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Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice
Tell you what I'm fed up with in motorsport, is leaders of bizarre projects such as these who tell us what they think the fans want.
The Delta Wing crew clearly have no idea what we're after.
I want racing cars that look like racing cars and sound like racing cars. They could run on nail clippings for all I care - so long as the sound is there. That's what most of us want.
This looks like something which might go for the land speed record, not victory at Le Mans. It's ridiculous.
Endurance racing will lose a lot of its true fans very quickly if cars begin to look like this.
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Some say that racing can make alternative technologies "cool." Well, few people in or out of racing are going to think this thing is cool. This design was considered too ugly for the IRL. Think about that for a second. Too ugly for the IRL!
I'm not a complete stickler for aesthetic racing cars. I'm ok with some unattractive elements of cars if they are there to improve performance. That is the name of the game after all. This thing, however, is the answer to a question that nobody asked.
EDIT: Remember, this thing very well may take the spot of a potential class winning GTE car or a decent LMP. Ugh.