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The coupe is now center position for the driver. So... single seater but room for two sportscar?
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22 Sep 2013, 11:32 (Ref:3307367) | #2407 | |
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Cota onboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXOqkWn7cpI
Does it have traction control? The spyder (he he) version lookd really loose on track when it went nearer to its limits, which is a positive thing considering how stable and even boring LMPs look. |
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The coupe is a step backwards so far. Kinda disappointed when watching the alms race it was having trouble passing GTE's. Its best lap was a 2:03.266, compared to 2:05.035 for the fastest GTE.
And if you watched Austin's wec race the lmp's were sliding and spinning. I don't think taking turns flat out is boring, sliding is for drift cars or rally events. Last edited by TF110; 24 Sep 2013 at 04:45. |
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I did not mean sliding=drifting, but small sideways moments here and there, when the car simply goes over its limit and driver has to use opposite lock. Those just seem to happen very rarely in dry conditions, at least in a way that it is visible in television. Largest reason has to be traction control.
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During the ALMS broadcast the announcers were talking a lot about how hard Antonio Garcia was working to keep the Corvette on track, while the Viper seemed to have a lot more traction.
I guess if I had been watching more closely I would have seen his hands flying around the wheel, or the tiny differences in line between laps, but with modern tires, I am not sure that there is a wide range of lessening grip ... more like, the car adheres or the car slides out of control. When we do see a driver lose and catch a car it is over in a fraction of a second---things happen too fast and the forces are too great for the kinds of fishtailing we might remember from older tires. Just a thought, no actual scientific research to back that up. |
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I'm not expecting to see 917 kind of handling, and actually I'm mainly talking about corner exists. Modern tyres are good, but it shouldn't affect this part that much. And of course wheels spinning is not the fastest way to get around a corner but nobody can have so perfect throttle input all the time they just never give too much. Maintaining optimal slip ratio is easy for a computer (traction control) though... The difference became pretty obvious in F1 when they banned traction control for 2009 - suddenly a lot more fighting with the steering wheel when accelerating out of a corner.
Actually in the final laps when Toyota was behind the other Audi and lapping it, it got a big slide in the last turn (properly sideways). The thing that I can't even remember when was last time I saw similar one speaks for itself. Last edited by deggis; 24 Sep 2013 at 13:29. |
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Something I noticed while watching the replay of COTA. At Road America, the DW-Spyder was the quickest car on the straights by a large margin. At COTA with the DW-Coupe, the car just got passed by Dyson like it was standing still (on a long straight). Something is a-miss here...
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What part of the DW's performances at the start of the year made Don think it was ready for LM?
Well done to the ACO for refusing the shoe-horn it into the race. |
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Is there any question that a tub with a roof weighs more than one without? Seems to me there is more material. Not only would a tub with a roof weigh more I'd bet the CG is also higher.
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As it is these are the specs for the previous version of the DeltaWing http://www.deltawingracing.com/tech-specs/ and as far as I know they haven't released the specs for the Coupé version. |
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Just wondering how it is affecting the overall dynamics and balance of the car? Bowlby designed an open-cockpit racer with a very low CoG. The roof changes the dynamics in a lot of ways, it would seem. Also wonder if a raked windshield that was concave and followed and extended the low area between the front wheels would make it slippier?
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