http://rotarynews.com/node/view/156

I know that's old news, but some interesting reading.

Buly


"This year, the Grand-Am sanctioning body, outlawed all Rotary Engine
Powered Race cars at the Daytona Rolex 24 Hour Race. Section 3-1.6
Rotary engines are not allowed (Rolex Series only). We take this as
another one of those misguided and ignorant decisions, by rules makers
and sanctioning bodies that do not and care not to understand the
Rotary power plant. The Rotary engine has been a mainstay of endurance
sports car racing around the world, for 3 decades. Endurance racing is
one of the last great places where the inherent values of the Rotary
Engine can still shine through, at a world class level of competition,
although it's been severely regulated/restricted of late.

We wanted to ask all Rotary enthusiast what they thought of Grand-Am's
decision to ban Rotary Power, at this, one of the most famous, 24-hour
races. Please send us your thoughts and comments, and we will compile
them and send them to Grand-Am. Let's get Rotary Power
back on the endurance circuit! We want to show Grand-Am and all Road
Racing sanctioning bodies, that Rotary enthusiast play a major part
in supporting sports car racing and we want to see Rotaries back in
the game! Click the link below to leave your feedback."

"Rotaries being banned from almost every form of motor racing at some
point or another since its induction is a true statement of superiorty.
I honestly think that all the major manufactures except mazda itself
have aligned with the sanctioning bodies to ban rotaries in fear of
them putting all their hi tech piston engines which directly effects
the show room floors since racing technology is there to prove itself
at the race track in conditions that would never be seen in streets
(legally) and if a rotary engine goes in and cleans up and proves
itself then the billions of dollars in manufacturing techniques,
maintenance practices, and overall money invested in recip engines
as a whole might seem as a waste. lets face it the rotary is awsome,
where do you get a 1.3liter that pulls 9g's likes it, wants more,
and spanks engines with 3 to 4X the size and does it reliable since
there is only 3 moving main parts on the 2 rotor? it would almost be
like when everyone decided to switch to metric, all the mechanics
all had standard, cars were made with standard hardware. However
back to real deal here racing bodies who ban something just cause
its such a effective design are in fact holding back technology and
moving forward, if they honestly believed that recip engines were so
great and had nothing to worry about then they should allow rotaries
in racing such 24hr events!"

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