The racing car of the future

[Frost]

It looks like a cross between a side car and an F1 car with a little bat mobile thrown in.

https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02166/DeltaWing_2166411b.jpg

Weight: 475kg
Drive: Rear
Engine: Rear 1600cc turbocharged petrol
Power: 300bhp

[Sam_Y_93]

Surely the steering will be really twitchy with how narrow it is?

Don't think it's that far off, the 1600cc turbo engines are coming in 2014.

If the weight is coming down around 200kg and they are going to slow down the how much less power are the new engines going to produce?


EDIT: didn't realise it says they will produce 300hp, you can almost get that out of some 1.6 turbo'd road cars...
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[Frost]

Generally a short wheel base makes things twitchy. Though the wheel base on that looks really long I expect it's an optical illusion due to how narrow it is.
I can see why they've done it from the point of view of Aero, and therefore fuel efficiency. The same goes for light weight, but i can't help feel that handling is going to be... interesting and corner speeds lower especially on corner entry.

[pinkyfloyd]

Thats not the future of racing. This is:

https://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff491/monkeydfranky/Resistance%203/gsm_169_wipeout_2048_interview_e311_060211_640.jpg

Now I cant wait to see that blasting around the track with Great Grandad Shumacher part human part cyborg behind the wheel.
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[daemonoid]

[Frost]

I agree.

[Frost]

[Nexus Icon]

It was a proposed design for the new Indycar series but it got rejected in favour of more traditional open-wheelers.

It looks cool but I bet it gets its arse handed to it by the LMP cars.
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[Frost]

LMP1's will make it look as stupid as... well... as it looks.

But the LMP2's aren't to far off it in terms of spec:
900kg
450bhp

So it has 2/3 the power but about ½ the weight. Added to that the fact it goes twice as far on the same fuel means it will probably run even lighter during the race and need to stop less often.
Quickest LMP1 at Le Mans was: 3:25.738
Quickest LMP2 was: 3:41.458
Slowest LMP2 was: 3:48.863