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Interview with Ralf Jüttner: http://www.pitlane-vision.com/fils-d...sebring-r.html
They are not using the R18 at Sebring because the car is still in development and they only have a small stock of spare parts. Only after the race they will start producing them in larger quantities. The fact that the new rules were released very late, also did not help. He believes that the open R15 will have an advantage in traffic. However he also pointed out that the new cars will have a better fuel consumption and hence will do more laps with one tank. |
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How many laps did the R15 get at this last race before refueling? Does anyone know? If so, how did that compare to what the NEW 908 did? It seemed that HPD was pretty good with fuel economy as well.
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The new 908 was the best of the three, and i believe that it beat Audi with 1 or 2 laps (but this is only a gut feeling)
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All the cars--new or grandfathered, ran 20-22 lap stints depending on stategy and pace.
Of course, the newer cars (R18, 908) should get better mileage because of the smaller engines and being built around the rules rather than simply adapted. And on Wind Tunnel last night, Wolfgang Ullrich was a guest on that show, and said that the R18 since Dec. has run well over 7000kms in testing and that they plan to test all week in Sebring (which was expected), and that he hopes that Audi can return to the ALMS as soon as 2012, presumably with R18s. And on Speed Center, Calvin Fish reported that all last week a second team of drivers and mechanics have been testing at least one R18 at Miami-Homestead Speedway's oval and road course, and that the car and team would join the main Joest team by Saturday night following the 12 hours for a week of testing at Sebring starting today. |
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The R15 and new 908 were the same, old 908 was about 2 laps longer under green stints.
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21 Mar 2011, 14:06 (Ref:2850588) | #1009 | ||
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You can see in the photos from today that Audi has changed the angle of the shark fin. It no longer angles down, but instead goes straight back from the roof scoop and has a higher wing mount
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The wing height seems to be the same, but the position of the swan wing mount has indeed been raised. Compare Sebring with debut version.
Behind the front wheel things have also changed. The brake cooling has been split in 2. Under the TAG logo they are using kevlar (yellow/white) instead of regular (black) carbon fibre. See side view of debut version. Last edited by gwyllion; 21 Mar 2011 at 14:29. |
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is it finaly know weather audi is using an inside V single turbo or not?
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21 Mar 2011, 14:49 (Ref:2850619) | #1013 | |
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I never said you were wrong
I wonder if this change was made on the request of the ACO, perhaps because they want to fin to be straight, or because of performance reasons. The orginal fin has less aero, so it was probably less sensible to cross winds. |
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Sorry gwyllion, I didn't mean to imply you doubting me
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On the pictures of the previous Sebring test they were using one dive plane: http://www.mulsannescorner.com/AudiR...ting2011-1.jpg This time they are not. I also noticed that there is no number on the side of the car. I hope that George Achorn will put more pictures on online, preferrably some shots of the front. |
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My mistake. The single dive plane is still there...
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There seems to be a detachable panel on the side of the rear fender extension and maybe a change to the rear fender flourish.
Also seems that the diveplane has a longer overhang compared to the earlier version and has a detatchable supporting stay. |
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Another detail I noticed, is that they seems to be using reflective or white tape on the top of the car, probably to keep the temperature inside cockpit a bit lower. BTW the quality of those iphone pictures is low. Lets hope George can take some higher resolution pictures of the car as well. |
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I definently see screws or something there on that section of the engine cover in that photo. There's some dotted line there.
Also, even compared to the original tab diveplane, the new diveplane seems to be simply huge! I wonder if this is a planned LM component or if Audi may have something else for the sprint races. I myself join you in hoping that George, as well as Mike, Marshall and John (if they're still on site or near by) can get some shots and video that's in good quality. Last edited by chernaudi; 21 Mar 2011 at 17:12. |
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as stated above. The new 908 was not the best actually. The HPD was the best(less power). The HPD won the michelin green challenge on fuel and tires conservation.
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i don't understand, the R18 are in Sebring today?
EDIT: oh my god, why didn't race this weekend? Fortitude post a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqsP...layer_embedded |
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