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Old 21 Jul 2010, 11:15 (Ref:2730067)   #1
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Lola launches glimpse of 2011 car.

Computer renders of what thier 2011-spec car will look like here:

http://www.lolacars.com/newsstory.asp?NewsId=260
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 11:25 (Ref:2730071)   #2
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Thanks for the link, DF.

What is the major difference in the B11/40 LMP2 and the current Lola LMP2, besides the shark fin?

Good looking car, as standard from Lola.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 12:06 (Ref:2730088)   #3
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Looks nice, the shark fin dosnt look half as bad as i thought it would.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 12:13 (Ref:2730094)   #4
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Shark fins....

The Ford 2L turbo is the Mountune tuned engine which is used by Arena in BTCC?
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 12:19 (Ref:2730099)   #5
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Shark fin make the baby jesus sad. On the other hand it's good to see Lola leading the way in LMP2 for the new regulations. It's also nice to see the return of the open top Lola as well. I always missed the open roof Lola since everyone has started running the closed roof car, even if it is a fabulous looking race car.

Anyone care to remind me as to the new LMP2 regs?

I seem to remember it being along the lines of 900kilos and production derived engines with about 400-450bhp?
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 12:22 (Ref:2730100)   #6
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I seem to remember it being along the lines of 900kilos and production derived engines with about 400-450bhp?
That's pretty much spot on, I'd say.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 12:31 (Ref:2730107)   #7
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That's pretty much spot on, I'd say.
Fantastic, seems my memory is'nt that rusty after all then.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 13:01 (Ref:2730127)   #8
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Shark fins....

The Ford 2L turbo is the Mountune tuned engine which is used by Arena in BTCC?
I was wondering what engines they had in mind when the press release mentioned Ford and Toyota engines.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 13:04 (Ref:2730131)   #9
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Shark fins....

The Ford 2L turbo is the Mountune tuned engine which is used by Arena in BTCC?
The Mountune one is LPG - is that legal in 2011 rules LMPs?

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I was wondering what engines they had in mind when the press release mentioned Ford and Toyota engines.
A V8. Presumably actually based on one used in a Lexus road car.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 13:08 (Ref:2730135)   #10
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Last year the Mountune 2L turbo was petrol.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 13:09 (Ref:2730139)   #11
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Hmm, there is also a Ford V6 that was run in the smaller Marcos Mantis in DSC a few years ago - but I'll be damned if I can remember who that one was built by.

EDIT: Might have confused my English cottage builders - The Ginetta G50 has a 3.5l Ford V6 as well.

Don't forget that Judd is suppossed to be working on a new P2 engine so the Toyota or the Ford could be the Judd project.

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Old 21 Jul 2010, 13:20 (Ref:2730141)   #12
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perhaps will have the new AJ-V8 GEN III JAGUAR
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 13:42 (Ref:2730154)   #13
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The fin looks terrible and I don't see any way you could make it look less out of place.
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 14:15 (Ref:2730170)   #14
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Got to say I'm disappointed. I feel that the car is starting to look very dated, this 2011 version looks similar to a B06/10 at the front! An update should look, well, updated! The shark fin is ugly, guess it makes more room for sponsor decals though.

How is a Judd engine production derived?
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 14:31 (Ref:2730181)   #15
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If they're tuning someone else's production engine
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 14:37 (Ref:2730183)   #16
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So not really a Judd engine then! Judd could theoretically tune any engine, so does every production engine fit?
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 17:11 (Ref:2730242)   #17
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 20:56 (Ref:2730343)   #18
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that´s so boring...(design) is about the same that the older versions.

i would like to see something "NEW" something fresh, audacious, dashing...
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that´s so boring...(design) is about the same that the older versions.

i would like to see something "NEW" something fresh, audacious, dashing...
I don't really expect anything revolutionary in a class where cost is the main point. Lola (or any other manufacturer) really has their hands tied in regards to creativity.

So cars that may be in the 2011 p2 regs:
Lola with a base design half a decade old
Oreca with a base design just as old
Norma with a new design
Radical with an old design
Riley with a new design possible for 2012

But I see the interest in the class being generated by the much larger list of potential engines available to teams: HPD, Ford, BMW, Corvette, Nissan, Toyota.
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uhh, eliminate Corvette from that group as the LMP2 engine size spec for homologated is between 4 & 4.5L, and diesel is at 4.4L.

HPD & Nissan may go for V6, Ford may go for their former 4.2L V8, and BMW, Toyota, Porsche, and even Ferrari will use their V8s.

This could get real interesting...
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Old 21 Jul 2010, 21:36 (Ref:2730361)   #22
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Race Car engineering has a more detailed list of the available engines:
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· BMW V8

· Ford 2.0litre turbo

· HPD V6 turbo

· Jaguar V8 N/A

· Judd V8 N/A

· Nissan V8 N/A

· Toyota V8 N/A
I wonder what's up with the mention of Judd in there...

I could easily see the new LMP2s becoming the backbone of the regional Le Mans series with the LMP1s becoming an ILMC-only category eventually, especially if *some* factory backing for P2 can be found.
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Nice R18-esque sidepods there.
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Renderings of the 2011 P-2 coupe are now in their gallery.






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Hmmm. I wonder if that 'fin' can be retro fitted?

Ain't it just plain Fugly?
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