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16 Jun 2008, 11:15 (Ref:2229984) | #376 | |
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358 km/h on the Mulsanne Straight in the race!
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Having seen the beast , its now my favourite Coupe . Excellant performance for its first race .
It looked good and fast and was driver well indeed ..... a very plesant surprise indeed . |
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18 Jun 2008, 19:29 (Ref:2232124) | #379 | |
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Has there been any feedback/news from the Dome camp on how Le Mans went, and future plans?
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18 Jun 2008, 23:38 (Ref:2232308) | #380 | ||
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They have said it was a technology demonstrator and that there were no further plans to race it. In their words, finances would have been allocated differently if they actually were intending to make a race program.
What now for them? I assume they will sit back and wait for companies to pay them money to do work. Perhaps Toyota? We can but hope. |
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Someone better bloody finance it.
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Comfortably in the top eight for almost nine hours of the race plus blinding outright speed....superb result! Tough car as well, saw it completeley fail to brake for Mulsanne corner at about 5:00am, thump the tyre barrier, reverse out and then carry on to the pits for a new nose at a goodly pace....superb!
But what is their general plan do we think? Wait for Toyota to stump up the Yen and turn it into a Hydro/Bio/GT-One clone or try and sell a few to Europe and the States....or even both, hopefully! |
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19 Jun 2008, 16:32 (Ref:2232757) | #384 | ||
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The former is their plan, not the latter, as far as their statements indicate. Now if someone offered them $$ for chassis, would they balk? Probably not. But let's face it, there is no history of Dome's chassis selling as well as Lola's or even Zytek's, and there is so much bespoke Dome gear on that car in particular that sourcing spare parts would require that Dome produce small runs of them continuously. Not so practical without works backing.
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Now , thats a very interesting combo . Really would like to see that happen !!!
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Would be good as the Lambo engine looks reliable enough (though can someone tell me what caused it to drop down to last at Le Mans), but most importantly gives a fairly good noise.... Personally I think dome would do well to sell this as a customer car as many teams are familiar with the judd v10 which it ran with and was quite darn quick with an engine based on a over 15 year old f1 engine. Goodness knows what a GT1 engine would do to it! |
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19 Jun 2008, 19:50 (Ref:2232904) | #389 | |
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I'd like to think we'd see it in the Japanease Le Mans Series at least, plus Le Mans itself.
If RFH could run Domes for five or so years, plus Dome had a European base for Le Mans, customers cars should be possible. If you wish to be competitive in P1 in 2009, even if it's best of the rest behind the factory teams, you'll need soemthing like a Lola Coupe or Dome. Even teams such as Pescarolo and Oreca will need new, or much updated, cars. |
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As long as you don't fill it with Porsche propoganda then by all means
Wonder if Brielga may want a job as well... but thats another thread I'm seriously hoping that Dome bring the car to silverstone cos i really want to see it in person. Never been to a Le mans style race before and i hope it's worth it! Dome bringing this would help |
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Now your talking ..... Brielga & Me in charce of the hospitality unit , brilliant move !!!
No Porsche stuff if its a Dome/Lambo mate . Cant see the Dome apearing at Silverstone , but pigs have been known to fly too . Never been to a Le Mans style race , just go ,throw caution to the wind and get ready to enjoy a symphomy of beautiful music . Good luck . |
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Maybe with Aysedasi's permission I could run the team under the Ecurie Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch/ Aysedasi Racing banner well I certainly hope to enjoy it, hope it's a wonderful engine symphony like you say |
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Is the dome running Crueat? - No it is using damper technonlogy designed in house by Dome like the Honda NSX GT00 conventional sping damper units visible in this shot http://www.jusseau.com/auto/prelemans2008/pqlm0889.html Last edited by ss_collins; 20 Jun 2008 at 21:57. |
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According to DOME,
Year's budget that DOME developed S101 in 2001 is about 550 million yen. Year greatly remodeled according to the regulation in 2005 is about 450 million yen. The budget of S102 far exceeds one billion yen! |
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24 Jun 2008, 05:49 (Ref:2236313) | #398 | |
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How much is that in Euros/dollars?
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As of today
550mil YEN = 5.09mil USD = 3.27mil Eruo 450mil YEN = 4.1mil USD = 2.68mil Eruo 1 bil YEN = 9.2mil USD = 5.96mil Euro |
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gee with figures like that, it makes me think they know something we don't (or haven't yet confirmed...)
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