Secrets Of Speed: Unfair Advantage

Unfair Advantage is every racer's secret dream: a special technology that gives you

speed

so superior that you can literally blow the doors off the competition. The term was coined by the late Mark W, who enjoyed such an

advantage

in his turbocharged Porsche 917. Who dominated Can-Am racing and set seven new

speed

records in the early 1970s, the engineering genius behind this impressive 917 was Dr. Ferdinand piak, grandson and namesake of dr. Ferdinand Porsche shortly after achieving such success with his 917 dr. Theic left the ranks of Porsche and joined another German automaker. His first challenge to his new engineers was to come up with an innovative idea: an

unfair

advantage

that would separate them from the rest to find that advantage. px engineers do not look to the future but to the past, to a concept almost as old as the automobile itself.

All-wheel drive. The idea first appeared in 1902, but the hardware proved so cumbersome that over the years it only found its way into elegant utility vehicles. Innovators like Bugatti Miller and Ferguson tried to apply the idea to racing cars, but the machines proved difficult to handle, but the advantage slipped away. Then, in 1967, the idea resurfaced in Indianapolis when Andy Granatelli introduced a radical turbine-powered all-wheel drive machine. and driver Parnelli Jones came within seven miles of winning the 500 before a trivial part failure sidelined him. All-wheel drive was soon banned from independent competition for being outside the mainstream of automotive design, and racing engineers turned to aerodynamics in their quest. for the

unfair

advantage in 1981, hello, the engineers felt they had found the secret: a center differential, a new way of distributing power between the front and rear wheels, they called their system Quattro to demonstrate the value of their new system, They entered the World Rally Championship. where a vehicle must demonstrate speed on some of the roughest and slipperiest roads in the world.

If all-wheel drive were an advantage, it would be here. The Quattro showed its heels to the competition driver Walter Röhrl describes the experience in Oedipus as an ice skate of exclusion maybe we'll say it's like a rocket taking off, that's how you can imagine it, actually it's nothing like ordinary acceleration, sit back and enjoy the balancing act of altar girls driving to the limit of sickness, basically with these cars , if you start to think that you have finished slow, what you need. It's a kind of sixth sense, you have to be one step ahead all the time with this car, if you wait until something happens then it's too late, you have to anticipate and all that talk you used to hear about driving by the seat of your cars. pants if that's how you feel but the car is a waste then it's probably the last time you'll feel anything because if you wait that long you'll go off the road all-wheel drive also requires a different driving technique braking with your foot to turn the car while waka roll demonstrates here that a camera and everything set the fastest time on stage for the world rally championships in the record book the Quatro turned towards the United States the goal the Pikes Peak Hill Climb an event dominated by a single purpose - Rear-wheel drive sprinter seat The American rally champion strapped in first to test the Quattro here, the four-wheel drive Audi is very, very important because when you have a lot of horsepower you need to put the horses to the ground and you'll see.

As open-wheel cars and even stock cars spin their wheels furiously when they start, this is very exciting, but it doesn't take you to the top since 1985, French rally champion Michele Mouton drives a Quattro to overall victory at Pikes Peak. Defeating more than 60 conventional machines in the process, you always slide from one side to the other it's like a ballet, it's like a dance and it's fantastic. I'm not the guitar and I saw his love do a very good job driving the car. It was much, much, much of everything I had seen before. Adi has done a tremendous job on all-wheel drive and I saw things that also sounded and I started thinking a lot, talking a lot about a study and trying to see the best way to go back and recover the record, the lawyer saw it every time he did this and the record that was set at 85, most people around here thought well that's all.

Obviously, if someone is going to drive with this car, it even impresses them and it is difficult to impress them. In 1986, the Quattro did not surprise him and since then the network of fastest times in the race to the clouds, Waterworld, followed a year later with another record and, since then, all the Pikes. The summit winner turned to all-wheel drive to gain an advantage. Next, he put the power to the pavement. All-wheel drive had proven to be an advantage on dirt, but it wouldn't work on pavement at the banked Talladega Speedway in a secret test. Bobby Unser attempts a closed-course world speed record in a specially prepared Cointreau, despite the aerodynamic disadvantage of the square four-door sedan, breaks 200 miles per hour and sets 10 new international speed records, confident that they also had here an advantage, the engineers decide to enter a production.

Patro based on the 1988 Sports Car Club of America Trans Am series. It was also the first time that the team's drivers, Pearly Haywood and Hans Cook, attempted to compete in an all-wheel drive machine. My competitors found out they were going to race an Audi and they took a look at the car the first time and they laughed and said, "You've got to be kidding me," this is a car we compete with, it looks a lot like the sedan that people can see. buy. In the showrooms, everything was new to me and I thought to myself, oh, that's the right thing to have towards the end of my career at 37, however, we didn't know where we were until we got to the first practice in fish. pulmonado, the first race on the streets of Long Beach, let's race with Cosas de Hans because it makes its qualifying race.

The five-cylinder turbocharged Cointreau is no match for the more powerful V8s on the straights, its advantage comes in the tight corners. I have to adjust my driving style because the trends and the drivers are programmed, powers that they do not have. Don't look too hard in the mirror if you're coming from behind, especially with a car like the Audi, you can brake very late, so they don't expect you to get that close to the brake so late. Oh, by the way, it was good, the fourth outing. race position Heywood surprises everyone with a second place, although most experts considered this to be beginner's luck on a twisty Dallas Street circuit when track conditions began to deteriorate and others slipped and slid.

Haywood uses superior traction to record first victory. For an all-wheel drive system in such a big production car race, the track was very slippery during the race and I just ran laps around the car because of the all-wheel drive system, I could put it anywhere on the track and get away. with doing almost anything that if you had tried in a conventional car you would have crashed. She follows it up with another victory on the streets of Detroit taking the lead on the final lap and then at Niagara Falls. Rally champion Walter Röhrl tries his hand at road racing. and he walks away from the grid taking three wins in the first five races, meanwhile one of the fastest men in the world in a rear-wheel drive race car is still struggling to get used to the all-wheel drive system.

I have to innovate. Hi, he's paying me a lot of money so I look like a fool. Watch her win a race. Now, suddenly, she realized everything and began to cry. First place. Cleveland, first place. Brainerd of the three in the Meadowlands is a secret. When braking with your left foot, you have this lack of turbo, you know, when you let off the accelerator and rev it again, it takes a little bit of time before the turbine blades build up a little bit of pressure, so on this type From the chicane we do not have downward changes.

I press the brake with my left foot and keep the gas on the right so I still have my back pressure and then when I leave the brake off the car rockets forward, this was it. Ohio Ray, ideal conditions for all-wheel drive. and on Sunday morning when they got up around 7 o'clock I saw the radio saying accident, that's what we need, the other one struggles to stay on the rain-slick track, enjoys a Sunday Drive, always has feet on the ground, a fantastic collection. and the irritable curves very, very good and with the four wheeler, you know, it was an experience of a lifetime, we always had a reflection, we could go up the hill with all the cars lit up with the engine on, so it was a lot of fun, I know the competition was beginning to be felt. that the Quattro were enjoying too much of an advantage, they accused the team of sandbagging, holding back in training, not showing their true speed and then activating it at the end of the race, the other teams are pushing for a rule change, we need all the help we can get.

To keep our Goodyear tires under our cars, we don't have the advantage of all-wheel drive bodies, we can't go toe-to-toe with the Audi if the V6 is due to our extra weight, there's no way we can. race at the end of the race with the Audis. I hope that the servants of the seal of the Constitution, the officials of the Sports Car Club of America, agree and decide that something must be done to negate the advantage of all-wheel drive that the Quattros are handicapped by with additional weight, smaller tires and a reduced price. turbo intake but he still doesn't flinch Scruffy Pete you can give us all the weight you want you can restrict our tires as long as we can drive a four wheel drive car we look great even with the handicaps the fights prevailed and for season finale Hello , I had won the manufacturers championship and the hard stuff captured the first places the strategy my driving strategy is to always go 100% as close as possible I stood in an adjustable racing car sometimes it's good sometimes it's good but if I'm so a career path where we have to be like this, who is the constant Haywood?

However, who brought home the pilot title? This strategy was a little different. The championships are a points game and you have to get the points in each race. You have to protect yourself. I found that it was very beneficial for me to make my move in the last part of the race, protect my car, keep it in good condition and then attack in the last part of the stage, as my two teammates, Hannes and Walter, would do the load for me. and in many cases were the competition of Trans Am officials, the Quattro lead seemed too unfair, they will not be invited to return next year, the next internal GTO in 1989, the Quattros enter the insta GTO championship series where the rules and different, cars are allowed tires wide enough so that others can have all the traction they need with only two driven wheels.

Instant officials feel competent. All-wheel drive Audis won't enjoy an unfair advantage here, but Audi engineers don't. intention to give up their advantage to build a pair of exotic tube-frame cars complete with a space-age telemetry system to monitor every aspect of their performance, we're all very excited because, as you know, we haven't had a new car . Ukraine has a chassis with a new engine, a fourth engine and then in the first official practice session we were almost losing the pace and we were there, you could hear the stones falling from the heart, they were happy and glad that the car was fine with the pace they gave you on the streets of Miami despite strong competition from other high-tech factory teams, the all-wheel drive Quattros again appear to have the advantage, impressing veteran ESPN commentator Bill Adam in the process, this car is doing things I've never seen. any vehicle look at this pull the interior last minute look at the car lately stable when braking no problem luck in the race turns against the team both cars are forced to leave the race the team must regroup we did not end up in Miami because our gearbox broke, we found out we had too much horsepower for our gearbox and driveshaft and then I have to say from my Miz that the next run to Summit Point was only about nine weeks in between, but I did it.

What the Audi team was able to achieve in these nine weeks was the most I have seen in my 20 years of racing, they were working so hard day and night that I felt like it was really working at some point, we are going to race more than an hour, period summit, the teams not only run for an hour, they travel the distance finishing first and second, it was that competition. I was very, very happy to win second place for the Audion 89 after Sammy's point, we went straight to Mid-Ohio, I really believe that,another victory that was a It was a little problem with my friend Wally Dallenbach because I ran him off the track, which I do very rarely in my life during my entire racing career, but I had to do it.

I saw that we were actually both traveling side by side and I saw a small car almost stopping on the left side of the track and I had to move to the right so as not to volley and as I turned at 120 my speed and hit right and left, oh Jesus Christ, whatever I did now and I was lucky. win the race at the end and on the podium I immediately apologized to Wally, but I think he owes me one so far as things are pretty much his way, taking a series of wins at Topeka Sears Point, shutout Glenn Lime Rock that Lagoon.

Dry and in some races like Sears Point, the toughest competition turned out to be his all-wheel drive teammate, Haywood. I was about thirty seconds behind my teammate Hurley Haywood and believe me, I had to do every trick I know to catch him. back and took him to the left at the end in a very hard maneuver, by then he had clearly still become comfortable with the car adjusting his own extravagant driving style to the all-wheel drive system to adopt my driving style to always drive the suspension in The cars were It's not so easy because my August style was a bit spectacular, like going sideways and people said that it has more flies and parks sanda on the windshield when driving so much sideways and it also helped me in my sports car a little smoother and more not so aggressive and not so how can I say not so nervous driving style demonstrated everything that teaches you how to drive a smoother car secret of speed until you have to have a sensor in a certain place on your body that is behind you, you know what I mean, and this sensor that you have and that you must have been in Popol, as we say Germany, I think this is the most important one.

It's a matter of going fast to feel the car sliding, which is why I don't have any posters on my driver's seat. If you ever look at this, you know, I just have a little layer of cotton or whatever, so it's and it's and it's kind of ohmic. I don't want to have any signs in the city because I don't have enough contact with them, I think you should feel it with your back when the car starts to smell everything and this sensor works especially in wet conditions, wet conditions, rain. That can instill fear in braver drivers.

What are drivers? They don't hate. We take a somewhat different view. It is the most pleasant feeling. It's nicer than Christmas parties, birthdays, and doing everything together to pass a cougar on this thing on the outside of the curve. Yeah, it's a great feeling, your own opinion, it's a lot of fun to drive these cars and when you can pass guys on the outside or on the inside it really doesn't make any difference and pass them with the speed that we have, it's really tremendous fun. the advantage paid off in the GMC truck, we make your economy a priority before building a single truck and our 1991 Sierra proves it with all-wheel drive, get 16 city and 19 highway, and with AWD models two wheels, get an incredible 17 in the city. and the GMC 22 Highway truck is no longer just a truck, it's quality on the road I'm the soldier I'm still smart I have a train I'm a soldier up to the challenge Los Angeles' resurgent Dave Winfield is proving he still has something left in him back, will face the home run power of Cecil Fielder and the Tigers live at 8:00 ET on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball After a decade of competition, all-wheel drive certainly proved to be an unfair advantage. in all conditions, outpacing the competition across the arid deserts of Africa, through the icy hours, through the tight, winding streets of Dallas and around the high-speed curves of Laguna Seca, power through any day. , the Koch brothers really excel in raw speed, their secret. was different, others were able to go out and set a blistering pace at the start, the tracks generally become slippery as the race progresses, tires lose grip and when conventional cars were forced to slow down, the Quattro but are consistently superior , the traction went to the track. attack when things got slippery, didn't they prove this to be a fair and unfair advantage? its secret of speed people can go fast in a race car for a lap and they can beat the race car and use the curbs and bounce off things and As they wear out I just attack and you can do it very easily and without effort and they just don't know what hit them and we were able to spray our power into four different corners, you know, so our tires ultimately lasted longer. and when conditions worsened with increased oil and some debris on the track, we had better traction on our car, this gave us an advantage.