They were using every trick they could come up with!
Bill Jepson

Hi Bill n Paul,
is this the same bunch that object to the rotary because it does not
"comply with the rules"?
just wondering, Dave McC

I don't know about that but they have limited us to a turbo
3 rotor or 238 cubic inches while they allow turbo 800 cubic
inch piston engines. Not to worry we can still beat them.
For 15 minutes at Reno we should be able to get up
to 800 or 900 HP from a turbo 3 rotor running on 100 LL
aviation fuel and ADI :)

Since they upped the piston limit to 800 cubic inches we might
press upon them to allow a turbo four rotor.

Reno is a not a good measure of an aircraft engine anyway.
Almost any engine at any power level is good for 15 minutes.
The early Rolls Royce V12 R engine in the early 1930's Schneider
Cup racers  had a TBO of five minutes.

BTW One of the secrets to
going fast in Reno is cut the weight. The drag is doubled in the
turns (and you spend the majority of the time in the turns) due to
lift induced drag. If you cut the weight this factor is greatly
reduced. A good carbon fiber design will do the trick.

What we should enter is the 500 miles Dayton Ohio to Oshkosh
Wisconsin air race that  presently has no limits on rotaries.

Also BTW does anybody have experience hitting up corporations
for race sponsorship money? I think a few Mazda dealers
near OSH or Dayton should be interested. All we need is a few
hundred dollars and they get their name all over the airplane.
We have $600 in the race prize fund currently. A nice round
$1,000 would be nice :)