Swindon XE - Ultimate XE?

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Originally Posted by mowgli

the rover v8 could not produce reliable hp, so the grub screws stopped it running its bushes. thus it was an illegal performance mod. thus it was a cheat.

the benetton was an illegal car, it was in a time of no traction control, no launch control, no 4 wheel steering, and it had them all...

ps. the s40 was 3 seasons later than the cavalier with the reverse head engine....in the middle of the arms race.

The Rover V8 probably started making the racing look silly and thus they found an excuse to ban it, most motorsport engineers dont aim to just win anything, they aim to get banned :p

The Benetton you speak of I have not heard about then, one I am thinking of ran a ford HB engine and was said to have better traction control than it's competitors, when in fact it just had torque where it was supposed to.

The S40 was also 4-5 seasons after the Calibra DTM, and 9 years after the Ford HB F1, both of which had sealed crankcases and dry sump systems. Like I said, 99% of engineers suck at copying simple, effective, old ideas. Even the latest tech in F1 is old news, F ducts were first banned in the 80's