Nissan LMP1 spotted testing.
Discussion
DanielSan said:
moffspeed said:
Anyone else thinking this could be an elaborate hoax ??
Why? Nissan have already announced the GTR-LM will be front engined, they're going to Le Mans this year so they're gona need to be testing from now to have any hope of being competitive...
I was fortunate enough to watch all guises of the Panoz running at Le Mans and my feet are still numb as a consequence - but the difference is that the Panozs (especially the later roadster) looked unusually right rather than unusually wrong ? I'm all for diversity particularly at a time when LMP2 cars in particular are near-identical but Nissan are clearly thinking "outside the box" in a similar way to Aston Martin a few years back - and we know where that ended. My prediction is that if Nissan rocks up at La Sarthe for the Test Weekend with a car that looks anything like this they will struggle to match LMP2 pace - come back and taunt me in June if I'm wrong !!
Final thought is that if you were to show a non-enthusiast a photo of Nissan's , Toyota's and Peugeot's (recent) LMP 1 contenders and then photos of their respective R390, TS010 and 905B efforts from the early 1990's I suspect they would choose the Gp C cars as being the more modern....but such is progress.
Edited by moffspeed on Thursday 22 January 13:16
Edited by moffspeed on Thursday 22 January 13:19
Have you tried reading the analysis on the mullsannes corner website? If not, please do.
The rear wing is a later addition because it will be running without one at lm. The car has a huge focus on that race alone as it is designed purely to minimise drag; hence the smaller rear tyres than fronts.
no point I me trying to repeat what Mike Fuller has already written.
The rear wing is a later addition because it will be running without one at lm. The car has a huge focus on that race alone as it is designed purely to minimise drag; hence the smaller rear tyres than fronts.
no point I me trying to repeat what Mike Fuller has already written.
moffspeed said:
I was fortunate enough to watch all guises of the Panoz running at Le Mans and my feet are still numb as a consequence - but the difference is that the Panozs (especially the later roadster) looked unusually right rather than unusually wrong ? I'm all for diversity particularly at a time when LMP2 cars in particular are near-identical but Nissan are clearly thinking "outside the box" in a similar way to Aston Martin a few years back - and we know where that ended. My prediction is that if Nissan rocks up at La Sarthe for the Test Weekend with a car that looks anything like this they will struggle to match LMP2 pace - come back and taunt me in June if I'm wrong !!
I'd be surprised if they rock up and are miles off the pace unless something is spectacularly wrong and not one incredibly clever engineer fails to spot it by then.Edited by moffspeed on Thursday 22 January 13:16
Edited by moffspeed on Thursday 22 January 13:19
The Aston thing was purely their own fault, they were aware of the cars problem after qualifying and decided to not switch the parts for the heavier but more reliable alternative. Sadly their own ignorance in that case was their downfall.
Fair play to Nissan for at least doing something different though, it's certainly in keeping with the GTR-LM idea rather than just pure branding, more 98% branding
Justaredbadge said:
Have you tried reading the analysis on the mullsannes corner website? If not, please do.
The rear wing is a later addition because it will be running without one at lm. The car has a huge focus on that race alone as it is designed purely to minimise drag; hence the smaller rear tyres than fronts.
no point I me trying to repeat what Mike Fuller has already written.
Thanks for that - fascinating. This genuinely excites me now. So glad that Nissan haven't produced an Audorschota clone and have done their own thing.The rear wing is a later addition because it will be running without one at lm. The car has a huge focus on that race alone as it is designed purely to minimise drag; hence the smaller rear tyres than fronts.
no point I me trying to repeat what Mike Fuller has already written.
Massive BHP,skinny tyres and low drag body, reminds me of something from the past. Will they give Roger Dorchy a shot of brandy, tape over the cooling ducts, slot him into the car in the midst of the night and go for 400 kph ???
Edited by moffspeed on Thursday 22 January 19:39
PW said:
samvia said:
From Twitter:
In October 2013 Oriol Folch Garcia modeled and rendered a Panoz LMP concept.https://madfolchismad.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/pan...
In my defence, it was from a German article and my German doesn't extend far past "Ich bin zwolf jahre alt".
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