And in the follow up to my previous post, I bring my results and verdicts to the masses.
We'll start with the older of the two, The Deltawing sponsored by Nissan at Le Mans 2012. (mouthful I know
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The Deltawing started out in life as a design replacement for Indycar and when Indycar went with the Dallara design choice over the Deltawing, they applied for a Garage 56 invitation for the 2012 Le Mans 24 hour race.
Having been accepted, they set about building it for the race, using the Carbon fibre tub from the previously raced and completely hopeless Aston Martin AMR One, a 1.6 litre turbo 4 cylinder engine from a Nissan Juke making around 300hp and a dry weight of under 500kgs.
In reality it's race was ended after being knocked off the track by one of the returning Toyotas, but it got some vindication at the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta where it finished 5th overall.
It's fastest time at Le Mans was a 3:42.612 in qualifying, around 2 seconds slower than what I managed in GT6 which was a 3:40.359.
Driving the Deltawing is different and tricky, you have to be quite smooth with your steering inputs as the back can step out without warning and is tricky to catch unless you're on top of it instantly.
As for the cornering, you have to unlearn about putting the front of the car on the corner apex due to the narrow front wheelbase, you try and put the front of the car on the apex like you would in a normal car and your rear wheel will be on the other side of the kerb and you'll likely unsettle the car quite badly.
It's twitchy nature combined with a lack of power does effect its usability for most players, but unlike the Nismo you can tune the car more to suit you a little better and if you do tweak it right, It's a great endurance racer with good fuel economy and very low tyre wear. 👍
Now on to the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo, Easily the most unorthodox car to attempt Le Mans in the last decade (more so than the Deltawing.) with it being a Front engined, Front wheel drive LMP1 racer.
With a bigger engine than the Deltawing, a 3.0 litre Twin turbo V6 making roughly 500hp in reality with an EXTRA 750HP on tap from the flywheel KERS giving it a theoretical max output of 1250hp.
The HP in GT6 is 634hp after an oil change and I don't think that's including the power from KERS as at around 110-120mph the KERS kicks in and you'll definitely notice the difference in acceleration.
Now you're probably thinking its still a tyre shredding FF racer and yes it'll happily be so if you want, but it's still grips up quite well despite the stock setup making it slightly stiff over bumps.
Like I said earlier, With the Deltawing you can do more to modify it as you can adjust the gearing, tweak the downforce, bolt on a more powerful turbo etc, The only things you can adjust on the Nismo are some parts of the suspension, the differential and the brake bias and that's it.
Despite that, Its more predictable to drive and much faster at Le Mans, the Deltawing touched around 190mph whereas the Nismo was hitting over 210mph and it's fastest time backs that up with a 3:26.656.
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And another thing the Nismo has over the Deltawing? It survived the 24hrs to take the chequered flag.
(yes I know it didn't get classified and they entered more than 1 car so hardly fair but still...)
Don't consider the Deltawing a bad car as it'll still blitz any endurance race in GT6 due to its less reliance on pitstops, but if you want to be different and yet still be competitive in a predictable machine, The Nismo GTR LM is the one to pick of the two. 👍
