Right now race car tech is inadvertently the leading source of engine development in the world. Without race car tech we would not have proven beryllium aluminum  alloy rotors and other advanced materials for  our Wankel's. Diamond Like Coatings (DLC) where first used in race car engines and are now used in the Mazda RX8 Wankel engine.

Car racing is still a crucible of advanced engineering ideas despite efforts to change that. The question in the race car community now is: "Do we want real car racing or do we want a driver circus at the expense of burning more precious oil?"

This was why I gave a talk about turbo compound at the race car symposium.  Once  TC  is  successfully used on racing cars  it should filter down to passenger car engines as it is already doing  with large diesel engines. Eventually the engineers will discover that the exhaust valve is holding back the true potential and they will hopefully discover the rotor ported Wankel is the best TC engine in the world.

Bear with me for a awhile as I am going  to be publishing stuff about it for the next couple of weeks along with the regular rotary fare. To get things done we must be patient and persevere.

For these reasons alone it is important that car racing survives so there will be some articles  along those lines as well.

Paul Lamar