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Originally Posted by Jim Caughlin
You need to read the article on the Ford site that Tony Stewart wrote about racing the CJ electric car. According to him (an expert on drag racing), the only difference that he noticed was that the electric version did not torque over during acceleration. Considering that the electric motor was attached to a conventional automatic transmission with a driveshaft and rearend, I'm pretty sure the reminder of the chassis was not aware of where the power came from. To make matters worse, no one at Ford was technically aware of the way that the car was constructed to catch the error in his comments and let the press release go out as is. Also, to avoid embarasement, they didn't report the ET's. Not to say it isn't fast but maybe they should put Jeff Lane who knows how to drive it in the car for the exhibition runs.
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Could someone link the Ford article, I seem to not be able to find it, might be a good read.
Jeff Lane or Pat McCue would be good choices to drive the car, with all the development time they have with the car. Don't forget all the time with the eCOPO, also. Pat has tremendous knowledge in electric cars. They could just put Bob Tasca III back in the car. He ran 8.12, I believe. With time car should be able to run in the 7's.