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Some car owners may quit because of USAC's ban

NEW YORK (AP) - The reactions have been mixed to the U S. Auto Club’s announcement that Ford-Cosworth engines, the turbocharged power plants that have been dominating In-dianapolis-type auto racing, will be banned beginning in 1982. USAC made the announcement Tuesday, noting that the British-made, eight-cylinder Cosworths will be supplanted Jan 1. 1982, by standardproduction engines or models derived from standardproduction types. Officials for the beleaguered sanctioning body, still locked in a struggle with the competing Championship Auto Racing Teams for control of championship car racing, said the engine decision was made early in or-

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der to give participants ample time to prepare. But Johnny Rutherford, the driver who won both the USAC and CART driving championships in 1980, said, “If (carowner) Jim Hall decides he doesn’t want to do it and hangs it up, it could mean I might retire as well.” Hall is the innovator whose ground effects Chaparral has virtually revolutionized Indytype racing in the past two years. “Maybe it is time for a change,” Rutherford added. “But that’s a big change. For the first couple of years, I’d like to have the tire puncture and flak jacket concessions,” he added. referring to the probability of a lot of blown engines and crashes until the reliability of

the stock block engines is ven. Jack Beckley, USAC’s technical director, shrugged off that approach, saying, “A few cars we had this year did have some problems. But, late in the year at Ontario, (Dan) Gurney’s car was running strong with about 20 laps to go. The car got tan-

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gled up with Bill Alsup’s and went out, but the engine proved it could go the distance. And it should get better with another year.” “What it’s going to do is cost the racing fraternity a great deal of money. You can’t take a

Chaparral and put a stock block in it.” Car-owner Sherman Armstrong said, “I had planned to go that direction (stock block) myself. We’re a little ahead because we’ve got a V-6 turbocharged engine ready. “It (USAC’s decision) was a

very wise move. Right now, we’re at the mercy of the Cosworth people in England. Engines cost from $45,000 on up. bi had one repaired that cost me $27,000. You can get a stock block for under $20,000. ’’ The move by USAC, which currently is scrambling to put

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together a schedule to compete with the one announced by CART, is part of a program begun in January 1979 to combat the soaring costs and dwindling enthusiasm for championship racing. CART’s current rules makes

stock block power plants com " petitive with Cosworths, * Jail CART officials, when contacted Tuesday, said they would prefer not to comment on the latest USAC move, which they said' they will not likely have to deal with until May 1982.

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