Don't know if you guys know this about David Vizard....but a lot of his early racing success was with.....Chryslers! Specifically the Chrys 4 cyl Avenger in the UK. 26 wins out of 26 races in two years with a OHV engine against OHC competition.
What struck me was he actually was a scientist before his racing hobby sort of took over his career. His scientific background was used in his development of engine building. He did carefully constructed design of experiments to create the curves and mathematical equations that could be used in the design process. Anything else I found was more of a recipe book where a build of items were found to work well together but it could not really be explained why. Being a design engineer myself the later drove me crazy. I just kept saying "why", "why", "why" in my head will reading their book/article.
