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Now though, everyone has battery hybrids and the regs are more and more favoring small turbocharged gasoline engines. In a way I can't fault that, because that's what the real world is gravitating to. But also in the rear world, a 5 liter V8 Ford Mustang can get as good a gas mileage as a lot of V6 engined sedans can, and you can have your pick of engine with that car, from a turbo 4 all the way up to whatever Ford Performance/Shelby American decide to do for the GT500, and even the GT500 made almost 700bhp and got 30mpg highway.
A big, but low-revving engine can get as good a fuel mileage as a smaller engine can if driven right. Same with hybrids or diesels. There's more than one way to do things in the real world, and that should show up on the race track, instead of regs forcing teams into a box on powertrain strategy or, as with F1, making the cars look much the same, again because of rules and there being one way that seems to be the best way.
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