Comments on: OAK Racing confirms plans…and Judd engines

By: heath peterson

heath peterson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:10:23 +0000

i thought we were gonna talk about the audis for this year darnt

By: deepblue

deepblue — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:18:16 +0000

Now I recall Mazda MXR-01 that had Judd power under Mazda tag.
Anyway it would be a good choice for OAK but a little bit pity to miss Inline4 Turbo from P2 on Engine variety viewpoint.
How is KSM team’s choise of engine for ’10season.

By: Dave Henrie

Dave Henrie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:36:33 +0000

The Problems with the Mazda are not AER’s but the ACO. They chose a fuel to suit Green interests that is not completely compatible with small turbos. BP produced a test fuel for Team Dyson at the last two rounds of the ALMS. The test car outlasted and ran faster than the authorized car with the mandated fuel. If the ACO would bend on the fuel used or the composition of the current fuel, then the Mazda/AER packages would be just as reliable as the Judds.

FWIW, the Judd DB that is so dominant right now, blew up more often than it finished during it’s first year of competition.

By: rick

rick — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:10:44 +0000

Why doesn’t Mazda just work harder and fix the reliability issues?

By: Bamba

Bamba — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:59:29 +0000

So if Mazda is allowing them to switch to (more reliable) judd engines are they going to have Judd homologate them as mazda engines?

More importantly will the Dyson team be able to switch as well. Please I hope so. They will finally be able to at least have a reliable car to fight with highcroft.

For some reason I sense a P1 program brewing up with the oak racing team. They own the pescarolo chassis business, they’re switching to 3.4L V8 engines, the same engine that will be used in P1 next year…It would be easy for Mazda to simply pay them a fee to have their name tagged on all that fine hardware.