2017 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship - General Season Discussion ThreadSports Cars

[catamount39]

Cadillac was extremely lazy too, but they at least did a good lazy.

 

[mwoodski]

The red car sitting next to it.

Make it pretty like Mazda did and quit halfway thru the season because the car is junk, or stick a fake hood on it and try not to ruin the aero balance and focus on the important stuff- horsepower and torque.

Quit because Mazda was tired of Speedsource sucking, not cos the car itself was total trash.

Joest v Penske will be very, very good.

 

[flip55]

Racer.com: Penske to enter Petit Le Mans in October, looks like with a P2 spec Oreca/Gibson.

http://www.racer.com/imsa/item/143293-acura-arx-05-to-test-at-atlanta-as-penske-enters-petit-le-mans

 

[IforceV8]

Quit because Mazda was tired of Speedsource sucking, not cos the car itself was total trash.

Joest v Penske will be very, very good.

The livery wasnt bad.

 

[Michelin Man]

I actually quite like the look of it so far, very striking, looking good so far. Though granted at the moment it does look a different front end has been grafted onto the Oreca, but it still looks pretty good to me.

However I'd imagine, like others have suggested, that it's just the initial design/press car, and that as it's taken to the track it'll develop it's own more original aero package. Will be interesting to see what the final livery looks like to...

Though now we have a better idea of the Acura, I'm still eager to see how the whole Joest Mazda program develops, as the whole team deserves the performance to match the cars looks. Either way, definetley shaping up to to super exciting between now and next year .

 

[mwoodski]

 

[IforceV8]

Honda is in the biplane business now I guess.

 

[trustjab]

Top side exhausts?

 

[mwoodski]

Yes, it's the old 3.5l P2 engine from 2016.

 

[trustjab]

Live now with a very blurry video

https://www.facebook.com/TeamPenske/

 

[IforceV8]

So much for Penske Verizon internet.

 

[IforceV8]

More from the launch car http://www.racer.com/imsa/item/143294-imsa-acura-arx-05-unveiled#!5CvVe

 

[mwoodski]

Two best angles, imo.

 

[catamount39]

I love the obvious Oreca nose still underneath. Surprised they didn't use red IMSA plates.

 

[mwoodski]

Its a bit different than the standard Oreca.
http://cdn.oreca-group.com/wp-content/gallery/2016-oreca-07-lm-p2-test/2016_ORECA07_FirstTest_03.jpg

 

[DesertPenguin09]

 

[IforceV8]

How about a more current picture.

 

[mwoodski]

It's still the same as that testing picture, jsut with a buncha decals all over it to cover up details lol.

 

[IforceV8]

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2017/...etes-two-days-of-testing-at-road-atlanta.html

 

[01GTP]

BoP discussion/defending w/ Geoff Carter. Long audio (38 minutes) but a lot of info.

http://scunleashed.com/2016/scushow125.mp3

 

[AnthonyD1993]

Might just be me, but I think the Acura looks way better in bare carbon than it did with the livery they used to reveal the car.

 

[DesertPenguin09]

Wait a second, if that giant thing is over the front, it's covering the lights a lot. Hmm...

 

[Michelin Man]

I'd probably agree too, and I liked it when it was revealed in it's livery. Does loom really mean in bare carbon. I think a relatively dark and moody colour livery combo would work really well with it, would work to it's rather striking style. Or perhaps something like the pearlescent factory red/blue the GTD NSX's run currently, think that'd work well...

Wait a second, if that giant thing is over the front, it's covering the lights a lot. Hmm...

In fact it looks like the bare carbon test car is running with no headlights at all from what I can see, as comparing it with the press release version, the lights sit on that piece of aero at the front. So I'd guess they're running without them being in prototype form, and with day-time running they're not needed perhaps.

 

[DesertPenguin09]

Makes sense. Still ugly.

 

[IforceV8]

Today at Paul Ricard, Oreca 07

Road Atlanta test.

 

[DesertPenguin09]

Okay so they also angled the front fenders back a bit and extended the nose? I think the extension is just to have a place for their "Acura" piece.

 

[IforceV8]

The lower portion of the nose looks like it is stock Oreca to me.

 

[catamount39]

It's more stock Oreca, than the Nissan is stock Ligier or the Cadillac is stock Dallara. Like, at least Cadillac incorporated (to an extent) sharp lines across the car and overall gave it a Cadillac feel, and at least Nissan managed to make the changes to the nose more than a sheet of carbon fiber...but this is literally a sheet of carbon fiber on the nose of the Oreca.

 

[mwoodski]

I dunno, I clearly see a very different nose aside from the upper wing panel. The splitter and crash box has to stay the same as the standard Oreca, so that can't move. The middle and brake vents are in the same spots, but the openings are different(and way bigger on the Acura), and the Acura nose is much different to the stock Oreca.

Here's the thing with the DPi cars that are going to be made from now on. The standard chassis are designed to be as effective as possible to the regulations. No styling. With the DPi's you're gonna see more in this style as they don't want to take away too much from the standard shapes because they are the most aero efficient.

The Cadillac and Mazda were designed first, with the standard Dallara and Multimatic designed afterwards.

 

[IforceV8]

I dunno, I clearly see a very different nose aside from the upper wing panel. The splitter and crash box has to stay the same as the standard Oreca, so that can't move. The middle and brake vents are in the same spots, but the openings are different(and way bigger on the Acura), and the Acura nose is much different to the stock Oreca.

Yeah the brake ducts have increased in size, the upper outside corner looks like it 1-2" further out than stock.

Other than 2 vertical supports that have been attached to the tip of the Oreca beak to support the Acura identity bar that nose is stock Oreca,