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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">LE MANS</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">10/06/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Mopar</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Mystery</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/oparMystLE%20.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">David Legangneux indicates that Auto Hebdo are suggesting that there were two different Mopar engines on use at the Le Mans Test Day at the Magny-Cours test session - obviously different by the sound. The usual engine has the... usual sound of a US V8 engine and the other one has a "higher rpm sound", like the difference between a V8 and a V10, but the 'other' Mopar is still a V8. This is the engine that had a failure at the Test Day.<BR> <BR> There is no hint of an official explanation about the difference. Laughing, de Chaunac has expressed the view that "it's a V10!". More seriously, an engineer has suggested in Auto Hebdo that it's due to "new exhausts", but saying that with a 'malicious smile'...<BR> <BR> Or is it related to the plane of the crank. This is only speculation, of course...<BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>