just hope they will dump to atmosphere after that turbine contraption



(that thing is bigger than my head)

There is a lot of discussion, but most ideas regarding track safety on the public road bits boiled down to the fact that those roads are used as normal roads for ~350 days a year, and only for two races (24h and some motorcycle race). Residents don't want to have stuff in front of their gardens thats more or less useless in normal traffic. And for years it worked OK like this.

Now with Alans death I hope they do bigger changes. Some simple tire barriers might have done the trick

don't forget that this was probably recorded in a small, tiled engine dyno room, with the headers pointed into an exhaust funnel thingy



the new engines will be a lot quieter, due to the turbo and the KERS turbine. But thats not a bad thing, todays F1 engines are painfully loud anyway.

Quote from Mustafur :

No way would they use a production engine as a base, it will be purpose built for this car.

Its not a touring car.

Most LMP engines are somewhat based on production engines. Judd engines have a BMW basis, Austin Martins AMR-One was half a V12, Zytek-Nissan should be clear, the AER turbo shares a lot with the Duratecs and so on. With Peugeots and Audis diesels its different of course, but they do it the other way round and give a lot of development data back into production engineering.
And given that these engines are build for endurance it just makes sense
(Toyotas RV8 is a pure race engine with no base that I know of (its not related to the UZ or UR -series) - but it's used in a number of series (Super GT, Formular Nippon etc.))

Porsche does not need to show off that it makes great petrol engines - everyone knows that. The Hybrid system on the other hand is what people look upon nowadays.

edit: "production based" is a very loose word here of course. They might mill the complete engine from a block of forget aluminium and used whatever exotic material you can think of.

Last edited by ACCAkut, Mon 24 Jun 2013, 13:07.

I guess there will be a bit of shuffeling with engines next year. is there anywhere to compare this years and next years regs? I remember the new ones focussing more on energy spent rather than displacement etc.

Porsche may use more or less every engine the VAG group has to offer as baseline. The Cayenne S Hybrids 3.0 VR6 may be a good basis for a single turbo 2.0 unit. The VR6s layout may make packaging easier, as all the "hot stuff" is on one side. And its a compact proofen engine.



I read about a V8 being favoured, but that was years ago.

surprised the Toyota can still drive fine. mirros that incident from Audi last year (or was it the year before?)


hehe, other tracks have tow vehicles, Lemans has man power (ten guys towing the crashed LMp2 around)

edit: I want that LMP spinning from Audi onboard POV as a gif, with sunglasses and "Deal with it"

Last edited by ACCAkut, Sun 23 Jun 2013, 12:04.

Comes rain and they fall/spin like the flies

that just happened yesterday at the venue we went to



"So you have different laws here? Don't care, they are wrong!"

sorry that I have a real live and went out with some friends for a few hours :P

Simonsens death really downs the mood and an article about it one a major german news site is already being spamend by eco-hipsters condemning his death as a sign for the decent of motosport, while other commenters yell at the motorsport community for not mourning as much for every child dying of Aids in Africa. German commenters are weird (at last on spiegel.de)

the british commentary is so much better than the german guys. As always those focus solely on Audi and Manthey, and have no idea whatsoever about the cars. Watched a little of it in German during second quali. They couldn't even tell that the Toyota is running a N/A engine.

what happened to the Audis? Only two still running?

Last edited by ACCAkut, Sat 22 Jun 2013, 21:42.

video of Simonsens crash, from the Corvette onboard camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch? ... mbedded&v=T_ITXBv01io

Given the current state of the Live For Speed part of the name Victor would probably do that if you ask nicely. At least rename the Off-Topic

of course you can, but if you can choose between converting a knife-edged N/A engine and slotting in one thats been designed for turbo use from stock the choice is pretty easy. And last year Jeff Zwart ran around Pikes Peak in a GT2 RS for some sort of promotion.

sounds similar to this old gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?f ... e&v=nEjkjQam6_A#t=50s

Quote from TypeRacing :

Maybe GT3 Cup chassis and GT2 engine because my ears spotted turbo

seems like it, look at 0:24 in that vid, the car has no sidescoops like the GT2 has. From the vid it sound like the engine doesn't really like mid-throttle positions.

I wish people would stop bringing those injected shitboxes into motorsport, leave it for airplanes. Whats wrong with carburettors?

only wondering what will happen with that hydrogen running team that should have taken Garage 52 this year, as they were deemed not ready yet. Are they allowed to start next year too?

Last edited by ACCAkut, Fri 21 Jun 2013, 15:36.

The owner of a gambling/casino thingy here owns a FAB Design tuned SLS. Still have to get a pic of it, always on my bike when I see it.

looks like this:

any luck in getting a link for the non-commentary stream?

that thing is dead. Its just a nervous system reaction to sodium in that sauce.

btw, you got that infraction through insulting me? cheers

Last edited by ACCAkut, Sat 22 Jun 2013, 05:28.

did you try the International version deggis linked to in his Le Mans thread?

then open one. Links do work in Germany btw