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Originally Posted by dj4monie
The adjustments IMHO are fairly minor. The differences on track are obvious. 3 years of running the same car the advantage is clearly to Highcroft and the changes to that car have been on-going. Somebody mentioned elsewhere that they were using new bodywork. From what I can tell, its only part of the Le Mans low drag package, the nose of the car is the standard high downforce spec they have been running on the car.
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the car is completly different, it really only shares the tooling for the tub. That is to say that once the tub is out the mould it's machined and bult to a different spec to the LC75. All the body pannels, the suspension and even the gearbox are custom. The front and rear body are even quick release like the Audi, somthing the LC75 isn't. interestingly the nose this weekend was new, a kind of hybrid of the 24 and the Sebring. Note the lack of turning vanes but the large (some what dull) front lights and the inward fender vents on the front.
Also remember when the car was closer to a LC75 that Porsche put Acura in a world of hurt, but by the end of the second year Porsche bacically backed out of the championship for fear of the investment needed to beat Acura. Now the HPD can lap the leMans at the same speed as the Porsche even though the ARX01c has a much smaller restrictor. (2010 restrictors are smaller than 2009).