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The December 2012 edition of RCE has an interview with John Judd: http://gb.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue...&prev=sub&p=24

Judd explains the problems of the Pescarolo 03.

They had a torrid time in qualifying, put the engine in, and it then stuck in first gear going out of the pit lane, so Emmanuel [Collard] tried to do a lap of Le Mans in first gear. It is an unusual thing to do. At some point the engine quit. From the data clearly he did a sensible job and he was not in a hurry to get back, so he spent some time on the rev limiter and some time not, but we saw the engine temperatures rise and it all came to a grinding halt.

Judd fitted a spare engine that was set up for another of its teams.

We took off the inlet manifold, scavenge pump and switched to Pescarolo specifications. When they went out, it was on seven cylinders because one of the injectors that came with the airbox assembly from another engine, and which was working perfectly well, decided not to work any more. We started the race on seven cylinders. The thing was slow. It came in, we found the problem and fixed it and the engine was fine. Henri had a big b!tch about the engine, but it was a normal DB V8 and we got it back after the race, put it on the dyno and have used it as our dyno development piece. When it retired, it had a power steering issue or something. It was not slow on the straight, it was four clicks slower on the straight than it was in qualifying. The power was slightly better than when it left us, so I won't take any sh!t on that one.