Glickenhaus to build carbon P4/5 successor
American investment tycoon and car nut to develop own carbonfibre chassis
Including none other than Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo. The Prancing Horse is more officious than a regional nightclub bouncer when it comes to controlling its branding, so when di Montezemolo said the car deserved official recognition as a product of Maranello, things got serious.
We're promised a beautiful body for this too
Until now.
By this time next year, Glickenhaus will have made the move to full-on constructor, as the New Yorker is set to build his very own carbonfibre chassis (that's chassis with a "ch"): the SCG 003. And it's quite the refreshing approach.
Unlike the McLaren P1, the LaFerrari and Porsche 918 Spyder , instead of chasing massive performance through increasingly complex technology, Glickenhaus is going old-school, saying, "Could it be that less is really more? That's what our new road car is going to be. Lighter, smaller, simpler and very beautiful."
A carbonfibre backbone is as good a place to start as any if lightness is your goal.
Can we have a beautiful name too?
"Our goals are similar power-to-weight as my Ferrari P3/4 and something that is a new, forward design where it's three wings are integrated into the form, like a Porsche 959's rear wing.
"I'm calling it the 003 as it's our third one off and it will have three integrated wings. It will be Dino Competizione sized. We're thinking carbonfibre tub, a twin-turbo V6 and a very sexy shape."
So a modern-day Dino that weighs around 810kg with roughly 430hp - sounds like Ambrosia (no, not the custard...) to us; closer to the car the Alfa Romeo 4C should have been.
On the subject of that engine - reportedly 3.5 litres in capacity - twin blowers and six cylinders in a V that can produce around 430hp points towards Ford's American-market Ecoboost engine.
Dino tribute will use a V6 and be c.800kg
"At the 'ring we were able to make 50 seconds of 50hp by recovering energy. We used GPS to trigger the system for a four-second burst on the next full throttle application after hard braking. Year-on-year we were 15 seconds a lap faster."
However, his desire to go back to basics and assertions that hybrid systems have added more cost and complexity means we're not holding our breath.
We'll know more in due course, before the road and race versions of the SCG 003 make their debuts at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, after which they'll be packed off to Nurburg for the car's first N24. Lets hope it's ready in time.
SCG 003 vid here.
[Sources: Road&Track , p45c.com]
The Competizione was a bit funny looking, too much like a RUF CTR3 at the rear, but the original P4/5 is fantastic.
Plus the that CF chassis looks the business, seems like they are minimising any excess materials by having a complete chassis.
Thanks for comments. It looks like we will be building customer cars as well with the goal to Homologate as a GTLM so that we could race at Le Mans, Sebring and Daytona. The base price will be 2MM euros. The car will be road legal in Europe, The Middle East, Asia and possibly as a "Homebuilt/Kit" in the US and could be RT hand drive if desired. The car will be easily converted from Road to Race and the roll cage will be removable. We will debut at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show and Then race at the Nurburgring and the 24. I'm happy to report that we serious interest customer. I can be reached through p45c.com
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1000kg with steel tubes.
The chassis is very lightweight and simple. The Ribs which bolt onto our chassis are time proven superleggera panel fitment (the panels will be CF) that allow very light weight overall construction that is strong enough to take the CFD level of downforce this car will create with low drag. 20 MPH higher VMAX at the Ring with 40 less HP than P 4/5 Competizione. The engine will be semi stressed and the chassis is so strong that the roll cage will be allowed to be unbolted on the road. As we move along we will confirm in a rolling road full scale wind tunnel but when the flag drops at the Ring the BS will stop. (One way or another) Our race engine is not Ford. It will be developed by us and carry SCG branding. Road cars will have several engine choices including a TDIV8 Petrol engine that should give our road version a 1/1 Kilo to HP ratio should one desire. We will race at the Ring in SP-X with a bit of ballast and about 540 HP as dictated by the regulations.
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