"bryan40oop" (bryan40oop)
07/16/2015 at 14:14 • Filed to: None
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I tried to tell everyone a FWD LMP1 car was silly. There is no way they can drop 20sec off their lap time at la sarthe with this current platform. Ben Bowley has wonderful off the wall designs, but that’s all they have been thus far unfortunately.
GhostZ
> bryan40oop
07/16/2015 at 14:36 |
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There was the fact that it was supposed to be making 1250HP but issues with the drivetrain meant it was making significantly less, keep that in mind. The advantages of the FWD layout was the superior engine cooling for the higher temperature, and the better rear aero design, but if your engine just isn’t using that power then it defeats the purpose, really.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> GhostZ
07/16/2015 at 14:44 |
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Agreed. It basically was a giant rocketship on the long straights so without the oomph, it would be an awful design. The hybrid system was also supposed to power the rears as well so it is much more AWD than pure FWD. But as it ran, it was FWD.
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bryan40oop
> GhostZ
07/16/2015 at 15:16 |
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.ph…
The rear hybrid system only accounts to ~4 sec per lap as said by the nissan team themselves.
“Cox stated that Nissan’s simulations suggested that 8MJ of hybrid boost would be worth four seconds per lap at Le Mans.”
That still leavs ~14-16 sec off pace per lap.
And they did have hybrid power on the FWD portion just not the rear.
“The transmission arrangement designed to send power retrieved from the front axle to the Nissan’s narrow rear wheels proved unreliable on the dyno and has yet to run on the car.
This forced Nissan to retrieve and deploy via the front wheels and to downgrade to the 2MJ division.”
It’s a failure. Neat idea, but neat idea’s don’t always perform to expectations.