Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"at Indy Alonso admitted he simply couldn’t beat Lewis"
"Excuse me," said my colleague Alan Henry, "but there's something I don't quite understand here." What was that? I asked. "Well," said AH, "the cars sometimes come round in a different order..."
This was last Saturday, and we - part of an F1 group that included Niki Lauda - were at Indianapolis Raceway Park for a night of sprint car racing. Front-engined, of course, in the time-honoured style, these creations that I love so much have about 875bhp, in a car weighing in at 600 kilos - give or take, therefore, about the same power-to-weight ratio as a Formula 1 car.
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