It is almost axiomatic that the heyday of any technology dependent sport, particularly any form of motorsport that involves internal combustion, is its very beginning. No one, not even the most brilliant of engineers, knows what will work — or, more importantly, what will not — in the beginning. Invariably they will, until they find out better, try to adapt some form of existing machinery to whatever the new rules might be. Oh, the same axiom says that eventually, as all the engineers learn pretty much the same lessons, said solutions will coalesce on but a precious few — witness the virtual hegemony the V4 enjoys in MotoGP these days. But until they do, their search for speed looks pretty much like the wild, wild West of crankshaft configurations.
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