racer2c
03-12-03, 02:39 PM
Autoweek article (http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=motorsportsnews&loc_code=index&content_code=04579062)
On V10's: Ford makes one and Pook said VW is making them (?). Dodge also makes one, although it's a push rod engine (I wonder if the Triton V10 is pushrod also). I wonder if the angle is to be more production based than the incredibly high tech F1 counter parts. That way they can market the best of both worlds, CART is 'high tech' because it uses a V10 (audience oohs and aahs) and those very same V10s are in these very same production vehicles that you can buy. Dodge has been with the Barber ladder series for a good while now and their relationship with CART seems to get closer every year.
On gasoline: Interesting comments from Shell. It looks like Pook pretty much lay out his thinking on future sponsorship. Get a gas company (not lubricant) bring in their convenience stores and the consumer products follow. Allot of what Pook talks about in recent interviews is '05 based. A reminder that the CWS is in a reconstruction period and the gears are in motion to awaken the giant in '05.
On V10's: Ford makes one and Pook said VW is making them (?). Dodge also makes one, although it's a push rod engine (I wonder if the Triton V10 is pushrod also). I wonder if the angle is to be more production based than the incredibly high tech F1 counter parts. That way they can market the best of both worlds, CART is 'high tech' because it uses a V10 (audience oohs and aahs) and those very same V10s are in these very same production vehicles that you can buy. Dodge has been with the Barber ladder series for a good while now and their relationship with CART seems to get closer every year.
On gasoline: Interesting comments from Shell. It looks like Pook pretty much lay out his thinking on future sponsorship. Get a gas company (not lubricant) bring in their convenience stores and the consumer products follow. Allot of what Pook talks about in recent interviews is '05 based. A reminder that the CWS is in a reconstruction period and the gears are in motion to awaken the giant in '05.