The Le Mans General Discussion Thread
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That's probably exactly what Bernie was thinking.... 
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It was a P2 car.
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I'm wondering with all that we've heard strongly rumoured about the car if Nissan are just throwing all their eggs into the Le Mans basket. Mike Fuller reckons that a 15-20% drag reduction on a traditional LMP1 design is possible with what Nissan have done, but that ultimately comes at the cost of downforce. This approach effectively rules Nissan out of being competitive at any other circuit in the WEC calendar, which are all fairly typical purpose-built circuits that require the big downforce numbers to be competitive on.
Add that to the rumours of big horsepower from the combined ICE-Hybrid system and it all points to a Mulsanne-eater. If the hybrid system is designed to be deployed for the amount of time they expect to be at full throttle on the Le Mans straights, they may have something going... they'll suffer in the Porsche curves and in the few other normal corners like the Dunlop curves and Indianapolis but could make it up for it on the straights.
There's still a part of me that thinks they'll end up rolling out a fairly normal looking P1 car that has some interesting advances in the hybrid system (that horsepower figure is too tempting not to ignore, Toyota were getting 1000bhp total last season and their hybrid system wasn't even in the top megajoule category, so 1500bhp+ doesn't sound too ridiculous to me), but there's too many in-the-know well-connected people saying it's something much more unique...
Add that to the rumours of big horsepower from the combined ICE-Hybrid system and it all points to a Mulsanne-eater. If the hybrid system is designed to be deployed for the amount of time they expect to be at full throttle on the Le Mans straights, they may have something going... they'll suffer in the Porsche curves and in the few other normal corners like the Dunlop curves and Indianapolis but could make it up for it on the straights.
There's still a part of me that thinks they'll end up rolling out a fairly normal looking P1 car that has some interesting advances in the hybrid system (that horsepower figure is too tempting not to ignore, Toyota were getting 1000bhp total last season and their hybrid system wasn't even in the top megajoule category, so 1500bhp+ doesn't sound too ridiculous to me), but there's too many in-the-know well-connected people saying it's something much more unique...
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Which will probably useless this year, especially if Nissan go front-mid engine. Their aero concept will be tailored for their car's direction. What good will it do to rear-mid engine cars? Maybe if Nissan's take wins and/or LM, the other teams will copy it. But most of their ideas wont be able to be copied this year. Its not like F1.
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Good. I've been telling that part of me he's wrong
Any disclosure possible on how much on-track testing the car has done so far?
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Too bad the GM proving ground isn't near your work area R1600 cause then you could give us insight on the other mid engine american supercar in the works.
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That's in Yuma, isn't it?
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Yeah but I don't live there anymore nor talk to any of my engineering friends that were in that area
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This picture makes it look like a regular mid-engined LMP1, the internals will probably hold some surprises though.
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Meanwhile, someone at Nissan's security department is getting fired.
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Those images are so blurry that it could be anything.
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Maybe they were doing a back to back test between the GT-R and the Ligier JS P2 (which some of their drivers have experience in, VW did the same with a Fabia S2000 when they were testing their Polo WRC in 2012).
The proportions may look weird on that one photo because of the angle of the car (you have to guess the perspective based on the rear wing which is easier to see than the nose), it could be 2 pictures of one car.
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Isn't that CoTA? Why was it so hard to get a good photo of it? When the Ferrari FXXK was there people got some fairly clear shots of it.
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Because Ferrari probably invited people there.
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