"Joest" (Joest)
12/22/2015 at 10:18 • Filed to: None
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"Joest" (Joest)
12/22/2015 at 10:18 • Filed to: None | 2
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http://www.dailysportscar.com/2015/12/22/nis…
What an embarrassment for them. That's what happens when you do not take Le Mans seriously.
EL_ULY
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 10:20 |
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I never got to see it in person :’(
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 10:20 |
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This is more embarrassing than being slow and unreliable. I’d rather see them give it a serious go and fail than just give up.
f86sabre
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 10:22 |
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That’s a shame. While they made some interesting choices, they were willing to think outside the box and that should be applauded.
Tareim - V8 powered
> EL_ULY
12/22/2015 at 10:23 |
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it was an odd thing to behold in person, I managed to see it (static on a display) at Goodwood, annoyingly they blocked the venturi tunnels so you couldn’t see through them or take pics of it
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EL_ULY
> Tareim - V8 powered
12/22/2015 at 10:25 |
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i’ll take your work for it. Seeing it like that would of been enough for me. Maybe in a museum only now. Shame :(
Wheelerguy
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 10:25 |
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If only that 1 year-old rule applied to LMP’s...
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Tareim - V8 powered
> EL_ULY
12/22/2015 at 10:30 |
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Here’s my pics of it
and here is the awesome front top mounted exhaust exit
Clemsie McKenzie
> EL_ULY
12/22/2015 at 10:39 |
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I saw it at Le Mans. You could clearly see its weaknesses there. Front brakes ablaze at every corner, the front end skipping over every bump, fighting for traction. It must have been infuriating for LMP2 cars, much faster on braking and corner exit, but caught up in the long straights.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. A bit sad to not have seen what it would have done with the full ERS system.
Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 10:48 |
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Fail at Le Mans and that’s it? Not try again? No improvement? Unless they are going to be upgrading and improving all of 2016 to dominate the race in 2017. Maybe...just maybe this project is going under top secret testing and development.
TheHondaBro
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
12/22/2015 at 10:51 |
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But that’s a lot of money down the toilet.
Teleph0nes
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 10:53 |
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When this car was first announced, you know what I thought of? The “missile cars” as they were known back in my Forza 2, 3, and 4 days.
For those not familiar: You would take a relatively low ranking car, like a CRX or one of the 60’s muscle cars, and essentially max out the power while doing almost nothing to the handling. At some point in Forza’s performance calculator, the ranking of your car would actually start going down again as long as you kept the stock tires, tire width, etc. The whole point was to be as fast as possible down the straights with little regard for turning aside from “get through it.”
These cars would be at the top of the leaderboards for hot-laps around the tracks with long straights and relatively simple turns (Road America, Le Mans, etc). However, in multiplayer where there were other cars on the road, they were almost useless if collisions were on.
The whole premise of the Nissan reminds me of the LMP version of that, and it worked out about the same. Funny.
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EL_ULY
> Clemsie McKenzie
12/22/2015 at 10:56 |
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true true. And yes, it’s easy to see when cars are not dialed in
PushToStart
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 11:02 |
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Can’t wait for the Jalopnik article 10 years in the future about the weirdest forgotten race cars... This will surely be on it. Shame it was so unsuccessful, but that’s racing for you. It happens
wiffleballtony
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 11:14 |
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Good.
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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> TheHondaBro
12/22/2015 at 12:51 |
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It is. I can’t help but wonder if Renault buying Lotus has anything to do with it.
banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> Joest
12/22/2015 at 13:59 |
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This does not surprise me, and I shed not one tear.
They could likely see the writing on the wall that, among other things the marketing game of Audi, Porsche and the like are so much stronger in LeMans...a front wheel driving Nissan that the drivers don’t even enjoy driving (a bigger contributor of its failures than most would give credit, I think) gets lost in the noise to everyone but the biggest car geeks.