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hope is just a test configuration... those bugatti veyron style headlights are disgusting
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3 Mar 2015, 17:34 (Ref:3511240) | #7954 | ||
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LOL...Jalopnik.com just posted this screen cap
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/new...mp1-1689171679 |
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3 Mar 2015, 21:55 (Ref:3511353) | #7955 | |
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It's not that radical really. 2014 car was already cutting away that part of the fender, this is just drawing attention because they cut away enough to have to change the headlights and put a painted turning vane (which may just be a legality panel) out there.
Probably trying to maximize the front wing area. Looks like the brake ducts are in the leading edge of the top panel like the original testing version of the 919 and the ARX-04 now though. |
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3 Mar 2015, 22:55 (Ref:3511379) | #7957 | ||
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Its plausibly a petrol motor.
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3 Mar 2015, 23:13 (Ref:3511386) | #7958 | ||
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To me, it doesn't sound much different than the R10, which was a diesel. There's been reports that Audi diesel LMP1 cars have sounded different depending on exhaust exit location: R15 sounded different with its periscope exhaust, the R18 sounded different with it's rear exit exhaust, 2013 R18 sounded different with it's EBD DRS exhaust, '14 R18 sounded different with it's fin mounted exhaust.
And now it's pretty apparent that Audi are running a Toyota or LM'14 inspired periscope exhaust. |
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3 Mar 2015, 23:43 (Ref:3511402) | #7959 | ||
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I think the exhaust is the same set up as they had on the long tails at Le Mans last year.
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Here's more video from today, taken from around the perimeter of the track so you can hear the acceleration better. It was windy there today as it often is, so you'll hear a lot of that also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ELPDSi-mk |
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PS. It looks like your up in my neck of the woods. I'm in Altamonte Springs. Be on the lookout for my silver Stage 3 2001.5 B5 S4! We should grab a beer some time |
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4 Mar 2015, 01:03 (Ref:3511426) | #7964 | |
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I'd have thanked some fast safe car on YouTube but they tried to make me create a channel. So, screw it---the spindly amphibian gets no thanks.
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4 Mar 2015, 02:37 (Ref:3511453) | #7966 | ||
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UGLYEST..AUDI..EVER..!!
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4 Mar 2015, 02:42 (Ref:3511454) | #7967 | ||
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Great video of the two Audis together in front of Chateau Panoz - Sebring. Thanks! |
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4 Mar 2015, 09:56 (Ref:3511576) | #7969 | ||
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The lip on the front diffuser looks to curl up at an incredible angle, meaning to push even more air under the car in between the front wheels.
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4 Mar 2015, 13:44 (Ref:3511641) | #7970 | |
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I was looking at the Joest site and found this about the 2014 car:
http://www.joest-racing.de/en/index....e-tron-quattro In addition to the internal combustion engine, the powertrain concept, for the first time, features the integration of two hybrid systems. As in the past, a Motor-Generator-Unit (MGU), during braking events, recovers kinetic energy at the front axle, which flows into a flywheel energy storage system. For the first time, the turbocharger of the internal combustion engine is linked to an electrical machine, which makes it possible to convert the thermal energy of the exhaust gas flow into electric energy – for instance when the boost pressure limit has been reached. This energy also flows into the flywheel energy storage system. When the car accelerates, the stored energy can either flow back to the MGU at the front axle or to the innovative electric turbocharger, depending on the operating strategy. ___________________________ Last years car didn't use exhaust gas flow energy recovery did it ? I thought that was the 2nd hybrid system they abandoned. It also states they were already using an electric turbocharger. |
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Thanks for the thanks guys! One word about the sound of the Audis, they always sound louder on track by themselves but once they're out there next to some loud pipes they get completely drowned out and all you hear are some whooshes. The HPD ARX-04b was noticeably louder and that car is not really very loud itself. The Audi didn't sound any different to me than last years car, but then again I think I'm partially deaf thanks to some late 80's Mazda GTP cars at Daytona (and possibly from seeing Motorhead and the Ramones a few times standing in the front row).
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I frequent the WoB in Altamonte sometimes so that would be a good place. Although I think my car is the opposite of yours, a 1979 Volvo with about 103HP. Haha, that's ok, I think they do it like that to try to cut down on the filthy comments some videos get. Almsfans may be gone but palindromes live on. |
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4 Mar 2015, 16:10 (Ref:3511691) | #7975 | |
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The more and more I look, the more I think the reason for the holes in the front fender is actually to feed more air than typically possible to the front wing buried under there.
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