IMHO, you can do all the AI modeling you want, but lacking current telemetry/GPS tracking, video footage, or even reliable accident reconstruction prior to the impact area, ANYTHING would be dependant on a lot of supposition and guesstimates.

The GIGO factor, Garbage In, Garbage Out would still result, and we'd be no closer to an answer ... and even then, SO WHAT!

Yes, technology is better, and we should celebrate items like FIA mandated crash testing, six point harness, Hans devices, roll and halo structures. Even then we have incidents like Hubert, van 't Hoff, Bianchi, Wheldon and Wilson. We've advanced safety based on each loss.

In the long history of Formula One, amid flamboyant characters like Teddy Yip, Lucky Castner, Flavio Briatore, Mike Hawthorn, Colin Chapman, etc., Irishman Eddie Jordan rose above the throng. While other team owners sought to make their cars fast or dominating, Eddie's oft expressed desire was to make racing "sexy!"

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If you do a search for his images, most will be splashed with his signature yellow everywhere, and invariably they will include two or more bountiful babes. The scrappy former Dublin street-trader also captured imaginations with his lucrative, swashbuckling sponsorship deals ¨C including one when he managed to convince delivery firm DHL to repaint their entire international fleet of white vans and planes with his famous ¡°Jordan Yellow¡±.

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Eddie once recalled: ¡°We were like cowboys in the Wild West, chasing around finding money.¡± Few were his equal.

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He was also famous for what even back in 1990 was described as an ¡°uncanny ability to spot young drivers and maximize their potential¡±.?Those he gave big breaks to including world champions Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill, and Michael Schumacher ... rescuing the future seven time champion from being a cast off who all teams had passed on for any of their series. Other F1 winners to drive for him included Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barichello, Ralf Schumacher, Jean Alesi, Martin Brundle, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Rubens Barichello.

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He discovered Katy Price as one of his pit girls, guiding her from tabloids to SuperModel, to TV, music and other varied careers to the heights of celebrity. She recalls: "He was a very charismatic and fun character to be around whose humor, just like himself, was unique. It's a great loss to the F1 family and he will be missed around the Paddock."

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Jordan was a competitive driver in F2 and F3, before turning his talents to team management with his expansive promotional skills. Keen musician Jordan even played the drums in a rock and roll band ... which should surprise no one!

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It's fitting that Eddie survived one more St. Patrick's Day and I'm sure he left with a song in heart and a pint on his lips.

Power Unleashed

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Trailblazers Who Energised Engines

with Supercharging and Turbocharging

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by Karl Ludvigsen

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In his new three-volume work multi-award-winning author Karl Ludvigsen takes the reader behind the scenes of the roller-coaster ride of supercharging, turbocharging and even more exotic power-boosting inventions throughout automotive and aviation history. Supercharging in all its forms is the most exciting feature ever created to go under the bonnet of a motor car. Blowers were rare yet highly desirable devices in their early heyday of the 1920s and ¡¯30s, an era in which compressors graced supremely glamorous and race-winning cars. They also won respect from aviators eager to exploit high altitudes.

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Prolific use of forced induction in the air in World War 2 brought forth the many engineering geniuses who populate these pages. Having seemed abandoned on land, supercharging found new acolytes who perfected blowers for road and track. They rescued the turbocharger to open new avenues for high-pressure boosting in the 1970s and ¡¯80s. Into the 21st century turbocharging has found its way into more and more cars to enhance both performance and fuel efficiency.

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Power Unleashed is a three-volume work of astonishing depth and detail. Greatly respected for his ability to communicate information while telling a compelling story, Karl Ludvigsen explores the global saga of supercharging and turbocharging. Complete with reader-friendly technical descriptions and magnificent illustrations, he introduces the fascinating individuals who bet their businesses on boosting. This is a landmark work in the histories of the automobile and aeroplane.

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This book comprises three hardback volumes in a slipcase.

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?395.00

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Just to say that my story about the Bentley -- discussed some time ago -- is now viewable on the web.

You should find it here:

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Happy reading and viewing and thanks for your help!

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Karl Ludvigsen

Scoles Gate Farmhouse

Hawkedon

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Thank you, Bill

I just came across this 43-minute clip on YouTube which covers the development and effort of the Cummins Diesel in the 1952 500.? It is of course a corporate movie, but nonetheless it is informative and well done.?? There is a lot of coverage of Don Cummins, Frank Curtis and Freddie Agabashian, and good coverage of others in 1952 500.? You will see Cummins mechanics wearing bow ties while working at the shop.? You will recognize many from the racing community.? When Freddie comes into the pits to celebrate his record-breaking qualifying run, you will also see a young Ed ?Elisian in the back of the crowd surrounding Freddie.

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Question:? Is it just me, or does it appear that the Cummins car ran wheels/tires that are taller than what everyone else ran????? If I recall correctly, most of the cars from that era had 16¡± wheels in the front and 18¡± in the rear (although I believe the 1956-58 Novi¡¯s ran 18¡±/20¡±).??

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Anyway, you will enjoy this film.

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Bill Blaylock

Dallas, TX

Age and Treachery's flower fund got outbid again ...

(... but Hugo still can bid on his aerodynamic 1911 Laurin & Klement Type S2 Sportswagen later this month!)

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