "'1/�.n !he sec­
N eerpasch and Buzzetta/Schlesser totypes fourth, fifth and sixth in
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FEB. 24, 1968
COMPETITION PRESS & AUTOWEEK
More on:
Porsche 1-2-3
(Continued from page 9)
ond-placed Penske t:amaro had to
make unscheduled pit stops to re­
place two heads at 4:35am. The
Chevy, with Donohue driving, was
the fastest TransAm qualifier.
The second factory Mustang, driv­
en by Allan Moffat and Horst Kwech,
was retired shortly before 10pm
after the left front suspension broke.
Only three Mustangs and three
Camaros finished In the big-bore
TransAm category.
Taking a clue from the prototype
results, Porsche took the first four
Do s I t i o n s In the under-2-llter
TransAm b a t t l e with the P e t e r
r.•ee;g/Sten Axelsson 911 settlne;
the pace with a ninth overall. The
pair completed 589 laps to finish
ahead of the GT-winning Grant/
Morgan Corvette at 586 laps.
Only a sticking transmission both­
ered the GT category winner, while
most of the other Corvettes had
more serious troubles.
The Sunray DX team's principal
o p p o s i t i o n was expected from
American International's two en­
tries, but the team had to replace
tour differentials because of leak­
Ing s e a 1 s. The Ed Leslie/Dick
Guldstrand car (with the whole team
sharing driving) limped across the
finish line In 29th spot while running
on seven cylinders and with a leak­
Ing differential.
The tire war got a new, or re­
vitalized, combatant. Dunlop had
tires on 12-1/2 cars, Goodyear on
27-1/2, Firestone on 20 and Plrelll
and Michelin on one each. The
Porsche factory cars used Dunlops.
The biggest hand from the spec­
tators and the pits alike went to
George Waltman, who drove his
Morgan solo for 338 laps to become
the last finisher In 3oth place.
Aside from the Porsche-Ferrari
crash, there were no serious acci­
dents. No one was hurt during the
24 hours, although Mitter was a
little sore from his upside-down
ride.
DAYTONA 24-HOURS INTERNATIONAL FIA
ROAD RACE, DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL
RACEWAY, DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.,FEB.
3-4.
1 - Vic Elford/Jochen Neerpasch/ Jo Sif­
fert/Rolf S t o m m e l e n/Hans Herrmann,
Porsche 907, 673 laps, 2565.69 miles ln
24.02:47 tor 106.697mph average (1st proto);
2 - Jo Siffert/Gerhard Mitter/Hans Herr­
mann, Porsche 907, 659 laps (2nd proto);
3 - Joe Buzzetta/ Jo Schlesser, Porsche
907, 659 laps (3rd proto); 4 - Jerry Tit us/
Ronni e Bucknum, M ustang, 629 laps (1st
0 2L TransAm), 5 - Udo Schu t z/Nino Vac­
carella, Alfa T33, 617 laps (4th prate); 6 -
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a lo Casont, Alla T33,594 laps (6thproto);
8 - Guillermo Ortega/Fausto Merello/John
Gunn, Ferrari 250LM ,592 laps (1st sports);
9 - Peter Gregg/Sten A:icelsson, Porsche
911, 589 laps (1st U2L TransAm); 10 Jerry Grant/David M organ, Cor ve tte, 586
laps (1st GT); 11 - Bob Stcx:ldard/Lewts
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laps (2nd 02L TransAm); 13 - Jim Netter­
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TransAm), 16 - Bill Boye/Billy Yuma,Ca­
mara, 540 laps (3 rd 02L Tr ansAm); 17 Joie Chitwood Jr/Buzz Barton,Camaro,536
laps (4th 02L TransAm); 18 - Jean-Pierre
Hanrlouct/Sylvatn Garant,Porsche 91 lS,534
laps (2nd GT); 19 - Del Taylor/Bob Pratt/
B r uce M yers, Alta GTA, 533 laps (5th U2L
TransAm); 20 - Leo Cella/Gtamptero Bts­
caldt, Alfa GTA, 529 laps(6th U2LTran.sAm);
21 - Sam Po sey/Jim Kauffman, Mustang,
523 laps (5t h 02L TransAm); 22 - Edward
Ross/H. Craig Pelouze, Corvettel 515 laps
(3rd GT); 23 - Bob GrossmarvBob Dint,
Mustang, 514 laps (6th 02L TransAm); 24 Mark K onig/Tony Latranchi, Nomad-Fo rd,
506 laps (8th proto); 25 .. Peter Re vson/Don
Yenko, Corvette, 496 laps {4th GT); 26 Fr ed Opert/Joe G rimaldi, Porsche 911,471
laps (7th U2L TransAm); 27 - Ant hony De­
Lorenzo/Ge rald Thompso n , Co rvette, 470
laps (5th GT); 28 - John Ryan/Pete Harrison,
Porsche 911 1 393 laps (8th U2L TransAm);
29 - Dick Guldstrand/Ed Leslie, Corvett e,
373 laps, (6t h GT); 30 - George Waltman,
M organ, 338 laps (7th GT).
DNF: 31 - Holland er/Kleinpeter/M um­
mery, 350GT, 510 laps, reason unknown;
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The Gregory/Piper Ferrari leads the Schutz/Vaccarella Alfa, the Andrettl/Blanchl Alfa and the Buzzetta/
Schless�r Porsche. The Ferrari was eliminated during a spectacular 3-car crash with Gerhard Mitter and
Dieter Spoerry, while one of the cars also hit Bianchi, but he was able to continue after a stop.
32 - Nelson/Hallwood, Fo rd GT40,507 laps,
reason unknown; 33 - Hawkins/Hobbs, Fo rd.
GT40, 430 laps, ruptured fuel b ladd er; 34 Ves t y/Plke/Rtdgway, Ferrari 275LM, 264
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MGB, 226 laps, clut ch; 38 - Maxwell/Martin,
Volvo 1225, 188 laps, hole in all pan; 39 Anderson/Facetti, Lancia HF, 180 laps,
broken crank; 40 - Poole, TR4A, 179 laps,
dlsquallfted for dr opping oi l and too slow;
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Ford GT40, 58 laps, gea rbox; 55 - Mlller/
Payne-Herbert/Walton, Porsche Ca rrera,46
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Fer rari, 45 laps, cracked head; 57 - Rob­
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u n known; 58 - Wonder/Cuomo, Ford GT40,
42 laps, lost water hose o n pace lap, o ver­
heat ing; 59 - Heppenstall/Thompson/Low­
ther, Howmet Turbine, 34 laps,crash; 60 Moore/Murphy, Camara, 34 laps, unknown;
61 - Sherk/Diehl,Dart, 20 laps, drive shaft;
62 - Magllolt/Baghettl, Lancia Fulv ia, 6
laps, broken ro cker arm; 63 - Everett/
Jennings/Balle y, Porsche 911, broke rod.
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race and Dave Tallaksen, Chief
Stewart of the event, allowed Hall
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through tech Inspection.
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•we extended the same courtesy of
testing equipment to two Corvettes.•
Smith said that the Yunlck Camaro
was never legal, but It was safe.
"There's a difference between being
legal and being safe, and we let It
onto the track after we made sure
the car was safe.
"But It never passed tech Inspec­
tion, contrary to published opinion,•
Smith said.
•As a result Smokey protested
the decision of the Chief Steward,
but the Stewards of the Meeting
threw out the protest because the
car had not passed tech," Smith
said.
Jim Patterson, SCCA's Deputy
Competition D i r e c t o r, said the
Yunlck Camaro that showed up was
most probably the same one Yunlck
took to RI verslde for Lloyd Ruby to
drive. The car wasn't allowed to
compete because of Its Illegality
there.
'The major things about Smokey's
car that we could not allow were
concerned primarily with the sus­
pension and bodywork,• Patterson
said.
"He had lowered the front sus­
pension, cutting out the top of the
A-frame, modified the rear deck
lid, fender wells, and streamlined
the belly pan.• Patterson said Yunick
also added radiator shrouding and
streamlined the grille, taking out
the headlight operating mechanisms.
The rear spoiler· was smoothed
down into the deck lid, which Is not
the way the car was homologated,
Patterson said. "Penske's cir shows
the way It should be done, with a
three-quarters of an inch space be­
tween the spoiler and the deck lid.•
Apparently Yunlck also smoothed
out the fender wells and the belly
pan with a heavy filler that could
not be allowed.
"There was also a great deal of
welding that was not legal," Smith
added. "From what we could see,
the rollcage was welded to the body
and the body was then welded to
the frame of the car.•
Yunlck was handed a list of things
wrong with his car, but wouldn •t
show the list to anybody. Patterson
said: "Floyd Stone and 1 checked the
car he brought to Riverside and we
checked this one. It looked like the
same car.•
�'ollowlng the RI v er s I d e race
Yunlck made adjustments on the
Camara, "but none of them amount­
ed to much and we still could not
let the car run in this race," Pat­
terson said.
As If the Yunlck Camaro racing
innovations were not enough, there
were several minor reasons why
the car could not race. "He re­
fused to put the right kind of num­
bers on the car, n Patterson said.
"Rules call for black numbers on
white background, and he had gold
numbers on a black background.•
The now-famed Yunlck approach
to Trans-American Sedan Cham­
pionship racing cannot be approved
by the SCCA as things stand now.
But the car may be all right for
NASCAR's GT series, although that
remains to be seen.
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Penske Crew
Give Boss Good
Nfokname
Howmet Nearly
Sidelined At
Daytona Race
By Mike Gremaucl
C ontributing Editor
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 2
- About the time that everything
appeared to be over for the day,
Roger Penske began to live up to
his secret nickname - •The Ille­
able Slave Driver.•
Penske has a reputation of getting
the most out of his crew, making
them happy and more efficient at
the same time. And today was no ,
exception.
•We'll practice our fl r ·s t pit
stop,• Penske said, while driv­
ers Mark Donohue and Craig Fish­
er looked on. Holding a stop watch,
Penske sat on the pit wall while
his crew "added 30 gallons of gas,
checked the oil and cleaned the
windshield."
ROGER PENSKE
Our stopwatches showed 22 sec­
After Penske tried graphite on the
onds, but Penske only said, •You
look like you're asleep. Let's do wheel, Wanderer offered another
suggestion, which was taken and
it again.•
Donohue looked on and only said used.
Pit stop methods began getting
what Penske had. told him a day
earlier: •we didn't come down here better for the Penske Camaro crew,
thanks to some friendly advice from
to wear our good clothes.
"You know,• Mark said, as the a FoMoCo man. But Penske wasn't
crew got the time down to around happy yet.
Again and again they practiced
20 seconds on the second try, •you
never know the meaning of work their pit stops, and the times got
Io we r and lower. Finally, when
until you're with Roger."
Satisfied with the second effort, everything met with Penske's sat­
Penske had his crew try It again. isfaction, the crew packed up and
The watches showed 16 seconds, went back to the garage, for more
but Penske said, "Twenty seconds. work.
"See/' Donohue said, "you don't
Let's change the tires on the right
side, add gas and check the oil." know the meaning of work until
Signals set, the Penske crew went you've been with Roger.•
to It. But apparently not to Penske's
liking.
John Wanderer, the Holman-Moo­
dy engineer who was In charge of
the Honker CanAm project, walked
over and watched the Penske team
at work. When one member of Pen­
ske's crew had difficulty In getting
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 3
the jack over the pit wall and under - The Howmet TX turbine could
the sleek blue Sunoco Camaro, Wan­ have set some sort of fuel consump­
derer stepped In and offered a bit tion record, If It had not been
of friendly advice to Penske.
forced out of the race due to an
•rt would be faster,• the Ford accident during the second hour.
expert said, "if he would pick up
Ray Heppenstall, chief engineer
the jack, hop over the pit wall and on the Howmet experimental car,
run over to the other side of the said that they had planned at least
car.•
23 pit stops during the 24-hour
With that in mind, they tried It race.
again and got the time down to a
''We were using more fuel than
little over a minute. But the right we expected, and had planned 23
front wheel did not go on as easily pit stops for fuel changes, until the
as Penske would have lllced.
accident," Heppenstall said.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb.
- As unique as the Howmet TX
turbine car is, there's one charac­
teristic about the car that nearly
sidelined the whole project here.
During practice on Wednesday,
the engine came apart, and the
team's number two car was pressed
into service.
"What makes it so unique for us,
Is that we do not have the facilities
to change engines here !lice the
other cars do,• said Ray Heppen­
stall, chief engineer on the Howmet
racing program.
"The engine grows about 60-thou­
sandths when It is running, and this
creates a problem with our engine
mounts," he said. "There are four
mounts which have been designed
to move on various , planes when
the engine grows.•
At the front of the engine there
Is a blpod mount, which Is solid
and can move on vertical and lat­
eral planes. At the left rear of the
engine there Is a solid tripod mount,
which can only move on a lateral
plane. And at the right rear of the
engine there Is a monopod mount
which moves only on a vertical
plane.
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The Howmet turbine was running well up In the pack when a butterfly
valve on Its waste gate system stuck shut, sending the car Into the
wall at turn 6, the same place the Chaparral crashed at last year's
Daytona 24-hour race.
(M. Garapedlan photo)
The problem lies In the engine
Installation. In order to accurately
align the engine with the mounts,
Heppenstall said an exotic device Is
needed.
•When we lost the engine on our
top car, there were two choices -
Install an engine without our little
devl ce and run with no guarantee of
proper alignment, or use the backup
car," he said.
"I had no alternative but to use
the backup car,• he added, •and
besides It proved to be lighter.•
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