This is the email I intend to send.
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    Auto racing should not only be a test of driving skill but it should also encourage the
development of better engines and cars. In these days the efficiency of the engine is critical to
the future viability of the internal combustion engine.

Snips..........

    I was an engineer at Chaparral cars in the late sixties designing Can Am cars when the only
rules were safety and the ability to carry a passenger.  Any engine was allowed regardless of
displacement.  No minimum weight was specified.  In that era, fantastic car designs were emerging
and the series was very popular with the spectators.
Paul Lamar

Jack Beale wrote:

P,

    I couldn't agree more.  For years (since the days of the turbine and Andy Granitelli), I've
thought that ruling out, other than a few specific engines in the Indy 500, was detrimental to the
concept of the race in the first place.  I actually watched the first turbine car 'clean clock'
over all the other piston driven vehicles the first year it ran.  It was laps ahead of the rest ot
the pack, when it retired due to a failure of a transmission bearing.  The next year, the race
commission reduced the air intake area crippline the hp that could be generated, thus driving the
turbine out of competition.  Perhaps, if the engine had been allowed, given the interceding years;
we'd now have a competively priced turbine for use in our cars and airplanes...

    And I was privilidged to have been able to watch the fruits of your designs and labor,
compete at the Riverside Raceway.  The CanAm series was awsome, and Jimmy Clark's (I believe) ride
in the Chaparral cars was awe inspiring...!  Those cars dominated for years and were the envy of
most of the other drivers and owners.  Thanks for the show.

Jack Beale
jack.beale@att.net
looking into using a rotary in a Cozy

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