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06-21-09, 07:36 AM
Power enhancer may be answer
By Curt Cavein
Posted: June 21, 2009
NEWTON, Iowa -- Honda officials don't have the answer to the IndyCar Series' passing problem on larger oval tracks, but they believe they have something to mask it. :laugh:
A power enhancer similar to the push-to-pass device used on the turbocharged engines in the Champ Car World Series has been offered to the Indy Racing League.
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The system has been tested at several tracks, most recently last week by Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan at Chicagoland Speedway.
Dixon said it added 5 horsepower and 200 rpms at Chicagoland. :shakehead
"It works," said Dixon, the reigning series champion, Saturday at Iowa Speedway, site of today's Iowa Corn Indy 250. "It makes a half mile per hour per lap at Chicagoland."
Dixon compared the increase to how the European-based A1 Grand Prix Series utilizes such a system. In that series, engines typically operate at about 80 percent efficiency.
"And the push-to-pass gives a driver the last 20 percent," he said.
A Honda official said this device added a 5-mph burst during a test at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, site of next week's race.:confused:
Hmmm, I'm no Rocket Doc, but I don't think 200 rpm and 5 hp will achieve that...
By Curt Cavein
Posted: June 21, 2009
NEWTON, Iowa -- Honda officials don't have the answer to the IndyCar Series' passing problem on larger oval tracks, but they believe they have something to mask it. :laugh:
A power enhancer similar to the push-to-pass device used on the turbocharged engines in the Champ Car World Series has been offered to the Indy Racing League.
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The system has been tested at several tracks, most recently last week by Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan at Chicagoland Speedway.
Dixon said it added 5 horsepower and 200 rpms at Chicagoland. :shakehead
"It works," said Dixon, the reigning series champion, Saturday at Iowa Speedway, site of today's Iowa Corn Indy 250. "It makes a half mile per hour per lap at Chicagoland."
Dixon compared the increase to how the European-based A1 Grand Prix Series utilizes such a system. In that series, engines typically operate at about 80 percent efficiency.
"And the push-to-pass gives a driver the last 20 percent," he said.
A Honda official said this device added a 5-mph burst during a test at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, site of next week's race.:confused:
Hmmm, I'm no Rocket Doc, but I don't think 200 rpm and 5 hp will achieve that...