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The Opel looks a bit like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Now that you mention it, I can see resemblance to the Porsche Panamera.
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So with 6 Mustangs in the top 10, and taking up the top 3 positions, surely they are cheating?
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Adelaide is a very different track.
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I gotta say after now looking at the cars on track, with other cars... The Mustang looks like it was put in a sack and beat with the ugly stick.
Nascars look less ridiculous than that front end. And I won't say anything about the rear WING |
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The stuff about the lightweight panels on the ZB took the cake, and made zero difference. People whining about a technical difference when all they had to do was pull their finger out. Fact is, nobody competent should bring out a new car that's slower than an old one, especially when teams have the resources such that Penske have. |
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Few teams struggling to adjust to the linear springs according to press reports.
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Just look at the side profiles GTR posted up....then tell me the Mustang is no "slippery-er" than the Commodore...with a straight face...
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It seems to my eye in chasing the aero of getting that nose down low they've completely ignored the actual lines of the car, and they've lost all the detail lines in the rear that make the thing sexy. So maybe it wins, but its fugly, and it didn't have to be. Someone elsewhere did an overlay of the race car with the road car and the nose really stands out. |
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On an overcast cloudy day the noise levels are higher than a bright sunny day. I have seen a 2db difference between the morning and afternoon noise levels as the place clouded over. |
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Something that most tracks (& often even the EPA etc) seem to conveniently ignore - in this case providing headaches to teams that are completely unwarranted. |
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So Nissan and Ford teams immediately manufactured carbon fibre roofs and bonnets for the next round after the Adelaide 500 for no reason? |
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Something like a VW Golf with a upright C-pillar has a drag coefficient of 0.31 whereas the VW Jetta sedan with a sloped C-pillar has a drag coefficient of 0.28. The even more sloped C-pillar of a Toyota Prius allows Toyota to get the drag coefficient down to 0.25. |
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Performance in yaw and at other speeds is free, and Ford Performance will have (of course) optimised that. Why? Because the precedent was set by the Commodore that all the body panels could be composite. And if you have to make moulds for all the body panels anyway, there is no reason to make these moulds exact (inverse) replicas of the production panels when it's now accepted that the panels can be whatever shape you want. |
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And what difference did it make? Nary a whit. It was just excuses. |
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Interestingly the fastest lap was about 1.5sec slower than the practice lap record but I guess that will diminish with development.
More encouragingly only 1.504 sec difference between fastest and 24th. |
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Minimum weight has been dropped because the new transaxle is lighter. Plus some savings with the composite panels.
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