ALMOST everything you wanted to know about the car Randy LE MANS: DeltaWing 101 With Ben Bowlby - Watch on SPEED
Thanks for the link Randy. Guess we will have to see if the reinvented wheel works. We'll know soon. I wish them luck & success.
From todays notes . The theory is proving out so far . Randy DELTAWING TIDBITS — The Nissan DeltaWing completed a staggering 500 miles on a single set of Michelin tires, between the laps run at the test day as well as Wednesday’s practice and qualifying. And it’s not only great tire wear but also excellent fuel mileage, as Ben Bowlby tells SPEED.com that he expects for it to run 12 laps... with a 40-liter fuel tank. Compare that to the diesel-powered Audis, which should run 13 laps on 63 liters.
If you remember the crude beginnings of the Top Gear DeltaWing knockoff, you might want to check out the finished product gallery attached to this article over on Jalopnik: Can You Tell The Difference Between Top Gear’s Fake DeltaWing And The Real One? Here's a sample:
Incredible! The DeltaWing is listed as first in class! Of course when there's only one car in your class you get to be both first and last at the same time. :biggrin5:
Right now the two Audis are the only cars on the lead lap! If this turns into an Audi rout, do you think they'll come back next year?
In one dumb move takajima takes out one of , if not the most, interesting car on the track and hands the LMP 1 win to Audi .The sponsors must be crying their eyes out. It would be interesting to see how much of a drop the viewership took from the 6 hr on . Such a shame no matter who you were rooting for. The 2102 six hours of Le mans , great race Randy
The Sun is the very bottom of the British newspaper food chain, but their DeltaWing crash article at least had some good headlines: Smack! Baddies wreck Batmobile BAM! Pow! Holy jeepers, the Batmobile has hit the wall!
The collision: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJAiZVuC3YI[/ame] Just a little of the hour and a half that Satoshi Motoyama spent trying to get the car drivable to get it back to the pits: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi_AsxRuyus[/ame] (Are there YouTube embed tags on this forum?)
Yes, but YouTube adds tricky bits of code these days that mess up embedding and create links to force you to click through back to YouTube so you can watch their commercials, etc. Fixed now.
Nissan's even shorter summary video of Satoshi's struggle: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJylUpzQ-iQ]HEROIC ATTEMPTS BY MOTOYAMA TO GET FANS' FAVOURITE - NISSAN DELTAWING - BACK ON TRACK - YouTube[/ame]