[LM24] Le Mans Trap Speeds

[dj choc ice]

hard to say in a way, the modern car's have a much different design ethos to the group C car's, they had no air restrictor's back in the day and remember the sarthe was a very different track back then, a lot faster than it is now so the car's didnt need the high downforce they have now but super low drag.

hence the 240+ mph on the unchicaned mulsanne and the car's with the chicane's in were doing about 230mph, then came the group C 3.5litre car's, the daddy of all race car's and these formed the design basic's for the modern car's particularly the allard J2X.

over a lap time the fastest modern car's would probably just about top the early group C car's but no way would they top a 3.5litre car like a pug 905 or toyota TS010, the peugeot 905 lapped the chicaned sarthe on the test day in 1992 at something like 3:21.xxx, nowadays the 905 with a pro driver would lap around 3:18.xxx.