The engine will be based on the Porsche RS Spyder racing engine that demonstrated its impressive performance and efficiency through multiple Michelin Green X Challenge victories in the American Le Mans Series, the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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You really did slip past those kids playing touch football, or that moose, or that dog racing the engine and losing.
Mr. Collier's younger brother Andrew is a machinist in the engine department at auto racing's Hendrick Motorsports.
Its engine, positioned in racing-car style behind the driver's seat, was a Ford, so spares were easily available and relatively cheap.
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So with racing cars: the greater the engine power, the greater the potential drag that the designer must then seek to overcome.
Hacking into automotive microprocessors from the likes of Intel, Bosch, Siemens and Motorola was once the province of engine aficionados and the street-racing set.
If you want a tamer version of the sport, you can go to Skip Barber Racing School in Lakeville, Connecticut, where they run miniature racing cars powered by a 135hp Dodge Neon engine.
In its day, this 340hp with V12 engine was the top dog of sports-car racing (Carroll Shelby himself drove one).
And beyond that, are racing fans really willing to give up the roar of combustion engine race cars they have known and loved for decades?
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Selected titles have also been optimized for 3D such as Mini Motor Racing, developed by The Binary Mill and powered by Unity Engine, which also supports LG's Dual Play feature.
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While his brother, Andrew, became a machinist in the engine department at Hendrick Motorsports, one of the major NASCAR racing teams, Sean followed a different path.
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The V8 engine gets 767 total horsepower using flywheel technology at the wheels and a six-speed racing transmission with paddle-shifters at the steering wheel.
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