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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 856: The 1987 Maxxum GTP Was The Strangest Car Scott Pruett Raced

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

“The Maxxum just always felt like a fight," Scott Pruett said when answering the question of the strangest car he raced. "You were always arm-wrestling the thing. Always.” The 1987 IMSA GTP creation, run by Roush Racing, looked unique, used a bunch of different engines, and it just didn't work, as the American racing legend tells The Marshall Pruett Podcast in a short and winding interview. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0

Today in the Marshall Pruitt podcast, we have something I recorded probably four to five years ago, maybe even longer.

0:11.4

With Scott Pruitt, also known as not my brother, unrelated, but do love him like a brother.

0:18.6

It's on the topic of the strangest car he's ever raced. It's the

0:23.4

1987 IMSA GTP Maxim chassis, M-A-X-X-U-M-A-X-U-M, run by Jack Rausch and the Raush

0:33.6

racing team using a variety of engines. I happen to see it race and I can

0:41.1

indeed tell you that it was a bit strange so definite accuracy on the part of

0:48.6

young mr. Pruitt of Roseville California I'm gonna leave the rest of the

0:53.7

conversation to him, which wanders

0:56.4

all over in the sub 10-minute conversation that we had. A lot of this about his career, other things

1:04.2

that were strange and choices he did not make, and we just kind of go through some of the

1:09.8

strange things and interesting other things that he drove through his career.

1:13.2

So maybe not the most concise and compact from being a single thread that gets woven from start to finish.

1:21.0

But nonetheless, if you didn't know about the Maxim GTP, now you do.

1:25.5

And if you did, well, here's a little bit more.

1:27.8

Brought to you by Cooper Tires, the Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com, and Bell Racing Helmets

1:34.1

USA here on the Marshall Pruill podcast.

1:39.8

The Maxim.

1:42.0

And that's another, and that's another, like, I mean, here I had Al Holbert offer me the low and bow ride

1:49.5

in a 962, and I stuck with Roush to drive the maximum.

1:55.7

So.

1:55.9

So that was 87-ish, I think?

1:59.1

87, 88, yeah.

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