Scuderia Glickenhaus P4/5 Competizione

I'm just curious has the P4/5 & now the P4/5C venture created a different perspective towards your future collecting and collection of Ferrari? The P4/5C venture has to have had an effect on you.

 

I know I read something about a tell-all book in that....

 

...then time will tell who fell. And I have the feeling it will be a few teams at the Ring!

 

It would be really something if someone like Jim would have controlling interest in Ferrari after they go public.

 

Controlling interest in Ferrari is under FIAT and such a money maker for them I doubt they would even consider a buyout. IF Ferrari ever went public/private and announced an IPO with Jim being the major shareholder I would cash in some accounts I have to become a shareholder. Then I would call Jim on a monthly basis to discuss potential motorsports entries. Enzo never answered my calls but I bet Jim would!!!

 

Regarding your new theme song, they really would be gold diggers to get those numbers. In the city W-F next week, but agenda is too tight to swing by, will next time.

 

Wow Jimmy!

Ferrari pissed you of REALLY BAD! So bad that you're making plans to completely ditch their power train and go TDI. Well ROCK ON!!!

How about this?

Keep the current car as is, and make her "twin" the one running on turbo charged detonation. That way the one with the street legal chassis will have an easy time filling up at the gas station, and you can race the crap out of the one running the TDI unit. No sense leaving and empty chassis sitting around, "know what I mean Vern?"

Whatcha think?

 

Oh YEAH!

How silly of me to forget.

Duuurrrr Hahahaaaaa.

Rock chips, I wanna see all the rock chips on the bumper.

 

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i must say that the vid put a smile on my face. good job. says it ALL !!

kind of sad tho..

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I keep one of those Architect rulers here on my desk, but who needs one on their dashboard? Especially one that has a few bite marks in it? Bizarre...

>8^)
ER

 

Man oh man does that thing STICK!

I just spent over the better part of the last hour comparing your "fast lap on the Nordschleif" video against the "Ferrari 599XX Nurburgring Lap Record", and in the back tight twisty section you are pretty much dead nuts even with the 599xx. And in a couple parts where I could get the video sync'd up well you even pulled out just a hair! In the straights it wasn't even a contest as the 599xx just rocketed away. But that is to be expected. Those restrictors are under powering you guys bad! But frickin-A Jimmy! You weren't joking when the drivers said it felt like an under powered LMP car. I can only imagine what it would be able to do if you where allowed to run it uncorked. You have GOT to run it with the gloves off.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

 

The proverbial 'deer in headlights' image of the guy on the walk is priceless.

 

Today I saw someone with a P4/5 C vest in Monaco...

 

Did you say hello?

All the best,
Andrew.

 

I didn't really get a chance as I was driving by whilst he was on a sidewalk.

 

I see

 

Alternative fuels had been necessary for race organizers to keep politics and media calm. Don't remember exactly, but Diesel engines had been allowed at Le Mans long before, but there was no interest because they had been not competitive. So the ACA amended the rules more and more until a point where Audi saw a reasonable chance. However, they never would have done that if not a large part of their road cars were Diesel powered. Also Peugeot has a strong Diesel background, so it was no surprise that they followed this route. Nowadays the Le Mans regulations prefer Diesel engines so heavily that gasoline cars have no chance on the overall win at all.

There was a similar situation with the turbos in F1, although the formula did allow them at a ratio 1:2 they were not competitive. The ratio in other race categories was even lower at 1:1.4. When Renault finally decided to go "turbo" it took rather long until being competitive and reliable, but after a few years a 1.5 turbo engine had double the power of a 3 litre atmospherical one (even higher in qualifying). A similar situation we now have with the LM Diesels.

Also at the Nürburgring 24 h there was always a Diesel class, but although interest grew more and more over the last years a Diesel was never a winning car. Because the potential winners are typically sports cars with no Diesel market.

For prototypes this doesn't matter, because they have no roadgoing equivalent, thus the marketing targets the make as such. An ideal partner would be Mercedes-Benz, they had not only been the first car maker putting an Diesel engine into a passenger car as early as 1936, but also today a very large part of their passenger cars are Diesel powered. And neither F1 nor DTM can be used as marketing platform.

 

In 1998 Schnitzer Motorsport won the Nurburgring 24 hours with a BMW 320d. The car was not the fastest but it still won because of it's superior fuel efficiency.
Rules for the 24 hours were different then today. Powerful GT cars were only allowed from 1999.