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Old 5 Jan 2020, 14:10 (Ref:3949904)   #39
canaglia
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canaglia should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridcanaglia should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally Posted by Damian Baldi View Post
A few lines about what I've seeing in the last two days.

- lot of cars with very good looking and coloured liveries (wellcome!)
- Mazda is flying, I see a dedicated BoP coming
- the new Corvette looks so good, and that yellow is easy to associate with the C7. It's the engine the same in the new car? It sounds different, maybe because the exhaust.

- RWR is facing the reallity in the hard way
- DragonSpeed is so fast that it seems that they forgot to put the P2's limitation on the engine.
- beside Dragonspeed being too fast, and RWR too slow, the other P2 cars are very close and it looks like we will have a good race in that sub series
- why the ladies are so far from the other Lambos?
- Didn't knew about roy Block, it seems very fast, and the Alfa looks promising.

AER is the mazda bop factor for 24hours races.


About C8R, don't know if the 5.5L is still based on the LT1 or the new LT5 but giving an eye to the bop sheet, surely it was made more "docile"...

it has a max rev rpm at 7500rpm, while C7R engine max rev rpm was always about 6500-6800rpm and watching le mans onboard telemetry drivers used to shift up at about 6000rpm.
Due the increased revlimit, tend to think C8R V8 will get max power at higher rpm releasing less torque than recent past...



Considering max power is usually reached before the revlimit



if C7R used to push 520hp@6000rpm it would require about 620Nm at that rpm, with >650Nm for most of the rpm range.


While now 520hp@7000rpm require 530Nm, with likely a torque curve below 600Nm for most of the rpm range. Basically these are figures comparable to old ford/GM/bmw 5L V8 grand-am years.
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