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David Leonard wrote:
This year is going to see a nice variety of alternate engines in the Sport Class at Reno. They will have 5 new
engines racing this year: two V-8s (an LT-1 and an LS-1), a Mazda rotary,
and an M-14 radial, and (drum roll please) a French diesel.
Don't know the kind of aircraft, except of course the rotary :-), and the M-14 radial that is going to be in the Radial Rocket that was featured in Sport Aviation a few months back.
NOW these races are going to start getting interesting.
With any sport really, the more rules you have, the less interesting it becomes. Rules limit choices of the participants, and eliminate the unexpected. Without the unexpected, it is just planes or cars going in circles, or people running back and forth across a playing field. For example, the restrictor plate in NASCAR was the dumbest idea ever as far as promoting the sport was concerned. I would have restricted the fuel available for each team, and made it 1/2 gallon less than what was used by the guy that won the last race. Every race would be a nail-biter. The guy is leading the pack by a half lap late in the race may just run out of fuel with a half lap to go, so you will NEVER have an anti-climax ending.
Allowing alternative engines into Reno will have the same sort of effect for me.
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