I believe that the engines Hall used were snowmobile engines which I would
not consider as small.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Crain [mailto:tomcrain@gulftel.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:44 AM
To: vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Early Downforce
It was only a short blip in racing history, disallowed by a rules change =
but Jim Hall's "Vacuum Cleaner" Chapparalls used a small engine driven =
fan together with flexible skirting to suck his cars down to the track. =
In its short life it proved very effective in allowing higher cornering =
speeds.
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