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Old 9 Feb 2004, 07:38 (Ref:867827)   #26
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Yeah, I'd probably agree with you on Castroneves. He seems to run on confidence, when he's on it he's good, when he's not it appears he's not interested.
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Old 13 Feb 2004, 21:00 (Ref:873575)   #27
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This is for the Greg Ray fans out there. From www.tracksideonline.com comes this report from the Phoenix tests:

"Greg Ray remained the surprise of the day. With only a handful of crewmembers, no track time since Oct., no updated aero mods, only 31 laps today and very little track time yesterday to get a handle on the track, he turned out a speed of 175.867 MPH, good for 6th on the grid. The Access Motorsports team was the second fastest G-Force, third fastest Honda, and fastest Ilmor Honda."

"They have been working mostly on getting there base-line set-ups and balance rather than looking for big numbers, yet they have still come easily"

Not bad, but will that kind of luck hold up in the race?
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Old 14 Feb 2004, 01:57 (Ref:873787)   #28
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"...The Access Motorsports team was the second fastest G-Force, third fastest Honda, and fastest Ilmor Honda..."
What does this mean? Are there Honda motors out there that weren't built by Ilmor?
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Old 14 Feb 2004, 03:36 (Ref:873813)   #29
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There were a handful of units built by HPD in Cali. When I mean built, I mean disassebled, reassembled and dynoed with a few changes in software. The castings, head work, internals are all from Ilmor, either from Michigan or England. These HPD engines were used in practicts and/or qualifing and only a few tracks. Actually, the HPD engines gave us more problems than the Ilmor units. I'd say 90% of the units we used in races were Ilmor engines. Rahal, Fernandez and Access only had Ilmor units.

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sounds like you know a bit about it weaver!
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Old 14 Feb 2004, 06:25 (Ref:873874)   #31
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macdaddy has a real shot at the podium!macdaddy has a real shot at the podium!macdaddy has a real shot at the podium!macdaddy has a real shot at the podium!
Thanks for that, Weaver. Always great to hear from you!
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Old 14 Feb 2004, 16:02 (Ref:874193)   #32
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There were a handful of units built by HPD in Cali. When I mean built, I mean disassebled, reassembled and dynoed with a few changes in software. The castings, head work, internals are all from Ilmor, either from Michigan or England. These HPD engines were used in practicts and/or qualifing and only a few tracks. Actually, the HPD engines gave us more problems than the Ilmor units. I'd say 90% of the units we used in races were Ilmor engines. Rahal, Fernandez and Access only had Ilmor units.
Heck, I knew all that!

Nice post Weaver, always good to hear from an insider!
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I think the former Mackie Motorsport team, Tomas Scheckter and Mark Taylor will win it
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