Posted for Jack Cowell <jackcowell@optonline.net>:

 Gentlemen – after following your series of email exchanges and with all
 due respect to you both, I think your point about “racing” has been
 misconstrued.
 
 To me, "racing" is about competing to win in the context of a specific
 contest.
 
 Therefore, to conclude that racing results can be reduced to testimony
 to who has the best blower system is a stretch. Here’s why.
 
 Regardless of the venue (air, sea, or land), winning has two central
 components --"pilot" performance, and mechanical performance. I will
 leave out luck and cheating and other even less finite factors in an
 effort to keep this posting less of a tome. And again it is central to
 this discussion to anchor those performances in event specifics.
 
 As an example, what wins in a ¼-mile drag race would be shrapnel in
 another contest. And the reaction time of the winner, while critical in
 a sprint would be a rounding error at Daytona or Indy or Le Mans.
 
 Of course, once the winner is decided, then the marketers get involved
 in leveraging the competitive success into product development and sales
 successes. When taking into account the specifics of the “victory”, all
 I would say is “caveat emptor”.
 
 The point is with so many variables, to look to "racing" as an
 endorsement of turbo supercharging vs. supercharging -- or vice versa --
 as an affirmation of either system is of very debatable value. -----