Nissan LMP1 Discussion

[Simmi]

Originally Posted by cokata

By the time they get to Le Mans they may have found a few more seconds, and not be too far away from the 3rd quickest P1 car.

That won't be much good if they can't get out of the pits. Or they only need an issue around the far side of the circuit and they could be out with a car as early as the Zeod.

I really hope Nissan turn up. I'd rather see them testing even though I don't think Le Mans is the place to do it.

[gustavobamba]

they are testing right now


please see the link below

http://www.corvettemuseum.org/webcam/camera12.shtml

the car is lapping around 1minute/lap

[gustavobamba]

Last lap around 58 seconds… this is very funny

[pirenzo]

Pitted now I think.

I caught a couple of laps around 57-58 there. It's fun "spying" on them isn't it? At least they're putting a few laps together. Impossible to say whether they're fast or not.

[gustavobamba]

This is real cool.

Mr. Darren Cox I don´t know if you now about this... but this is very very interesting.

I´m in a "#EatSleepRaceRepeat" mode myself

[Pontlieue]

Originally Posted by TF110

On gtplanet forums, some user was following the webcam feed and jotted down some rough lap time estimates from using a tree as a reference. He mentioned the lmp2 was doing :56 laps and the gtr doing :53's.

3 seconds per lap faster than an LMP2 car on a :53 lap would mean about 5-6 seconds on the WEC tracks. That would still put them about 4-5 seconds off the other factory teams, but that's not too bad considering where they were some weeks ago.

Of course, that is assuming that the LMP2 car was going full speed.

[wdave0]

Originally Posted by Pontlieue

3 seconds per lap faster than an LMP2 car on a :53 lap would mean about 5-6 seconds on the WEC tracks. That would still put them about 4-5 seconds off the other factory teams, but that's not too bad considering where they were some weeks ago.

Of course, that is assuming that the LMP2 car was going full speed.

I'm pretty sure I read that the P2 car was there to test some Academy drivers so what speed it has is pretty up in the air.

[J Jay]

I thought it was the Greaves car and team that were using the test track alongside the works squad? I think Cox said who was in the LMP2 on MWM but I'll be damned if I can remember it now.

[Simmi]

Originally Posted by J Jay

I thought it was the Greaves car and team that were using the test track alongside the works squad? I think Cox said who was in the LMP2 on MWM but I'll be damned if I can remember it now.

Gaetan Paletou has been driving. Not sure if he's done all the running. Gaining P2 experience and setting some kind of benchmark I suppose.

I wonder how much Nissan have spent on trans-Atlantic flights in the last six months?

[TF110]

Nissan's press release, and heres the photo gallery from the test

[GT3.14]

That moustache adds at least 20bhp.

[miatanut]

Originally Posted by TF110

Nissan's press release, and heres the photo gallery from the test

Thanks!

Originally Posted by knighty

They also mention unofficial claims nissan will be in the 2mj class.....will be interesting to see how they finally achieved that.....sounds like the front tyres were being eaten by doing all the harvesting and deployment chores alone......sounds like they had to come down on the energy class just to make the tyres last.

Originally Posted by Nissan

"Interestingly we could stay on the wets for a long time in drying conditions so that gives us a lot of confidence."

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...=07f449c0ad&e=

It's a press release, so it may be nothing but hot air, but you wouldn't expect them to say that about an area where they are actually struggling.

[pirenzo]

It sounds like they've made some decent progress. No suggestion that they continue to have any fundamental issues. I'm cautiously optimistic that they're going to be OK (relatively speaking) at Le Mans.

[Victor_RO]

Sounds like the car is actually taking good care of its tires. That will be a good thing for Le Mans, the more stints on a tire the better.

[CyberMotor]

Originally Posted by TF110

Nissan's press release, and heres the photo gallery from the test

Thanks!

Nice rooster tail the car has in the wet. It looks very graceful to me like indicating that the car really moves through the air (and water) very well.

It is going to be interesting to hear from the Audi, Toyota and Porsche drivers if there is a large difference in the air while being behind this car compared to the other P1's.

[Simmi]

Encouraging signs hopefully. Let's hope they can keep pushing and put in a solid showing for Le Mans.

I've got used to the look of the car now and I think visually it looks brilliant, especially with a bit of dirt on it. I just hope they can keep them running long enough to get dirty in June.

[cokata]

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/on-track...660255792.html

Lots of interesting info here.

2MJ class pretty much confirmed. They aim for 8 next year and the hybrid system is going to be driving the rear wheels.

[CTD]

Interesting that this is supposed to be the LM aero package, but it does not feature the rearwing lights as the regulations requires.

[miatanut]

Originally Posted by CTD

Interesting that this is supposed to be the LM aero package, but it does not feature the rearwing lights as the regulations requires.

Probably they have bigger fish to fry right now, but the rules specify them to be in the rear wing endplates, which are always skinny things on all the cars, which means the lights are little LED's and wouldn't be very noticeable if they weren't in operation.

[CTD]

Originally Posted by miatanut

Probably they have bigger fish to fry right now, but the rules specify them to be in the rear wing endplates, which are always skinny things on all the cars, which means the lights are little LED's and wouldn't be very noticeable if they weren't in operation.

They have a lot bigger problems than the LED rear wing endplate lights. That is what makes it strange not to have this made and working in the initial design, instead of having another thing needed to be done, before it can race.

It is clearly not installed on the test car:

[pirenzo]

Perhaps they really were planning to run without the wing? It won't have been fully designed if it was a last minute addition, and they've had bigger issues since then.

[MoMedic9019]

Originally Posted by pirenzo

Perhaps they really were planning to run without the wing? It won't have been fully designed if it was a last minute addition, and they've had bigger issues since then.

The intent to be wingless at LeMans was absolutely a goal. The rear wing as on the car is running minimal downforce. It's just a little nervous at the rear on medium to low speed cornering, high speed stuff is fine.

They are building speed now...come LeMans, I think they will be bugging the P1 leaders.

[Nissan LMP1]

Originally Posted by MoMedic9019

The intent to be wingless at LeMans was absolutely a goal.

Can you stop acting like you work there or know something!

[MoMedic9019]

Originally Posted by Nissan LMP1

Can you stop acting like you work there or know something!

Acting? Who's acting?

It was intended, the rear wing was adopted as they felt it was needed to balance the car.

[chernaudi]

I always thought that the Nissan's front end design reminded me of something, and i think that I found it, the Brabham BT44, 45 and 46

Those Brabhams had a similar nose-mounted radiator architecture with the rads being mounted as far back as possible, and even had pullrod front suspension like the Brabham types mentioned did.

BT44:



BT45:



Standard BT46: