World Endurance Championship 2015

[SimRacer]

delete please

[Cold Fussion]

Btw there is no point driving the wheels off your car from lap 1 in a six hour race, it merely invites trouble. It's called endurance racing for a reason.

What are you talking about? This has been the norm for the last couple years.

[djos]

What are you talking about? This has been the norm for the last couple years.

Well they aren't doing qually laps during the race.

[Cold Fussion]

In a hybrid car it should be impossible to match a qualifying time to a race time. Secondly, the qualifying laps are set on an almost completely traffic free lap while from lap 5 onwards in the race they were lapping GT and LMP2 cars pretty much every single lap. The Porsche pace throughout the entire race varied from ~1.38 - 1.41, only 2 seconds away away from their ultimate one lap only pace, all the while lapping multiple GT cars per lap which are 30 seconds a lap slower than them. The Audi's and Toyota had a similar spread to their ultimate one lap speed. The days of babying the car are over.

[machin]

The 2016 gte rules allow alot more downforce than previous iterations (and a little bit more power too).

I must say, now that we've seen a few of the 2016 GTE cars I'm a bit disappointed.. .



..when I heard about the new rules I was hoping the cars would look a lot more extreme... kind of a mix between sports cars and DTM... like my mock-up below.... maybe next time...

[SteveRacer]

I prefer the conservative looks of the street versions for GTE. We have the protoype classes for exotic looks. I wish they held them closer to the street platform as well.

[machin]

I prefer the conservative looks of the street versions for GTE. We have the protoype classes for exotic looks. I wish they held them closer to the street platform as well.

I actually totally agree; for me the best era for sportscar racing was the mid nineties GT1 (the Porsche GT1 mk1, Mercedes CLK-GTR)... I wish the top class looked more like that today... Maybe then we'd see an F488 "GT1" like my image above... And GTE could stay as it is...

[Saykas]

2016 Aston Martin Vantage GTE

[Sevach]

http://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/indy ... 1-porsche/

JPM might be looking in.


Meanwhile on COTA another Porsche 1-2 in Qualy.

[Cold Fussion]

So the 919 will be designed with a much larger cockpit in future?

[djos]

Another win for Webber's Porsche team!

[Sevach]

So the 919 will be designed with a much larger cockpit in future?

I know this is a joke, but while the cockpit wouldn't be any trouble, the seat might be.

Anyways, the 18 car hasn't had much luck lately.

[Cold Fussion]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/121104

How do they plan on enforcing power limits?

[djos]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/121104

How do they plan on enforcing power limits?

maybe the same way V8 SuperCars do - they have a measuring device attached to the crankshaft of all competitors which measures power and torque which is then logged by the Standard ECU. (sorry I cant find a link to it atm but have seen it shown on broadcasts)

[mikeerfol]

It's only for Le Mans though http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/121123