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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: SC - (Aiken in the 'other' SC)
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The 917 is on that list.
Basically it dominated endurance racing so it wasn't fun for anyone else so they changed the rules to decrease the engine size. At that point they went to CanAm and made that series no fun for any of the other types of cars so they changed the rules so they weren't allowed enough gas to run it. Then 12 years after it was introduced, without the benefit of years of development, one last 917 went to LeMans and ran as high as 10th!
The 917 held the 24 hour distance record until 2010 and was just a thing of beauty.
And most importantly: Steve McQueen drove one with complete gritty coolness!!!
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