Not to hijack, but something interesting and oil-racing related.
I recorded the last 8 hours or so of the 24 Hours of Le Mans last weekend (basically from dawn to the finish) and have been working through it as time allows. Last night I was watching the part where the Pratt & Miller Corvette GT2 team had to rebuild the better part of the back end of their GT2-class leading car after the f'ing moron in the Peugeot ran him off the road in the Porsche Curves.
The Corvette has a large oil sump and cooler(s) in the rear part of the car. I'm sure that at least one of them is for transaxle oil, and I think there's one for the engine oil too (or at least that's what Dorsey Schroeder was saying). Although the team is pretty prominently sponsored by Mobil 1 (right there on the nose of the car! see below), when they were filling/re-filling the sump after the rebuild, the gallon bottles of oil that they were pouring into the sump were decidedly NOT Mobil 1 bottles. In fact, they were nondescript white bottles with all labeling removed.
Now I'm not saying that they weren't using Mobil 1 (although race cars using oil other than that which sponsors them is not particularly uncommon), but it did seem a little odd that they weren't pouring the oil out of Mobil 1 containers...
Pat Mulry, TARP Racing #67
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