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Old 10-20-2008, 10:27 AM   #22
WildBillyT
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How about this guys, who is your favorite famous automotive legend and why?

Best Engineer/Driver/Car Owner to me is Roger Penske. He doesn't do his own engieering work anymore, but he was the guy who figured out triple adjust shocks, hydro-jackers(hydraulic in car weight jackers), won a lot of races on his own(mostly lower level, he was better at setting it up than driving it), has owned winning teams on every level of north American open wheel, stock car, and road racing, and he still acts as chief and team strategist for his American LeMans series Porsche RS Spyder program.

Basically, the guy has seen it and succeeded from every side of auto sport possible.
American?
Smokey/Donohue/Penske if we are picking multiple people.

Just Smokey if we are picking one.

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