2016 Titan XD Cummins- TFL

thomasmnile wrote:

otrfun wrote:
There's a very good reason why you'll never see a diesel engine in an Indy 500 race car.

Well, Not Quite True ;)

Neat story! Who woulda known! I certainly didn't.

Interesting to note the Cummins diesel was allowed a huge displacement advantage over the gas engines for that particular race. Cummins didn't bring the car back the following year because they fully expected Indy to change the displacement rule to balance the playing field.

Don Cummins wasn't disappointed. Cummins got a lot of free publicity and a huge sales boost by taking advantage of that displacement loophole and winning the pole position. All said and done that was their true end goal. He was happy.

If that turbo inlet hadn't clogged, who knows, the Cummins diesel mighta won :)

Thanks for the link, thomasmnile!