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Flying Lizard receive 997 RSR
it is offical and on planetlemans, flying lizard have received their porsche 997 GT3 RSR's, i also gather they are the first team to receive customer 997 porker's as well.
so we already have it confirmed in black and white, that one of the best teams in ALMS has their car(s) for 2007. now who will follow suit with anymore porshe 997's?, i can remember hearing somewere that a team was going to run an ethanol powered GT2 porsche, out of curiosity who was it? im all for the advancement of ethanol, the messiah in my opinion of performance motoring and motorsport when, the perverbial bloopie of oil hits the fan |
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http://www.lemans.org/sport/sport/re...2007_fr_gb.pdf ART. 2 - FUEL Competitors have to use the fuel supplied by the organiser : specifications upon request. from ACO Supplement: Art. 2 - Fuel 2.1 - Facilities : Ref. ACO 2007 Specifications Technical Regulations - Appendix A. 2.2 – The competitors have to use the fuel supplied by the Organiser. 2.3 – Only one kind of petrol and one kind of diesel will be supplied. sourece: http://www.lemans.org/sport/sport/re...ulier_2007.pdf GT2 rules ART. 17 - FUEL 17.1 - Fuel : The Organiser will supply one type of fuel only. It must be available for sale. 17.2 - Specifications : Ref. : International Sporting Code (Appendix J - Art. 252.9.1.). 17.3 - Special fuels : The use of any fuel other than gasoline (petrol) is subject to a special request submitted to the agreement of the Automobile- Club de l'Ouest and the ASN if necessary. ART. http://www.lemans.org/sport/sport/re...MGT2_fr_gb.pdf |
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From the ACO's official rules release, 19 October, 2006:
FUEL: In 2007, the ACO will supply only one kind of petrol and one kind of diesel for the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Le Mans Series events. To meet the requests of several entrants who want to use bio fuels, the ACO is currently evaluating the possibility of supplying a type of diesel and petrol in 2008 that contain a certain quantity of bio fuel. These fuels will be compatible with current engines. However, the ACO agrees that the American Le Mans Series supply a third kind of fuel based on ethanol for its events in 2007. The capacity of the fuel tanks will be adjusted in such a way that the quantity of energy will be the same whether it is petrol or diesel. For safety reasons the capacity of the fuel tank cannot exceed 110 litres. http://murphythebear.com/blog/ |
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110 liters of ethanol will not give you the same milage as 90 liters of gasoline so that basically cancels that idea.
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IMSA rules for the ALMS have not been released as of yet. For the most part follow the ACO regulations. Plus as Chewymoster mentions, 110 liters of ethonal will not come close to the milage of petrol. I think there is a time and a place for bio-fuels. Time to study the possiblity of the fuels, unforuntitly the engery (btu production) with bio-fuels or bio blended petrol or desiel fuels are not the same a petrol & desiel fuels. If an ethonal powered vehical takes the track at Sebring for winter testing in a few weeks time, so be it. |
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This was 15 years ago but when we switched from gas to Methanol (not Ethanol) we almost doubled the jet sizes on our Webers. Ethanol is not that much different.
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That fuel would not have to be 100% ethanol, would it? Don't read too much into the 110 liter limit. ALMS/IMSA has had a committee of manufacturers and other partners working on an ethanol rule for most of the past season. Leaping to conclusions based on the published information currently at hand would be a mistake, in my opinion. Last edited by TWK; 1 Jan 2007 at 20:55. |
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IMSA / ALMS rules follow the ACO rules very closely. Should be out very soon.
Scott Atherton, I believe has been working to unify the rules with the ACO. |
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