Nissan's DeltaWing! - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

RRnold · 03-13-2012, 07:17 PM

Holy Batman!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...?frame=2166566

ZetaVI · 03-13-2012, 07:21 PM

I didn't know Batman wanted to break land-speed records.

blur · 03-13-2012, 07:24 PM

Land speed records? I thought this was the new class for Le Mans?

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Marino Franchitti has been involved with testing the DeltaWing and will race the vehicle at Le Mans on June 16-17

yep.

Only has 300hp lol.

tranzformer · 03-13-2012, 07:29 PM

Cool. I kinda like it.

serialk11r · 03-13-2012, 07:31 PM

Is that narrow front track going to cause problems? I like the aero.

Dimman · 03-13-2012, 07:42 PM

Nissan had nothing to do with the development of that car. They are just supplying the motor. It will be running in the exhibition class at LeMans, and was actually developed from an Indycar replacement proposal.

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...-mans-project/

http://www.racetechmag.com/news/news.php?id=208

OrbitalEllipses · 03-13-2012, 07:47 PM

It's a Juke motor, more or less.

Dimman · 03-13-2012, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by serialk11r

Is that narrow front track going to cause problems? I like the aero.

It's apparently going to rely on some fancy torque-vectoring on the back for stability and turn-in.

old greg · 03-13-2012, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by serialk11r

Is that narrow front track going to cause problems?

Not necessarily. There's not a whole lot of weight on the front axle, since the wheels are so far forward, so there won't be much weight transfer / roll moment for the front tires to deal with.

Draco-REX · 03-13-2012, 09:14 PM

The deltawing takes some really interesting approaches at car handling dynamics.

Personally, I think it's going to be an unstable mess. We'll see how it does on the back sections of LeMans. But since most of that course is straight, its flaws won't be too apparent, unfortunately. I'd like to see it on an ALMS course.

The thing is, the DeltaWing was designed by coming up with the looks first, and then engineering a solution that would allow it to work. Which, in my opinion, is how you design a production car, but bass-ackwards when designing a racecar.

tranzformer · 03-13-2012, 09:55 PM

Would like to see it on a track with other cars around it, but it looks fairly stable in this video.

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Snoopyalien24 · 03-13-2012, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

It's a Juke motor, more or less.

We need that for the S16

tranzformer · 03-13-2012, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snoopyalien24

We need that for the S16

Could easily tune that for over 300hp.

M-17 · 03-14-2012, 01:52 AM

I want one.

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Draco-REX Corner Junkie Join Date: Feb 2012 Drives: 13 BRZ, 11 STI, 99 RS Location: Ohio Posts: 2,908 Thanks: 129 Thanked 1,520 Times in 702 Posts Mentioned: 11 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	The deltawing takes some really interesting approaches at car handling dynamics. Personally, I think it's going to be an unstable mess. We'll see how it does on the back sections of LeMans. But since most of that course is straight, its flaws won't be too apparent, unfortunately. I'd like to see it on an ALMS course. The thing is, the DeltaWing was designed by coming up with the looks first, and then engineering a solution that would allow it to work. Which, in my opinion, is how you design a production car, but bass-ackwards when designing a racecar.

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tranzformer Delights in pure handling Join Date: Apr 2011 Drives: Zoom Zoom Location: KS Posts: 4,854 Thanks: 0 Thanked 15 Times in 14 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Would like to see it on a track with other cars around it, but it looks fairly stable in this video. [u2b]3wlQAvEfmeI[/u2b]

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