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Cart Indy ran more than just ovals there must have been another courses that required filling on the other side I would imagine. I vaguely seem to recall seeing this car at the Indy museum but I may also be crazy.
Henri is correct. CART cars of the time had fillers on both sides. One side was blocked off with a plate when not needed, depending on what side the fuel was coming in.
In the thread it has been mentioned what may have happened if Mario Andretti could have been involved.
Interestingly, as far as I can figure out, mario has neven been approached or even been considered. With the rumors already going on in 1985 and 1986, I have never heard that he was targeted by Ferrari for the drive.
While, on the other hand, he is known to have been interested to become part of the Porsche project that took off in 1987. But the info I got on that was that Mario politely withdrew his interest once he had seen the 1987 Porsche 2708 about which he supposedly made a comment that that car was based on 1984 technology and then the wrong kind of that technology.
If Mario really wanted to become a part of either the Ferrari or the Porsche project remains a doubt for me. At that time he was at an age at which he kne he had not many years on top level left anymore. So sticking with a team that had top material available, (Newman-Haas) appeared to be a more safe bet for obtaining success in the years to come then having to assist in building up an entire new team that relied on exclusive equipment. Which could be an advantage of course, but alos working against you as history has proven.
But I must say, Mario Andretti, driving the Ferrari 637 at Indy, now that would have been something!
But also: Mario had been involved in an elarier Ferrari indy project that eventualy never resulted into hardware being built.
Carbon wrote:Henri is correct. CART cars of the time had fillers on both sides. One side was blocked off with a plate when not needed, depending on what side the fuel was coming in.
There goes one of the conspiracy theories. so sad
Formula One's fundamental ethos is about success coming to those with the most ingenious engineering and best ..............................organization, not to those with the biggest budget. (Dave Richards)
Carbon wrote:Henri is correct. CART cars of the time had fillers on both sides. One side was blocked off with a plate when not needed, depending on what side the fuel was coming in.
There goes one of the conspiracy theories. so sad
As strange as it may sound, though the definitive approval seems not to exist or has never been released, there are some good reasons to believe that the Ferrari plan was much and much more serious then generally assumed. Even if it requires you to think along a non-direct line of thinking.
Took me a while before I could do so myself too by the way.
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... =4&t=15312 
so sad