RACE ENGINE TECHNOLOGY 157 February/March 2025
- Intro: The editor - How the EcoBoost V6 twin turbo is being pushed to a new level as a track car and is punished in the desert
- Upfront: Prodrive at Dakar - RET talks to Arthur Shaw, director of engineering at Prodrive, about the challenge of powering the Prodrive Hunter and the Dacia Sandrider in the quest for outright victory on Rally-Raid events
- Dossier: Ford/RYE Mk IV 3.8 litre twin-turbo V6 - Mike Magda investigates how RYE developed the V6 turbo for Ford’s latest hypercar, leveraging race-bred knowledge and expertise of the base engine accumulated over more than ten years
- Focus: AM materials - Matt Grant looks at new materials developed specifically for additive manufacturing, which enables parts with complex geometry to be created in increasingly shorter timeframes
- eRace: Toyota on hydrogen - Toyota’s hydrogen internal combustion racing programme has come a long way since it began in 2021 with a 1618 cc, in-line, three-cylinder turbo, as Andrew Noakes finds out
- Insight: The history of fuels in Formula One - John Coxon traces the science and alchemy behind Ferrari and Shell’s enduring partnership
- Focus: Piston coatings - Protecting pistons working hard under extreme conditions is a tough task, as Matt Grant reports
- Expo: PRI - Andrew Noakes highlights some exciting products and services of interest to motorsport professionals
- Focus: Heat shielding - Today’s heat shields are often engineering works of art made from space-age materials, but how do they keep components cool? Matt Grant reports
- PS: Porsche LMP 2000 - The Porsche Heritage and Museum team have just resurrected the 1999 unraced Le Mans car