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Old 31 Oct 2017, 05:04 (Ref:3777681)   #351
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Cars were up to around 950kg when blowovers were common place and the lightest GTE cars are under 1200kg so it's really only a 250kg difference at minimum.

An LMP1 car is 4650mm x 1900mm while the Ford GTE is presumably 4963mm x 2050mm (both longer and wider than GT1 cars were allowed in the 90s) so it has ~15% more floor area. LMP1 has a maximum combined overhang of 1750mm while that gives the Ford 2253mm, which is a crapload more and once again actually more than the Mercedes CLR (2220mm)



Then of course they don't have the pitch sensitivity reducing stepped floor or required anhedral splitter of a post 2004 LMP either so their underbody package is actually very similar to an old GT1 car.

The current diffuser looks like it should create a more powerful aero imbalance if the car starts going nose up.
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Old 31 Oct 2017, 13:59 (Ref:3777773)   #352
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The current diffuser looks like it should create a more powerful aero imbalance if the car starts going nose up.
I guess, i was thinking more of a car getting sideways and flipping, as the P1's did, not the straight lift of a nose backflip situation. Either way, nobody wants to see cars get airborne and I think the rule makers are probably included in that list.
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Old 31 Oct 2017, 14:14 (Ref:3777778)   #353
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My original reply was supposed to say "the nose" not sure how it turned in to "those". As far as getting airborn in yaw condition like we were seeing I don't think it would help once enough air moving at a high enough speed begins to pass underneath the car. All of those aero devices have a very limited amount of yaw where they actually work. That's why high downforce cars snap so suddenly. Once the air begins to move over the car in anything other than straight over it, all of that downforce that it just had is now immediately gone and if a high enough pressure is built up underneath the car it's liftoff.
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Old 31 Oct 2017, 16:45 (Ref:3777796)   #354
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I guess, i was thinking more of a car getting sideways and flipping, as the P1's did, not the straight lift of a nose backflip situation. Either way, nobody wants to see cars get airborne .
You say that but to be honest, those clips are the most often shown of Le Mans.

Good publicity for the race and no serious injuries, and let us also be honest with ourselves we all remember them
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Old 3 Nov 2017, 20:47 (Ref:3778415)   #355
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Ferrari 488 GTE Evo test mule at Monza

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Old 3 Nov 2017, 21:44 (Ref:3778422)   #356
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Ferrari 488 GTE Evo test mule at Monza

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New front fenders and diffuser from what I can see. The diveplane area has changed and it looks like there were two different front splitters being tested.
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Old 8 Nov 2017, 01:35 (Ref:3779352)   #357
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Musical chairs at Porsche GTLM. S365 says Tandy and Bamber go to IMSA full time (which is a good move). Pilet in the other car has been mighty so good move keeping him in play. Bruni and Vanthoor to WEC fulltime (also a good move and my WEC super season pre-season favorites for the title and glory at LM )

Of the two pairings in WEC 2017, who gets the reduced role (or is there a 3rd car in the works)? The 92 car has looked much racier than the 91 car all season. Kevin Estre has been phenomenal and seems likely to stay. Christensen not too shabby although he binned the car at Le Mans. Unlucky engine failure in Shanghai where they dominated until that point. They have had a litany of DNFs on the season. 2 mechanical failures (Shanghai, Silverstone) and the accident at Le Mans which was a double points round.

In the 91 car, Lietz and Mako are somehow 3 points off lead for drivers title going into final round in Bahrain. I don't know how they have ended up in this position as they haven't stood out this season. The 92 car would have been the better placed car in each of the races where they DNFd. If they take the title, it will be hard pressed to push them aside.


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Old 17 Nov 2017, 22:55 (Ref:3781129)   #358
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New Glikenhaus SCG 004 will be in 2019.
This Is Glickenhaus's Volume Road/Race Car, starting at $400,000.
The car should be available as a GT3 and a GTE/GTLM race car.

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Old 19 Nov 2017, 17:21 (Ref:3781512)   #359
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Impressed to see AF Corse and Ferrari sweep all of the championships in the absence of Gimmi Bruni.
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Old 19 Nov 2017, 17:27 (Ref:3781514)   #360
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BMW M8 GTE completed a 24-hour test at Paul Ricard.

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Old 19 Nov 2017, 19:07 (Ref:3781535)   #361
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Seen on Twitter that new Aston Vantage GTE revealed on Tuesday Nov. 21
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Seen on Twitter that new Aston Vantage GTE revealed on Tuesday Nov. 21
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Old 21 Nov 2017, 20:12 (Ref:3782055)   #363
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https://scontent.fsst1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...c6&oe=5A9EEC96

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2017/1...ntage-gte.html

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Old 21 Nov 2017, 20:39 (Ref:3782059)   #364
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Seems that AMR have dumped Dunlop and are back on Michelins.
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Old 23 Nov 2017, 04:09 (Ref:3782348)   #366
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Not an attractive car, especially not from the front.

Looks a lot like a racing version of the Vantage inspired knock-off in GTA 5 (that came out in December last year)... Which isn't a good thing.

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Not an attractive car, especially not from the front.

Looks a lot like a racing version of the Vantage inspired knock-off in GTA 5 (that came out in December last year)... Which isn't a good thing.

I think it looks way better than the outgoing model.
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Old 23 Nov 2017, 11:46 (Ref:3782411)   #368
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Not an attractive car, especially not from the front.
Sadly I have to agree. And it's not just the Vantage, but it applies to quite a lot of modern cars, ranging from super minis to hundred dollar supercars.

There was a time I was so excited when they presented a new car, but now that kind of thing is getting rarer and rarer.

I think I am getting old...
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I'm not sure on it.

Racing car - love the front. But the rear looks like an afterthought with the diffuser again.

Road car - front looks like a Mazda MX5. It isn't ugly, but doesn't look like an Aston muscle car to me. Rear of the road car is awesome though.
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Form after function. Less so on the road car but I think there's a lot of the Valkyrie going on up front.
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McLaren Senna revealed. Road legal, extreme track car, 500 unit production run.

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Ohhhh dear the styling of this thing and then to put the Senna name to it, shame. Sure it's a hell of a drive though.
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That looks like a 12 year old had some fun in an NFS game... not that I hate it though, but that rear wing looks out of place
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I can't believe what my eyes are seeing

I swear it's the ugliest hypercar I've seen in recent years.
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Hideous, but 99% sure that's the base for the GTE car.
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