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Originally Posted by gwyllion
@chernaudi: Your Audi fanboyism is clouding your judgement. In the Peugeot Sport video about the Le Mans test day, there is only one moment where a light mist of smoke is visible. However, on the Sebring test footage the R18 is smoking very badly on a number of shots; see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9e15hs_T0k#t=1m22s.
VTG is not a miracle technology that can get completely rid of turbo lag. The big turbo of the R18 has to produce 2 bar boost and feed a 3.7 liter engine, while the small turbos of the 908 only have to feed one 1.85 liter cilinder bank.
If the Peugeot engine indeed smokes very little, they may be in a position to lobby with the ACO to enforce the no smoke rule. |
There's a video on You Tube where the 908 smoked badly too, at 5:12 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h5-028d344
That's as bad as anything I've seen the R18 do in similar videos posted, and I doubt that is was isolated there, and at least one other person here said that at wide open throttle, the 908 smoked worse than the R18 down the Mulsanne.
I don't believe with their "all power" mentality that Peugeot will play the hypocrite game, but they've whined before when they couldn't/wouldn't copy something that Audi did that they thought was an advantage.