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www.highpowermedia.com Race Engine Technology 18 Issue 27: December/January 2008 Issue 28: February 2008 THE COMMUNICATIONS HUB OF THE RACING POWERTRAIN WORLD USA $20,UK £10,EUROPE e 15 ISSUE027 race engine TECHNOLOGY DEC/JAN2008 www.highpowermedia.com DEC/JAN 2008 HENDRICKCHEVROLETR07 •RACEENGINEOF2007 •RCRSUPPLYCHAIN •ENGINEBASICS •FOCUSVALVES • IREDWORLDSUPERBIKE NickHayes: LIFE INSIDERCR HENDRICK R07 Exclusive NASCAR Chevrolet insight ELECTRIC POWER WINS Toyota’s hybrid is race engine of the year BACK TO BASICS Fundamentals and empiricism in engine design 00RETDECCover 2.indd 1 10/12/07 19:15:06 Preview: Autosport Engineering 2008 opens with new tech on display in England’s motorsport heartland Profile: Hendrick R07 How the NASCAR power leader is coping with the latest Chevrolet Report: Race Engine of the Year How the Toyota Hybrid beat MotoGP and Le Mans engines in ’07 Insight: Back to Basics Professor Blair on ‘Fundamentals and Empiricism in Engine Design’ Motorcycle: MotoGP Fuel Games Surveying the 2007 MotoGP field, Neil Spalding asks: what is inside those airboxes that makes the difference? Supply Chain: Richard Childress Racing Anne Proffit goes inside Richard Childress Racing’s engine division to find out what makes it tick Focus: Valves How valve suppliers view current and future tech Expo News from suppliers to race engine builders IRED: World Superbike The 2007-8 engine builders Q&A: Ulrich Baretzky The architect of Audi’s pioneering Le Mans V12 turbodiesel fields your questions about its technicalities Profile: Shaver WoO V8 With more power than a Formula One car, the World of Outlaws provides spectacular V8 racing on dirt Special Investigation: Cryogenics Increasingly components are being frozen to extreme temperatures – can this really benefit them? Motorcycle: Yamaha’s Secret? Yamaha is taking a different engine development route in MotoGP – could this lead to direct injection? Focus On: Pistons The piston is the heart of the engine – we look at 11 racing applications to check the state of the art Insight: CRD Pontiac CRD’s V8 won the 2007 Grand-Am series; we find out how the company developed its components The Challenge Of: Pro Stock As NHRA Pro Stock engine speed has increased, we look at how all aspects of the valvetrain and porting have kept up IRED: USAC Midget The 2008 engine builders