by "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
Published 12/25/2017 at 08:15
by "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
Published 12/25/2017 at 08:15
Tags: Ultracar
; Hypercar
; EVO Global Hypercar Series
STARS: 3
Look at the drawings of Marco van Overbeeke, and marvel at how he can be able to take these ultracars to their logical conclusion .
"Tareim - V8 powered" (tareimgaml)
12/25/2017 at 08:45, STARS: 0
They look awesome and someone needs to make this happen for real
"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
12/25/2017 at 09:25, STARS: 0
They look awesome
Indeed
and someone needs to make this happen for real
but it will never come to be because hypercars are too expensive as it is, and grooming them to compete will lead to an arms race that, as demonstrated time and time again in motor racing, kills classes.
The McLaren F1 GTR was an anomaly. The greatest car in the world was never meant to race, but because someone decided to group-buy the factory just went with it. Not to say that modern hypercars aren’t the greatest cars in the world nor are they incapable of lasting (winning?) Le Mans, but being a Le Mans-winning road car was considerably easier with the economics of 1994, and developing the P1 costed more than the F1 (also GT is capped by rules and LMP1 is, frankly, way too fast and explosive out of corners, and if you try to build the 918 to LMP1-spec you’re wasting money).
Also, I don’t really think the F1 needed to prove on track that it was the greatest car in the world, because it beat the fastest car in the world that time (Jaguar XJ220) and was miles beyond what the 959 and F40—the two greatest cars in the world before the F1—were able to do.
Which means modern hypercars are, essentially, BoP’ed out of being Le Mans-winning cars, even if any one of them can win in 1994.
I, too, want these hypercars to race, but let’s be realistic—they’re in a class of their own. Their technology elevates them way past supercars, but they’ll never be as fast as LMP, nor will they be as tough or long-suffering.