Originally Posted by
Lagonda
Well how did I come to this idea ? Simple I saw that in the beginning a lot of racecars like the early straight 8 engines and a lot of Ferrari engines uses small displacements (1.5 liter V12 etc).
You shoudl read back a little earlier in racing history.
The late teens and 20s saw the grwoth of engine CAPACITY to get power.
Culimination being the Fiat 27 litre racer.
So racing has played with the all parts fo the size spectrum
Long answer needed and no time, but yes you can to all of the questions raised so far. The why and why nots are little more involved
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