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2012 24 Hrs of LeMans DeltaWing Prototype

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Originally Posted by whitlock
Wondered the same thing when I saw it at Road Atlanta. This is their responce:

"Locking propensity of the un-laden front wheel at corner entry is greatly reduced due to virtually no lateral load transfer with the narrow front track/wide rear track layout, steered wheel “scrub drag” moment is virtually zero greatly increasing tire utilization and reducing mid turn understeer."

??????? Anyone with a mechanical engineering degree care to explain?
I believe Enzo Ferrari said the same thing back when he first started racing. But it failed.

I can only see the inside front tire having no grip because it will roll with such a narrow track width. I thought it was designed for Indy 500? Makes more sense on an oval.

I guess we will see when it races.
 
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If this design works, will it change the history ? I mean, like tyrrell's raised nose F1 car...
 
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IF this actually does make it out there, I'm going to laugh the whole race. I don't care if it's 20x faster than everything else, this CANNOT be the future of sports car racing, it's hideous. If for some reason this does become the new thing, count me in at the vintage races.

It was designed for Indy, they laughed though so the designer made it look like a two seater, through some "lights" on it and called it an LMP car. Sadly someone bought it.
 

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It's going to look like a middle finger on 4 wheels when this passes other cars at the track.
 
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Interesting design that they have been trying to get running in a series for a while.. but a 5 speed transmission with a small turbo 4 hi revving engine just doesn't seem to me it would work to well with the long straights and slow chicanes around Le Mans..
 
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Is it just the camera angle or is that a ridiculously long wheel base for a road course car?
 
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