|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
22 Feb 2005, 23:03 (Ref:1232922) | #1 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 517
|
New Reg LMP1 / 2
Moderator - merge as you will...
..but IMO the new reg cars are real ugly. The twin hoops and small rear wings are aesthetically unappealing. Things just look out of synch' and (dare I say it - ****). This is not to sleight the growing strength of LMES and the prototype ranks and yes, everything is relative (and in a pure world the new cars are real snorters) but this is purely a comparative note vis a vis the last generation and (dare I say it, my beloved and much lamented Group C) What do other readers think? |
|
|
22 Feb 2005, 23:23 (Ref:1232941) | #2 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 517
|
Quote:
|
||
|
22 Feb 2005, 23:27 (Ref:1232946) | #3 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 2,744
|
i need to see one in the flesh first.
|
|
__________________
I want you to drive flat out |
22 Feb 2005, 23:29 (Ref:1232949) | #4 | |
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,102
|
Early signs were not encouraging (I'm thinking of Nasamax in particular) but Lola have done a wonderful job with the B05/40. The proportions are right and the overall look of the car is breathtakingly beautiful (I might have gone a little over the top there!). Although the aeros need to be far less expansive, designers can overcome this, and in Lola's case, already have.
I think we need to wait until 2006 when a couple of German factories will offer their interpretation of the modern prototype. |
|
|
22 Feb 2005, 23:35 (Ref:1232957) | #5 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 517
|
Bentley03 -yep I concur. Lets wait for Ingolstadt (surely), Stuttgart (hopefully) and Coventry ( I dream) to reveal their interpretations.
|
|
|
22 Feb 2005, 23:50 (Ref:1232970) | #6 | ||
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,102
|
Quote:
|
||
|
23 Feb 2005, 00:12 (Ref:1232990) | #7 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 1,761
|
i really dont mind them now... i think that the B05/40 has a really cool, Can-Am type feel to it
|
|
|
23 Feb 2005, 06:13 (Ref:1233112) | #8 | ||
Racer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 264
|
There is a difference that is quite noticable.
To the untrained eye, there is nothing that looks SO out of the ordinary. Like what is said...wait for Coventry, Stuttgart, and maybe even Maranello |
||
__________________
Foster's The View From the Cheap Seats |
23 Feb 2005, 11:16 (Ref:1233391) | #9 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 7,618
|
Quote:
maranello .. what what what .. wishful thinking .. |
|||
__________________
Apocalypse becomes creation / Gor-Gor shall erase the nation Before you leap into his gizzard / Fall and worship Tyrant lizard Ciao Marco |
23 Feb 2005, 17:10 (Ref:1233697) | #10 | ||
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 18,876
|
Quote:
|
||
|
23 Feb 2005, 22:54 (Ref:1233966) | #11 | ||
Racer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 264
|
Hey come on now...we all have these kind of moments....when we're on acid that is...
Maybe a car from the land of the rising sun than? |
||
__________________
Foster's The View From the Cheap Seats |
23 Feb 2005, 23:04 (Ref:1233974) | #12 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,721
|
Whatever happened to rumours of a SARD/Toyota prototype?
|
||
__________________
Interviewer: "Will the McLaren F1 be your answer to the Ferrari F40?" Gordon Murray: "Hmm... I don't think we have anyone at McLaren who can weld that badly..." |
23 Feb 2005, 23:48 (Ref:1233998) | #13 | |
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,102
|
DSC has some fine pics of the new Binnie Lola taken at the factory this morning.
|
|
|
24 Feb 2005, 09:13 (Ref:1234224) | #14 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 3,580
|
Quote:
|
|||
__________________
Oops |
24 Feb 2005, 16:49 (Ref:1234616) | #15 | ||
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 18,876
|
Quote:
|
||
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
New AER engine for LMP1... | Fab | Sportscar & GT Racing | 4 | 27 Jul 2005 12:31 |
LMP1 & LMP2 | Barry Boor | Sportscar & GT Racing | 3 | 16 May 2005 22:46 |
Zytek LMP1 | JAG | Sportscar & GT Racing | 1 | 31 Mar 2005 20:35 |
Next Year In LMP1 | tblincoe | Sportscar & GT Racing | 28 | 14 May 2004 20:35 |
Lmp1 | Edmonton | Sportscar & GT Racing | 4 | 3 Feb 2004 08:35 |