[rollei_list] Re: OT - Why not lift the ban on turbines
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:52:56 -0500
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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