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12/11/2021 10:55 am
Take the Pepsi Challenger to wash down the "White Castle" and you have the big winners of the AAR open-wheeled competition in 1981. Dan Gurney's Pepsi Challenger Eagles, AKA the 8100, Indy cars went totally contrary to the aerodynamic designs of the time, borrowing from highly maneuverable fighters of the day to create twin vortices to flow over the rear wing to generate the down force. It was called "the upside-down F-16". He also shunned the turbo Cosworth engine that were almost uniformly used, for a push rod, stock block Chevy V8. It was an American car with an American engine that it was arbitrarily banned for the following season which upset Gurney for a long time. It was also the last time a stock block, push rod engine would win in Indy car racing.
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12/11/2021 3:14 pm
What an interesting story.