Why would the cam chain pull the oil to the top end, any more than the bike version would... ? 
Could understand it for longitudinal mounting reasons, as opposed to across the frame.
Yep, a bit of journalistic licence there (you know, the type you find round the back of a male of the bovine species).
If it's dry sumped, you just scavenge the oil from where it ends up. I'd be very surprised if the chain drags much oil up from the bottom end if the crankcase is being evacuated effectively by the scavenge pump, but if it is, surely you'd just add a scavenge pipe from the head that's getting drowned in oil?
If it takes 20 minutes of running for the problem to occur, then the rate of oil pickup is very slow. It would surely be trivial to arrange a way for that small amount of oil to drain back, be scavenged, or not end up there in the first place.
I could quite imagine there would be other challenges with making a central cam chain work on a V8, though, and I suspect that's why they switched.
And I didn't understand the bit about the H pattern box being preferable to a sequential.
Article explanes the low(for a bike engine) rpm limit though. Pussys! 
Yep. more BS. If you're whinging about driveability what are you doing sitting in a seven that revs to 10k+? Get a job at "Car and Caravan" instead.
I got talking to a guy at a Westfield sprint at Goodwood who was campaigning a bike based V8. Engine owed him £16K, apparently.
Did it ever accelerate off the line, though.
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