Nissan's DeltaWing!
 

Holy Batman!!

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

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

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

edit:

yep.

Only has 300hp lol.

Cool. I kinda like it.

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

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

It's a Juke motor, more or less.

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

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.

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.

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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We need that for the S16

:word: Could easily tune that for over 300hp. :)

I want one.