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17 Nov 2007, 20:17
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Acura/HPD's future plans
In an interview with G.Kirby, Robert Clarke has shed some more light on the plans of Acura as it pertains to "LMP" racing and other aspects as well, including possible GT program.
Via Mariantic Part 1 and Part 2
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17 Nov 2007, 21:26
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Very interesting  Hope they continue along the route they have taken!
Also very damning of the Courage chassis 
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17 Nov 2007, 22:04
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Wow, let's hope Oreca make similar gains with Courage!
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Honda Motor has a strong interest in Le Mans but they only want to go if we can showcase some unique Honda technology and our initial effort in P1 will be pretty conventional
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18 Nov 2007, 01:13
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Showcase Honda tech... They want to bring hybrids, perhaps? Would they get a rules break like diesels do? A hybrid would be great news for LM24, IMO.
Or maybe they'll make another one of those humanoid robots and run round for 24 hours...
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18 Nov 2007, 10:09
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Zytek is supposed to be working on a gas (natural gas) electric hybrid...
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18 Nov 2007, 16:49
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Zytek is supposed to be working on a gas (natural gas) electric hybrid...
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ooohhh....that'd be weird...ive heard electirc usually is used at slow speeds; so a hybrid engine might make sense in a Lucchini (sorry, couldn't miss out) but there seems little point now i think about it. Would mash batteries pretty fast.
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18 Nov 2007, 16:57
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Also very damning of the Courage chassis |
Indeed. I wonder why they didn't switch their attention to the Lola chassis after realising the Courage shortcomings so early?
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18 Nov 2007, 16:59
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Well courage haven't been ridiculously crap with it...
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18 Nov 2007, 18:00
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Well courage haven't been ridiculously crap with it...
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11th and 12th, out of 13, for the season is not even average so .......
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18 Nov 2007, 19:05
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Originally Posted by zac510
Indeed. I wonder why they didn't switch their attention to the Lola chassis after realising the Courage shortcomings so early?
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Because they have no interest in running anyone's chassis other than their own? Any chassis is a short term development "lab." In fact the Lola is dropped for 2008.
The Courage worked as well as anything for a development/learning platform. (Perhaps even better, since there is more to be learned making massive improvements to something than running and making small improvements to something else that's already pretty good.)
The Lola provided a "baseline" for their engine development, they had no plan to mess with it.
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18 Nov 2007, 23:22
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Fair call.
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19 Nov 2007, 08:41
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so Acuras LMP2 motor IS based on an IRL motor.......I bleedin new it!
"The naturally-aspirated Acura V-8 engine is based on an old IRL design and is the first engine developed entirely by HPD. "The engine was really the strength of the program this year," Clarke observed. "We were pleasantly surprised. We had zero engine problems through the season which is quite remarkable, particularly with three teams. So because we had such good reliability I think you'll see us be a bit more risky this year and crank up the performance a bit. At the same time, we're trying to get weight out of the engine and the chassis."
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19 Nov 2007, 13:15
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ooohhh....that'd be weird...ive heard electirc usually is used at slow speeds; so a hybrid engine might make sense in a Lucchini (sorry, couldn't miss out) but there seems little point now i think about it. Would mash batteries pretty fast.
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Err no! The electric motors are used to assist the petrol motor during acceleration - instant torque from an electric motor so you could see a massive increase in acceleration compared to a normal petrol car - should have more torque than the diesels too
As regards the batteries they are recharged during braking...
Potentially a great little system - bit heavy possibly atm
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19 Nov 2007, 13:58
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As studies from F1 teams have shown flywheel solutions are more suitable. See latest Racecar Engineering on Flybrid
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19 Nov 2007, 14:23
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Originally Posted by SebringMG
Err no! The electric motors are used to assist the petrol motor during acceleration - instant torque from an electric motor so you could see a massive increase in acceleration compared to a normal petrol car - should have more torque than the diesels too
As regards the batteries they are recharged during braking...
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The technology sounds very very intesting. The more technology, the more parts and the more moving parts, more to go wrong or break.
time will tell with this technology. It will be interesting . . .
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