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Notes From The Road
Underground Racing's Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Gallardo Tempts with 1,000 hp
By Mac Morrison/Autoweek Magazine
The only way to get rid of temptation, Oscar Wilde wrote, is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing.
Just ask Izod IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal, age 21, who was sick during the second week of December--less than 12 hours before we met in Charlotte, N.C., to drive Underground Racing's twin-turbo, 1,000-plus-hp Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4. A middle-of-the-night text message described symptoms in detail (we'll spare you) and appeared to wipe out weeks of planning.
Then we read Rahal's last line: "But I can't miss this!"
An internal combustion engine needs three precious ingredients to create power: air, fuel and spark. On the path to more power, the automotive performance enthusiast will endeavor to squeeze more air, fuel and spark into the engine in order to get more power back out of it. More power is always welcome, but as with any performance modification there is always a tradeoff. As anyone who has thrown a few more logs on a fire knows, the more fuel, air and spark added to any combustion situation, the more heat produced.
We receive many questions about zinc levels in today's motor oils from the owners of racing or high-performance vehicles. See our answer to this question in our regular feature, Ask Mobil, and a table for comparing the phosphorous levels in Mobil 1.
Nine volunteers from the Drive Around the World Expedition began a 16-month intercontinental journey on November 1, 2003, to raise funds to help cure Parkinson’s disease. The LONGITUDE expedition traveled 28,000 miles, almost two-thirds of its 41,000-mile journey, before changing the engine oil. Their Land Rovers were using Mobil 1. Read more ...
