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Interesting move, Nascar will begin limiting engine supply next season. Currently in the top-tier teams, engines get torn down and rebuilt entirely after each event, essentially using 36 engines throughout the entire season, one for each race. Often times even more than that if an engine is swapped or a back-up car is used.

Next season all races will be single-engine events, so no more swapping engines halfway through the weekend. If they do, they'll start from the rear.

On top of this, NASCAR is mandating that full-time teams use 13 of their engines for the series for two full race weekends, explains Frontstretch. That engine will be sealed so that no one can update or refurbish anything on it in the meantime. It goes into the next weekend exactly like it came out of the first.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascar-is-...1802638231

I'm confused on this, so 13 engines for two races each. That's 26 races. What about the other 10 races lol? Nobody has explained that part yet.

Of course, in Nascar races you can start last and still win the race. Happens all the time. F1 isn't quite the same in that regard.