RACE ENGINE TECHNOLOGY 165 June/July 2026
- Intro: The editor - For too long, technical regulations have focused on powertrains to equalise performance and improve racing. Is it time to consider the aerodynamics instead?
- Upfront: Race powertrain news - Formula 1 revises its powertrain rules and eyes up a switch to V8 engines, INDYCAR suffers a software glitch and JCB targets 350 mph at Bonneville with the twin-engined, hydrogen-fuelled Hydromax
- In conversation: Raphaël Caillé - The Swindon Powertrain boss talks us through his engineering career and explains why focussing on one touring car team is better than supplying most of the grid
- Dossier: Polaris ProStar HO - The inside story of the Polaris ProStar HO inline four race engine that has racked up an impressive series of wins in off-road racing
- Focus: Lubricants - Engine oil is the lubricant that keeps the heart of an ICE beating under the most extreme conditions
- Challenge of: Hillclimb - Britain’s short, sharp hillclimbs require innovative powertrain development to reach the top
- Focus: Advanced alloys - The highly stressed parts of race engines demand ever-in-creasing levels of performance. But can advanced alloy manufacturers deliver with one eye on environmental sustainability?
- Digest: Mazzei Formula five-rotor engine - With a background in music theory and sound, one man has lovingly developed a 3.25 litre turbocharged rotary ICE that sounds like a high-revving Formula 1 V10 from the 2000s
- PS: Eight ways to Sunday - As F1 heads towards a new V8 era we look back at the first V8 engine that ever raced in the world championship, and the tiny workshop in Bavaria that built it