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"At the high end of the spectrum"??? GTLM cars have less power than GTD. Increasing the size of air restrictors would do the trick.
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Easily achievable for turbo cars (bmw, ferrari, ford, next vantage) with a huge fuel tank boost to keep the actual 65min window. Corvette could achieve that too without increase displacement. No way for porsche motor, who already struggle to hit 510hp @10000rpm |
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In GT3, guess the less powerful car is 911 gt3r and z4 gte, that barely can develope 500hp, while the most powerful are bentley, m6 or gt-r according to bop changes. These cars should be in the 530-540hp range. Could be interesting to speculate the torque/power level of the NSX gt3, being the road engine discreetley weak (500hp and about a flat 550Nm for most of the rpm range) while according to bop the car has basically a 2.0bar boost for the whole rpm range with a revlimit set to 7500rpm (like road car). About GTE/GTLM, my bet: about 500-510 for 991 RSR, in a range of 520-530 for ford, corvette, ferrari and bmw. Something more for vantage that run basically almost unrestricted. |
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The IMSA website gives ballparks of 525-530 for the GTLM class, and 500 for GTD.
The IMSA BoP (here's a link to a random BoP table for a race this year) suggests that the Ferrari has significantly less boost in GTD format than it does GTLM. And that's the same car, with a conversion package. Also heavier. So I'm not sure that the claim of GTD being more powerful than GTLM is true. |
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I was thinking that GTE output was in the 475-515-hp range, while GT3 was roughly 500-560 hp. After all, with less aero, they have to make the lap times somehow, and at higher speeds, hp is a less efficient way to do it. Also, the Bentley, BMW, and Nissan must have significant output to push their substantial frontal area through the air.
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GT3 power might be more, but GTD tends to be BoP'd down slightly to avoid the GTD class running right behind GTLM. There was a point in time where the GTD Ferraris were lapping slower than the Ferrari Challenge cars.
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To me GT3 cars develope a gtlm comparable amount of downforce given by the size of splitter, wings and diffuser. Surely gt3 cars produce more drags pheraps. Final power doesn't mean anything.... it's about the kind of engine. take a bentley; bop can reduce the high end rpm turbo boost; it means that power @7000rpm may decreases from 530hp to 510hp at example. But the huge torque curve at low-mid rpm remains untouched! the car will keep on having the same cutting edge acceleration, just will have a worse top speed. While a car like lamborghini huracan has a low torque/high rev power NA engine. If you decrease restrictor size, the engine will develope less power at highest rpm, because engine will develope less torque at that rpm range. Considering that engine has a torque peak of about 520-530Nm at a medium-high rev (6000rpm). If you decrease restrictors size of a high rev engine, very likely you're wasting partially acceleration too. That's why dyno engines suit better. Watch cadillac dpi.... they gave extra ballast, gave mandatory longer ratio at lowest speeds, mandatory settings for rear wing and got shorter restrictors size race by race.... car kept on ruling because bop can't kill low-mid rpm torque developed by the monster 6.2. |
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488 gt3 scored pole in 1.20.6, while 488 gtlm scored pole in 1.17.6. 488 gt3 is about 100kg heavier than 488 gtlm. 488 gt3 uses spec continental rubbish compound, 488 gtlm uses confidential michelin compound. 488 gt3 is also a bit less powerful than 488 gtlm, according to bop sheet pressures. Well.... let 488 gt3 run at same weight of 488 gtlm, let the car use gt-open michelin tires and don't surprise if 488 gt3 will reveal to be faster than her big sister |
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The GT3 has less aero, and thus less drag, but, it's still getting close to the same top speed as the GTE, even though cornering speeds are lower.
Something there doesn't make sense. If acceleration continues, the speed necessarily must continue to rise. Maybe the GT3 would be faster at a track like Monza, but I suspect not so much at a track like Mosport, where you need the aero for all those high-speed corners that make up such a large portion of the lap. |
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I guess the overall point here is that GT cars could obtain a speed of x, but only obtain a speed of y because of the regulations. We can dream of a scenario where cars go faster, but in modern racing, making a car go faster is not relavent. Making cars equal in their class is what matters. Wrong or right, that is what we have.
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600hp maybe is too much, a range of 550hp could be more reasonable. |
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Also, iirc Manthey came clsoe to 600 hp in their 4.3 and 4.4 variants in the 997 RSR But I wouldn't mind seeing Porsche to switch to a twin turbo engine. Maybe even "just" the 3.0 engine from the Carrera, which is what the car is homologated on |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBhQegFhzY the upshift is almost always at 9000rpm, but more than once the engine keeps on revving higher even further than that. 991 GT3R has a mandatory revlimit to 9500rpm too. porsche gtlm is a mere MR car now, they can't say no more that there is no room for turbos there. I hope they will fit the 3.8 twin turbo from the new gt2 rs |
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Auto hebdo magazine, have an interview with Pierre Fillon and talks about the future of LMP1 and the reflection of a return to prototypes aesthetically close to street hyper cars.
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I don't think the fin will go away on prototypes. The ACO and FIA pushed for it, and with the sidepods and other bodywork being what it is on LMP cars now, teams like it for advertising purposes.
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