[rollei_list] Re: OT - Why not lift the ban on turbines

On Saturday, January 29, 2005, at 01:34  AM, Frank Dernie wrote:

> Turbines were banned simply to help prevent spiralling costs should 
> they prove to be competitive (ie if a turbine engine was necessary to 
> win and only 1 team had one it would ruin the racing until enough 
> others has designed and built one). As it happens, study shows turbine 
> engines to be unsuitable for racing cars for the obvious (to race 
> engineers) reasons.

As for spiralling costs, why not impose a limit on how much money may 
be spent on the engines?

And if the second sentence is true, why not lift the ban? Why not give 
those who espouse turbines a chance to prove that they are NOT 
unsuitable.

The very fact that the ban REMAINS in place seems suspiciously like a 
tacit acknowledgement that turbines ARE superior to ICEs in 
performance, though as they exist today they do, admittedly, cost more.

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