Jay, I took Chuck's comments to mean that the class not embracing the 493 caused the availability of the engine via Tony Murphy to end much more quickly than planned, not that we had anything to do with Rotax not putting them in sleds anymore. I wish we were that important!
Cory Jay Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The reason that the 493 is out of production has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with our use or non use of the engine. Rotax stopped producing the engine due to snowmobile marketing issues. The same reason there are no other production 500cc 2 stroke engines being produced for snowmobiles anymore. Thanks ... Jay Novak -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Whitling Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [F500] F500/F600 Proposal .. I blame solo guys Regarding the comment below .. Chuck Certainly you're entitled your opinion, regarding solo participants here. IMO the things that derailed the 493 launch center around (1) the poor conversion from metric to imperial measure of a Rotax dyno chart, (2) the lack of people willing to donate anything to do dyno testing, (3) the lack of anything more than subjective and incomplete data by the team that was given/loaned a 493 for testing. One last thing .. I do not recall anybody in the debate proposing a 50 lb weight penalty to the 493, as the board did. Maybe the board actually thought about it and felt it was quite important to make sure that they didn't invalidate the 494s which even today are regarded as very good motors for the class. McAbee, Chuck wrote: >My >observation of the 493 debacle, holds the vocal SOLO participants >responsible for the 50 pound weight penalty that was applied to the >engine in RACING and effectively killed it as a commercially viable >endeavor. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of jwhit.vcf] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/733 - Release Date: 3/25/2007 11:07 AM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/733 - Release Date: 3/25/2007 11:07 AM --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
