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Tootsall · 03-07-2007, 10:09 PM

Turbine cars WERE allowed in the Indy 500. When I was taking my introductory training as a new engineering grad at Pratt & Whitney the field service guy teaching us how to tear a PT6 apart was the guy who helped Andy Granatelli with his effort in 1967. Parnelli Jones led 197 laps of the 200 lap race before a bearing failed. USAC banned the car the next year for fear that it would throw competition out the window.

03-07-2007, 10:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
Tootsall Fortissimo User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Yee HAW! Posts: 4,641	Re: Who Killed the Trubine Car???? Turbine cars WERE allowed in the Indy 500. When I was taking my introductory training as a new engineering grad at Pratt & Whitney the field service guy teaching us how to tear a PT6 apart was the guy who helped Andy Granatelli with his effort in 1967. Parnelli Jones led 197 laps of the 200 lap race before a bearing failed. USAC banned the car the next year for fear that it would throw competition out the window.