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It does indeed:

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It's been confirmed the car will use Nissan 1.6l I4 turbo engines, producing ~300hp.

It must be so weird for the drivers having to leave a metre gap to the apex to allow for the rear wheels.
 
Covered in Nissan stickers. Just the engine? Or are they more involved?

And yeah, having to deliberately miss the apex with the front wheels must be odd.

Genuinly excited to see how this goes. Any write-up or news on its shakedown runs?
 
Not sure how involved Nissan are, but the car is now known as the Nissan Deltawing. Whether that's just part of the engine deal is anyone's guess at the mo.

No details of testing, but here's website if you want to keep updated.
 
Hmm, that image is a photoshop, the driver seat is on the other side to what it is in the video.

But still, looks epic! Loving the number 0 too!
 
Engine is a 1.6 Turbocharged unit producing around 300bhp. I'm assuming its a 4 pot too. Looks like 1.6T's are slowly taking over the world!
 
If memory serves there was once a FIA plan to have base 1600 block as the engine for all forms of motor racing, the engine would simply have different states of tune for different race.

No turbo- low league
small turbo- WRC/Touring cars
medium turbo- GT
big turbo- lemans
big turbo+kers- F1

It was meant as a massive budget saver but many team who manufacture their own engines were very much against the plans but it would be of no great surprise if things are gradually nudged that way over a decade or so.
 
Yep, the FIA's 'Global Engine' plan (or some name like that).

WRC, F1, WTCC were all to move to 1.6T to start with. Everyone complained, the plan got binned, but then it very nearly happened anyway. WRC and WTCC are both 1.6T now, and F1 was very close to it.

It makes sense considering that 1.6T's are becoming very common in road cars.
 
dalin80 said:
If memory serves there was once a FIA plan to have base 1600 block as the engine for all forms of motor racing, the engine would simply have different states of tune for different race.

No turbo- low league
small turbo- WRC/Touring cars
medium turbo- GT
big turbo- lemans
big turbo+kers- F1

It was meant as a massive budget saver but many team who manufacture their own engines were very much against the plans but it would be of no great surprise if things are gradually nudged that way over a decade or so.
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Formula 1 will actually be moving away from KERs to more general energy recovery systems. One of the sources of power will be linking an MGU to the turbines of the turbos themselves.

Skeeter said:
Yep, the FIA's 'Global Engine' plan (or some name like that).

WRC, F1, WTCC were all to move to 1.6T to start with. Everyone complained, the plan got binned, but then it very nearly happened anyway. WRC and WTCC are both 1.6T now, and F1 was very close to it.

It makes sense considering that 1.6T's are becoming very common in road cars.
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The 1.6t was a requirement put forward by VAG when Audi were considering F1. The moment Audi decided against F1 the engine regs were changed to the v6 turbo now considered.
 
Alibaba99 said:
The 1.6t was a requirement put forward by VAG when Audi were considering F1. The moment Audi decided against F1 the engine regs were changed to the v6 turbo now considered.
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It was a combination of that, and the existing teams for whom 1.6 turbos bare no relevance to their road cars (Ferrari and Mercedes) throwing a massive hissy fit.

What were left with is an engine format that has no relevance to any road car maker! Has there every been a 1.6 V6 Turbo in a mass produced road car? Or any V6 Turbo for that matter?
 
Jonny69 said:
What's an 'MGU'?
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Motor Generator Unit

Skeeter said:
It was a combination of that, and the existing teams for whom 1.6 turbos bare no relevance to their road cars (Ferrari and Mercedes) throwing a massive hissy fit.

What were left with is an engine format that has no relevance to any road car maker! Has there every been a 1.6 V6 Turbo in a mass produced road car? Or any V6 Turbo for that matter?
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Plenty of turbocharged v6 diesels, and Audi make supercharged v6s. Plus Saab and GM have both used turbo v6s in various 9000s,9-3s,9-5s,Vectras and Insignias.
 
Video of the R18 E-Tron in testing from a couple of weeks ago:


There's a video from last year of the Peugeot hybrid car in testing too:

 
Theres are no 908's listed on the entry list, but there are 2 chassis branded as Pescarolo, so could be based on the 908 tub as rpstewart said.

Did I read somewhere that the Delta Wing is using the AMR-One tub?
 
I can't quite work out what Pescarolo are entering, but it looks like a mishmash of Peugeot and AMR-1 (Lola? Dome?) chassis and Judd engines. Yes, the DeltaWing is using the AMR-1 tub.
 
So going on the entry list:

Car 15, the OAK Pescarolo 01-Judd, is the OAK racing team with a Pescarolo 01 car and a Judd engine. OAK were campaigning the Gulf-liveried Astons last year?

Car 16, the Pescarolo 03-Judd, is the Pescarolo team in the AMR-One tub with a Judd engine.

Car 17, the Dome S102.5-Judd, is the Pescarolo team in an updated Dome S102 with a Judd engine.

Have I got that right?
 
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