Just for some information. At Sebring, the Caddys had a 7900 rev limit. During the race, Angelelli won the race, but only by a scant margin. He only turned a 2:12.9 lap time on the way to the win. But his team mate Pilgrim came from the back of the pack and turned a 2:10.xx time which was faster than his qualifying time. When the SCCA downloaded the Data Acquisition, they did the "Theoretical best lap" using the data and found that Pilgrim could do a 2:07. best lap and did it using only 7000 rpms.
SCCA said that if you can do a 210 lap only using 7k then that will be their new limit. And since they turned 3 seconds faster than any car out there, they also got a 100 pound penalty and restrictor.
So there had to be a clear decision by the Caddy team to run one car slow.
And we all know that if they could have run 1-2, they would have not run the 2:10 lap but they would both have run the 213 fastest lap. This clearly indicaes that they would have run just fast enough to win but not give up track position while at the same time run slow.
It may be called Sandbagging but I call it "Planining".
LG
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