What is this about NASCAR taking 9 different engines to their R&D Center?

Question

Why is NASCAR doing this? What are looking for or hoping to find?

Answer 1

i am curious to see whats going to happen and what nascar finds.

Answer 2

This sounds as though 9 different engines may represent most of the major engine builders of engines for NASCAR: Roush-Yates for Ford, Evernham and Penske for Dodge, Earnhardt-Childress, Hendrick for Chevrolet, JGR and TRD for Toyota, and then other engines used in the NNS and NCTS...just a guess.

Answer 3

I wonder if NASCAR has any decent technicians

Answer 4

See the question "Breaking news"

Answer 5

Well they are likely trying to get the people that keep saying Toyota has more horsepower to be quiet. We'll see what the tests show.

Answer 6

it's a post race dyno test. it's not the first they've ever done - maybe one of the larger ones, and definitely the most "televised" given all the hoopla about toyota and their horsepower advantage, but it's nothing that wasn't planned and hasn't been done before.

what they are hoping to find is exactly how much horsepower are the various engines putting out. everyone is guessing that they will find that the toyotas - particularly those from jgr - put out more horsepower than the other toyotas as well as the other manufacturers.

what they're going to do with that data, who knows?  toyota had their engine approved before the season began and gibbs has been able to tune the heck out of it, as well as figure out some things they could do to their bodies to make them even more competitive. as they said during the post-race, "reigning them in" in some way (especially after approving their engines earlier) would be essentially hypocritical and unfair, as no rules have been broken (that we know of, and i'm sure they've been looking). it would essentially be picking on a team that has just managed to get ahead of the curve while staying within the lines nascar has set down.

no one made such a stink last year when chevy won 26 of the 36 cup races last year (and hms won 18 of them), but that's the way it goes - enough people start to whine, nascar feels they've got to "do something" - especially if has to do with that "furrin car." of course nascar won't do anything the teams ask of them regarding the COT, but god forbid toyota, or more specifically gibbs, come out doing better than hms, childress, or the man i USED to respect - that whiner jack roush (remember when he had five cars in the chase a few years back - who complained then? again, no one.). and to top it off, chevy supposedly wouldn't be able to get their R07 engine package ready and approved and into the nationwide series till next year anyways, and dodge and ford have essentially nothing ready to go.

Answer 7

They are looking to see if there is a edge in one motor or another and try to make things even if there is. I'm glad nascar is doing it because its been a one sided show so far. I have nothing against Toyota but they do seem to have a advantage.