CSX 2286 has the least amount of race history, if I remember correctly; given that it was pressed into service very late due to the extended chassis business.
Walton's coupe is much like every thing else he owns---drop dead flawless. Despite his penchant for really pushing the cars hard on the track (and he is a very good driver, too) the presentation of his vehicles are always first rate.
When Paul brought this subject up, I thought the Coupe in question might be Robert Sarrailh's sanction coupe (sort of a French McCluskey look-a-like). An outstanding car by any measure, and it was at GW a couple of years ago. Phil Remington told me, after his ride with Sarailha around the GW circuit, that the coupe was a "heck of a lot better than anything we ever built at Shelby's". Not a bad testimonial.
Sarrailha, with Le Man drivers Patrick Tambay and Henri Pescolaro, drove the winning CSX 2402 to victory at GW last year, fighting off two E-Type Lightweight "cheater motor" Jaguars in the process. That Cobra was so well balanced you couldn't believe it. Ernie Nagamatsu told me that when he was at GW in '01 with his Cobra, the Sarrailha team had three cameras under the car shooting pictures of the chassis at high speed. The car uses a 289 cid, Weber equipped, 10.5:1 compression engine. The handling is outstanding.
