Porsche has taken victory at the Le Mans 24 hours race with the #19 car driven across the finish line by current Formula One driver Nico Hulkenberg. He was joint driving the car with Earl Bamber and Nick Tandy.
Achieving an adequate rear installation stiffness looks a bit of a challenge...and the angle of the rear drive shaft seems a bit extreme.Tim.Wright wrote:I don't think the driveshaft runs through the tunnel. It's rumoured to be either some sort of drop gear arrangement or the motor is embedded into the wall of the chassis.
Where do you see the issue? The spindly rocker arm?DaveW wrote:Achieving an adequate rear installation stiffness looks a bit of a challenge...and the angle of the rear drive shaft seems a bit extreme.Tim.Wright wrote:I don't think the driveshaft runs through the tunnel. It's rumoured to be either some sort of drop gear arrangement or the motor is embedded into the wall of the chassis.
Not really. I am a little surprised by what appears to be large unbraced rectangular sections carrying the suspension loads across the tunnels. Strong it may be, but stiff? Probably not.Tim.Wright wrote:Where do you see the issue? The spindly rocker arm?
DaveW wrote:Not really. I am a little surprised by what appears to be large unbraced rectangular sections carrying the suspension loads across the tunnels. Strong it may be, but stiff? Probably not.Tim.Wright wrote:Where do you see the issue? The spindly rocker arm?
You are probably right.RacingManiac wrote:Thats why I'm wondering it that ends up being actually a part of the tub....
Me too, and anything that may add stiffness like "triangulating" the rectangle would spoil the tunnel... or maybe crossing it with a wing profile? No, then they would have a wing profile fairing the drivesaft...DaveW wrote:Not really. I am a little surprised by what appears to be large unbraced rectangular sections carrying the suspension loads across the tunnels. Strong it may be, but stiff? Probably not.
Fantastic picture!RacingManiac wrote:http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/the-nissa ... 1683946630
The pic there made it look like there might be a bit more complex curve on the box to maybe add a bit more stiffness to the flat pancake shape of that box area.
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Please not! I'm going to get heart attack. =D>acosmichippo wrote:I love how open they are about this now. Imagine how much more fun F1 would be if we could see inside every car like that.
If the can require drivers to show up for certain interviews etc. before and after the race as part of the deals with the media, they could easily require that the teams show of their hardware, they already have rules that they are not allowed to cover parts of the car or spare wings etc.acosmichippo wrote:I love how open they are about this now. Imagine how much more fun F1 would be if we could see inside every car like that.
and it gives them lots of media attention, they love to have something real to show and write about instead of having to come up with speculation and or just repeat press releasesRacingManiac wrote:F1 also stopped teams from putting those walls in front of garages. But still, a lot of details are "spyed" in F1, not given. Though I think Nissan has less to lose just because they are so different from anyone else...
