[DeTomaso] Fiberglass or carbon race Pantera roof ?

[Göran Malmberg]

If we would just like to accelerate, it's HP counter weight that is
critical, but if we also want to turn, so are high placed weight bad. 
So the roof, windshield, rear window, engine hood and rear wing are 
things that must be made lighter. One example, we build the rear hood 
of carbon fiber, so give the same effect as a lowering of the engine 
3". I can imagine that if we replace the roof to one of carbon fiber 
so it gives the same effect as a lowering of the engine with 5/8". Or 
we can say that 9p less weight is tranferd from inside to outside 
wheels at 1G cornering power. 
One of the big problems is to make a good assessment of what is 
important, we do have limited resources of money and time, and that 
there are rules in all racing, and it comes to finding a middle ground 
that gives the best results. Myself I think it is very useful to 
be able to test and adjust the aerodynamics on the track, something 
that few of the smaller teams does. This is a job that takes as much
time as to build the whole car, something you rarely plan in during
the initial construction period of the car. The first time out the 
car is nothing but a piece of "raw material". 
Goran