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i am just pleased it is there, looking forward to seeing it
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radio le mans talking about it now
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Just to get this far is a bit of an achievement in it's own right, considering it started as a contender for the new IndyCar and was rejected; the power of persistence.
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The black has actually grown on me quite a bit. I don't expect it will change...
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The 3 safety car solution at Le Mans is actually quite a good and fair solution, as long as you want/need to have Safety Cars (I'd generally prefer Code 60/100/whatever). With 3 SCs you keep at least some of the time differences that teams and drivers fought for over hours. If you put them all in one queue, any margin except lap (dis)advantages will be lost which is the most unfair it can get, esp. on such a long track! If you do a pit stop under the current safety car rules, you will loose one third of the lap because you have to wait for the next SC - back under green that would be around 1'10. If you do a pit stop under green, you loose more or less the same amount of time! If you loose a lap this way stopping under yellow - well you would in most cases also have lost it under green. What's unfair about that? Beaing allowed to go back into your original queue and losing no time at all by stopping would be far more unfair. As for the Delta Wing: I like it very much and I'm happy it got this far. Hopefully the gearbox issue won't stop them, or at least not too early |
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Right - now back to the DW please......
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Looks kinda neat from the rear!
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and there are the rear flaps, fully retracted!
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DW still on its first set of tyres.
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Difficult to say. I don't know how many laps they did this morning and we've had changing conditions. I've not really being paying attention to lap times of it either. So no facts at all!
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I simply love it.
Well done to those who made it happen and the bravery of those who stand/stood behind it. It is lasts in the race, I think it will raise a lot of eyebrows. |
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Just for fun, I checked the 1990 grid (the first year I went). It's time today is quicker than a 787B.
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I cant help but believe that this car will get deep into the 3:30-3:40 range...I checked the top speed charts and this car clocks a whopping 300km/h..Thats there or there abouts with the Rebellion Toyotas...The P1 rebellion Toyotas matter of fact...And it is supposed to corner faster than those cars.
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They're going to find 10+ seconds before the race?
Does it have more downforce than the Rebellion Toyotas then? For reference top speed of the Rebellion was 312.2km/h (10th) and the DW was 306.9km/h (16th) |
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Apparently the tyres came off it and looked brand new. Can't remember who it was that tweeted that? Maybe GG.
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They said that the engine is doing 300 bhp, imagine if they do aroud 450 bhp, what top speed and lap times they will achieved????? |
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Mmmm, give them softer tyres!
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