The Le Mans General Discussion Thread
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https://twitter.com/FIAWEC/status/449488706316288000/photo/1
Porsche 919 top speed 317km/h on Paul Ricard HTTT.
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https://twitter.com/FIAWEC/status/449502579375235072/photo/1
now even more.
Porsche 919 top speed 317km/h on Paul Ricard HTTT.
EDIT:
https://twitter.com/FIAWEC/status/449502579375235072/photo/1
now even more.
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- Hybrid_Tifoso
Now that the TS040 is unveiled, I can finally express my brief opinion on this year's factory LMP1 cars' looks...
Toyota's new TS040 looks horrendous, at least when you're looking at the front. The front and rear fenders are almost bulging, and the whole car doesn't look sleek and aerodynamic at all. The only thing that doesn't look terrible is the livery, but that's because it hasn't changed much from last year's car, whose livery isn't all that terrible. (I prefer it in red, though.)
The R18 e-tron quattro has the best livery, but since the headlights are placed too far apart for me, the Audi isn't the best-looking car either.
Porsche's 919 is the best looking car among all three IMO. But its livery is too boring and could definitely do with some colours.
The best looking car overall goes to either the R18 or the 919, although I seem to prefer the 919.
None of them matches the 2009-2011 cars in terms of appearance. The 908 and the Lola Aston Martin in Gulf livery are still my favourite modern LMP1s.
Toyota's new TS040 looks horrendous, at least when you're looking at the front. The front and rear fenders are almost bulging, and the whole car doesn't look sleek and aerodynamic at all. The only thing that doesn't look terrible is the livery, but that's because it hasn't changed much from last year's car, whose livery isn't all that terrible. (I prefer it in red, though.)
The R18 e-tron quattro has the best livery, but since the headlights are placed too far apart for me, the Audi isn't the best-looking car either.
Porsche's 919 is the best looking car among all three IMO. But its livery is too boring and could definitely do with some colours.
The best looking car overall goes to either the R18 or the 919, although I seem to prefer the 919.
None of them matches the 2009-2011 cars in terms of appearance. The 908 and the Lola Aston Martin in Gulf livery are still my favourite modern LMP1s.
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The 908 and the Lola Aston Martin in Gulf livery are still my favourite modern LMP1s.
This... Nothing beats the sound of the Lola Aston Martin either. That thing was insane!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/113136 Interesting idea of the WEC changing to a winter series...
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Results,data,etc http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/
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- HamiltonMP427
Does anyone know the outputs on the Porsche and Audi since Toyota were willing to tell the world theirs
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Trust me that won't be real outputs.
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- HamiltonMP427
What? You mean output? Since I only know the one, and I'm sure it wont be the on track output but I'd still like to know what raw outputs the others are making especially Porsche.
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- Furinkazen_54
Looking around at some things posted online, Porsche with 6MJ, and Audi 2MJ, but with a 4.0 litre engine to compensate.
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- GTP_RACECAR
As far as I can tell, the big three rarely have had any desire for a prototype and the only time they did was during the GTP era. There was a GTP Corvette owned and run by Rick Hendrick (which was a lola with Corvette cues and nameplate) but apart from two wins, it had little success.
There was also the Ford Mustang GTP, which first debuted in this form:
The Zakspeed Variation known as the Mustang Probe:
And the non-factory supported, Roush Performance developed car called the Mustang Maxum GTP
In all, only 1 win for any of these cars (The Zakspeed car) makes it abit less successful then the Corvette GTP.
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I thought the same thing mate. He went quiet for ages but was doing well in the Corvette and now AM snapped him up. He's always had the pace so it's good to see it's finally been recognised. His friend and ex-team mate Juan Barazi (Who has an INSANE car collection including a DB4 Zagato and Zondas among others) drove the AMR a couple of years back, which can't have done him any harm.
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Hated the GTP Vette as much as I dislike the current DP Vette that has hardly anything to do with the actual car Chevy tries to sale. Keep it with the GT-LM car since it's an actual production corvette built and then transformed for racing.
Because they have other places where they make innovation and actually Chevy does have a prototype, but it cheap, archaic and called a Daytona Prototype. If Chevy, Dodge and Ford wanted to create the type of innovation as well as lineage that more so European and Japanese makes do then they would go to the P1 class. However, if they want to sell their sports cars off the back of winning Le Mans and trying to make a link that is connected to the race cars they're derived off then they stick to GT which is what they've always done. All three of them. The three current manufactures have done both the premier GT class and premier LMP class, though I don't know if Audi doing LMGTP counts as premier GT class since I think GTS was the premier class during that time frame...
Because they have other places where they make innovation and actually Chevy does have a prototype, but it cheap, archaic and called a Daytona Prototype. If Chevy, Dodge and Ford wanted to create the type of innovation as well as lineage that more so European and Japanese makes do then they would go to the P1 class. However, if they want to sell their sports cars off the back of winning Le Mans and trying to make a link that is connected to the race cars they're derived off then they stick to GT which is what they've always done. All three of them. The three current manufactures have done both the premier GT class and premier LMP class, though I don't know if Audi doing LMGTP counts as premier GT class since I think GTS was the premier class during that time frame...
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