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You'd actually be surprised... When Peka won the 24 hours of Spa a few years ago with the Vette they had 1 full-time employee and a bunch of weekend warriors...
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And in 2008 the RLM guys were consistently making a point about Virgo Motorsport (who incidentally took the LMS title in GT2 that season) having less than 5 full-time employees and everyone else being weekend warriors.
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Anyone notice the tub...yeah, pretty sure that's an AMR-One tub. Couple of things, and before you say it, no, it's not a -02a tub (and pretty sure these shots come out of AAR). Second, notice the rocker mount recesses. That's the clue for a couple of reasons. First, -02a had torsion bars. But...more importantly, why would the Delta Wing have rocker recesses that far rearward when the front suspension is so far ahead of the tub? Delta Wing is using an off the shelf tub, and that's the explanation for the left hand drive to right hand drive swap.
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Ok, and oh brother. Could you conceivably graft on a delta thing proboscis on that tub and make it work? It would have a weight penalty because of the existing structure for the 'normal' suspension, so this half-weight concept seems to be fading a bit in the light of that photograph.
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IMO... using an off the shelf tub makes a lot of sense (although why use a AMR-One rather than a 01a given the Highcroft involvement, no idea). If anything, a little bit more credability... or am I dreaming?
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How is using anything "off the shelf" in line with Garage 56 at LeMans. I guess Aston had alot of junk tubs left from their project that suffered from incorrect basic assumptions. At least they are bring the real car to Laguna.
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So it looks like the DeltaschWing has come out of the closet. Oh, and it will have Michelin rubber.
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http://www.endurance-info.com/versio...ance-8413.html
Man , this just does not look safe to me . Oh , and it looks bloody terrible !!! |
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They'll use a 1.6T engine, given they'll use the AMR-One tub I wonder if they'll be using the Prodrive/BMW WRC engine?
In the flesh the car doesn't look as strange as the rendering, in fact when I saw it in the red livery my first thought was Panoz LMP1, not weird pointy thing. |
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Someone's going to get hurt in this. It doesn't look safe, and it's bloddy uglyt as well. I mean REALLY ugly.
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I'm sorry, I'd like to be enthusiastic, but the darned thing is utterly hideous.......
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The ugly doesn't bug me because it says nothing of its raceiness, DPs are hideous but the racing is good( they are not prototypes like they claim though those are cars in a formula from 19xx tube frame protos really?) This thing is being exhibited to do what the design was not though to do or even designed despite the 'rFactor' sim showing it on a road course- it is an oval based Indy500 racer where special differential and narrow front could be pulled off. This will lap but at Audi/peugeot speeds no it will be discarded for that I think.if we are all wrong then this will still not lead the revolution as lightwwieght and smaller motor formula will work better as it is simply understood better statically and dynamically . The 4 wheel race trike spaceship design is an exercise.
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Sorry if it's already been covered in here but does anyone know about rearward visibility on this? I'm assuming it HAS to have wing mirrors still even if running outside regs? Or would a rear-facing onboard camera suffice?
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Would have prefered the electric or fuell cell proto to be chosen as 56th car at Le Mans
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