LOADED FOR BEAR; Audi isn't the first to try a diesel on the racetrack.(Competition)
AutoWeek, January, 2006 by Davidson, Donald
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> Byline: DONALD DAVIDSON Audi's plan to field a diesel-powered car in this year's Le Mans 24 Hour is causing word to spread that this will be the world's first diesel-powered race car. Not exactly. Besides the diesels that race across the Dakar desert or up Pikes Peak, how about the nonstop run by a Cummins diesel in the 1931 Indianapolis 500, or Fred Agabashian's accomplishment there in 1952 that saw a Cummins sit on the pole? In the summer of 1930 Clessie Cummins of the Columbus, Indiana-based firm approached Eddie Rickenbacker about taking advantage of the new rules ...
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