The vehicle that VDS and Graham found to be the most difficult to make a race winner was the very powerful and unreliable Interseries
Can Am type racer for the European season in 1973. With a 7.5 litre Chev. turbo engine the McLaren M 8E began life at Trojan Works and was greatly modified by VDS along with the engine by "Morand" of Switzerland. It was a powerful beast bravely driven by the very talented Teddy Pilette. As previously mentioned Teddy was very diplomatic when questioned about this car he would say it was "terrific"
but what he really meant it was a combination of the car's handling / braking being "terrible and horrific !"
I think between the M 22 and the M 8E turbo the VDS team got tired of the Trojan products and went on to greater success with the Chevron B 24 etc. in F 5000.
I did get to help Graham load up the M 8E Turbo from it's last visit to Trojan Racing.
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(Ken Hyndman photo )
It was a magnificent looking machine when it was running !
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(Paul Kooyman photo )
If you look closely you will note that every attempt was made to assist the driver when driving this beast !
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(Ken Hyndman scrapbook )