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Project Libra had the Ford EcoBoost engine in the ALMS a few years ago, so they had to have made at least 1 of them
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There's only one team backwards enough to buy that engine, and that's speedsource Mazda!
Seriously though, Ford have an engine that fits straight into P2 regulations without issue, it would just need to be detuned, and well that motor has won the Bathurst 1000 2 years running now, so reliability and fuel economy wouldn't be an issue
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If you count the tests as "this season" then yeah. I know it never raced, only tested. And it was the same Project Libra SR9.
http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/files/races/entry_lists/Sebring Test Entry List_7.pdf
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Well...
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Well...
You know how much rage would ensue if this happened to be the real thing or look close to it (though a joke)...but why wait when we can subtly ask indirectly of a certain person *cough @R1600Turbo cough*, a simple sorta, no or yes will suffice.
From the original pictures it's going too look like to me a GT-One with a modern or revamped R390 nose, but that's my guess
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I certainly hope it doesn't look like that. I'm expecting/hoping for something more radical than that.
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Why is it pink?
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So otherwise it's spot on @R1600Turbo?
Nissan's next Le Mans racer is Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder in a thin disguise, then? Cool, but probably not within the rules. They may want to rethink that.
Nissan's next Le Mans racer is Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder in a thin disguise, then? Cool, but probably not within the rules. They may want to rethink that.
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Can't say about the design, but they are all well within the rules.
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...the most thinnest of thin info ever. But the man has to eat and pay for his stuff so I wouldn't expect more than that men, pack it up.
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Coming to Le Mans soon
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LMP1
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Huh? heard though he wants to debut this in the N24 next year?
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Hate the idea of a front engine LMP1 from Nissan. It basically says, we know we cant build a car fast enough to win, so we're going to show up with slower alternate technology (like the Zeod), so we get attention not for being fast but for being different. If so I hope it fails like the Zeod
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It wouldn't meet GTE rules unless he's going for garage 56?
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Was discussing this on the RLM FB page... It wouldn't go into GTE as the manufacturers wouldn't allow a small volume sportscar in (heck getting the Viper in with a waiver was hard enough), and it has no "new technologies" to qualify it as G56.
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Its a hybird type set up like the zeod was.
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So what is it exactly? I mean...it looks cool but...what is it exactly? LMPGTE-1? 
And what's it powered by? That sounded like a twin turbo V8 to me.
Either way I love it...something that looks like a Fezza and has a V8.
And what's it powered by? That sounded like a twin turbo V8 to me.Either way I love it...something that looks like a Fezza and has a V8.
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So whay is it exactly?
Haven't you heard? It's the new GT1 class for pointless one offs from minor makes that will last around a year or two?!
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I don't think a front engined car is necessarily an instant write-off. After all, there have been plenty of Aston Martin, Corvette and Viper wins over the last 20 years.
If it does end up being front engined, I'll give Nissan the benefit of the doubt and just be thankful there is some more variety in LMP-1 past hybrid types.
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It has 2 engines a twin turbo v12 and a twin turbo v6So what is it exactly? I mean...it looks cool but...what is it exactly? LMPGTE-1?
Either way I love it...something that looks like a Fezza and has a V8.
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And my name is Chuck Norris, very funny. -_-
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