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Originally Posted by knighty
While I can understand the logic in this, if correct, I really don’t thing this will achieve anything that we don’t already know........ the front running Judd V10 engined cars have already proven the huge gap between gas and diesel regs……..and the V12 AM engine is a pretty poor engine design for a race motor, it has an included valve angle of about 40 degrees (bad news), and is quite a tall and heavy motor……its not even comparable to a Judd…….ok, it will be a good basis to get AM started in LMP1………. but long term, if AM want to stick with the gasoline route with hope of taking on Audi & Pug, they will need a clean sheet design for sure.
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What the Aston V12 has proved is that it can be run flat out for 24hrs, unlike every current P1 petrol motor, other than the Audi V8 TT.
How many times do we see GT1 factory cars in the top six at then end of a 6/12/24 hr events?
Last season, Penskes speed and reliability forced Audi into mistakes, right now, if you're Audi or Peugeot, you can be sure by the 3 hr mark the leading petrol P1's will have hit enough trouble to put them out of the running for an overall win. Other than Pescarolo, who has even been within touching distance should Audi or Peugeot lose a lap or two, usually they're 2 laps down on pure pace, another 3 down due to an alternator failing or some electrical gremlins.
In 2008 P1 spec, the Aston V12 should have little trouble touching 700bhp (650bhp+ '07
p1 spec, plus 3% larger petrol restrictors, plus breaks for homologated enginers).
As for the V12 package, the larger, turbocharged diesels have shown big power/torque and reliability beat out small, lighweight, but often fragile F1 type engines that rarely run to their full potential during the race.