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Originally Posted by MulsanneMike
You're the reason I did some more investigating.
Though I don't agree that a open car can compete. We're only looking at straightline speed. And to achieve these straightline speeds requires a very trimmed out car I should think. In my Oak Pesca example, it's carrying 40 lbs more drag and still is 10 km/h down in straightline speed. I mention the Pesca here because I don't believe you can get drag much lower for a open car than what I've calculated. I think the Aston figures are more appropriate. And at a minimum it has 80 lbs more drag. At maximum it's 150+.
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Here is somthing I posted on May 1st on another thread
"Sam at Racecar Engineering has this on his site (from lm testday)
CORNER TIMES
The following times are not a complete sample, but were taken at the first right hand sweep of the Porsche Curves.
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/e...al-report-lmp/
The Pescarolo 01 no 15 (oak) is the 2nd quickest overall.
We already know that that car was the quickest petrol vmax.
We also see that Oak says they did many 2 lap stints and were not interested in lap times.
What is this cars potential?"
Mike if you think the car is very trimmed out how do you explain the Pescarolo corner speed?
BRG