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Hall of Fame

Please note that there is no single "motorsports hall of fame", and that the halls of fame that do exist in motorsports are populated by people and not cars. As such, I've deleted a claim that this car's wins at Lemans and Sebring directly place it "in the hall of fame". -- Mikeblas 19:03, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

"Restrictor Plate"

I am debating what to do with the link to the article "Restrictor Plate" that appears in the sentence regarding the R8 and its intake restrictors. The Restrictor plate article is not particularly relevant, since it deals expressly with the carburetor restrictor plates used in NASCAR racing, rather than the type of restrictor generally found on sportscars. Would anybody object to removing this link, or is it better than nothing, since the linked article does at least explain the basic principle involved?

Well, I just epanded the article to list other types of racing, too. --Matthead 04:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Racing car template

I've had a stab at a template for racing cars (see template:Racing car) to summarise the usual data. I've used the F1 templates as a starting point and applied it to the Brabham BT46 article. If anyone's got an interest in this, please have a look at the template and modify or suggest changes as appropriate. After a few people have had a go at it and we have something we're happy with we could start to use it more widely. Note that it's not meant to be specific to F1, by the way. Cheers. 4u1e 10:41, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

E70 million/year R10 costs

I highly dispute this number. I'll suggest this is the running cost and the initial development cost. As the development costs would be pro-rated throughout the car's racing lifespan it certainly shouldn't be lumped into year one's total cost. The numbers simply don't add up to the costs to run the car for a year. $90+ million for a year of racing the R10? What's it spent on, gold and caviar encrusted steering wheels? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mulsannescorner (talk • contribs) 18:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC).

It seems right, I kept only the $15M/year sourced figure; here is the previous statement :

€70 Million,<ref>''Sport Auto'' (German car magazine), ISSN 1158-2111, April 2006 issue</ref>

Cost?

Now you know how much it is worth to manufactures to win at racing. This puts the private team at a disadvantage. An acquaintance, from where I live, races in several classes at this level and they have little hope in beating the factory teams. This has been the bane of racing since it began, "the guy with the most money wins". Most of the time. I was at the GP of Houston last weekend and in the first few laps the P1 Audi diesel quietly pulled away from the P2 Porsche. In the end the lower class Porsche won. To me the important aspect of this is to show Americans that the diesel is a viable way to power a car. The common rail turbo diesel can provide economical power for the kind of vehicles Americans want to drive. While the plug-in hybrid is limited by the cost of the battery, the diesel can be built now and save 40% on fuel usage and more on CO₂ emissions.

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