This is nothing to do with rotary engines  directly but car
racing technology is close to the same technology used in
aircraft. This has been true from the beginning of both.

The FIA want to cap F1 team cost at $50 million in exchange
for reduced design restrictions. I think $50 million is too
low and the new design rules are still too restrictive. Try $400
million and much reduced restrictions and one set of rules.
IMHO what they all are afraid of is one team with clever
innovation dominating the racing.

That is near what we had in Group Seven Can Am. Despite the lack
of design restrictions the best organized teams won the
championship anyway despite very clever innovations by
others. The racing was very popular and very interesting
to the spectators. By contrast this years Indy
500 with identical cars and engines was a boring parade
except for a few crashes. Same for GP2 and other spec classes.

http://tiny.cc/zGX2o
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8087722.stm


Paul Lamar

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