Apparently this is the only turbine-powered car to have won a race: LINK
"The Howmet TX is powered by a helicopter turbine. Only two examples were built by the Bob McKee and Ray Heppenstall partnership, to compete in the 1968 endurance world championship season. One of the Howmet TX’s major technical innovations was the command system for managing the exhaust gases (waste-gates), designed to provide instantaneous response in both acceleration and braking phases"
The exterior looks like any other race car from that era, except for what look like rather over-sized exhausts.....
Check out the video of the car qualifying for the Spa Classic 2011.
Impressive, but must be really strange hearing that turbine whine all day long, and having no concept of changing gear, be it manual or automatic or modulating brakes!
"The Howmet TX is powered by a helicopter turbine. Only two examples were built by the Bob McKee and Ray Heppenstall partnership, to compete in the 1968 endurance world championship season. One of the Howmet TX’s major technical innovations was the command system for managing the exhaust gases (waste-gates), designed to provide instantaneous response in both acceleration and braking phases"
The exterior looks like any other race car from that era, except for what look like rather over-sized exhausts.....
Check out the video of the car qualifying for the Spa Classic 2011.
Impressive, but must be really strange hearing that turbine whine all day long, and having no concept of changing gear, be it manual or automatic or modulating brakes!
