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Originally Posted by Coach Ep
Net zo raar als Frentzen, Wendlinger en Kreuzpointer zeker? 
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Interessant om het nog eens opnieuw te lezen. Naast enkele typos, sprong voor mij deze passages wel in het oog:
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For 1991, Bernie Eccelstone and Max Mosley had taken control of the World Sports Car Championship and ushered in a new set of technical regulations which essentially transformed Group C into closed-wheel Formula 1 racing. The lightweight (750kg), high tech and high expense cars ran the same 3.5L engines as F1 cars and now raced in a sprint format.
This new direction led to the demise of the World Sports Car championship, but this is a subject for another time. What was cool about this new set of regs was that some pretty wild race cars were built; machines which were every bit as fast as that era's Formula 1 cars.
The class of the field at the beginning of the season was the Ross Brawn designed Jaguar XJR-14. It was unashamedly a two seater F1 car in concept, with a bubble top design that moved the concept of Sports Car forward by several years. It used a radical double rear wing -- something which the competition had failed to think of. Powered by a Cosworth Ford HB F1 engine, the car was some 4 seconds a lap faster than its rivals at the season's opening Suzuka round!
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Hij heeft deze truc dit jaar met de BrawnGP wagen gewoon opnieuw gedaan met de diffuser... Geniale kerel die Ross Brawn.