Porsche LMP1 Breaks Cover

Housey · 12 Jun 2013 at 15:07

Looks, err, looks like an LMP1

barmyllama · 12 Jun 2013 at 15:34

Not sure on the paint job.

But it's the stop watch that counts.

Abraxaz1 · 12 Jun 2013 at 17:53

barmyllama said:
Not sure on the paint job.

But it's the stop watch that counts.

looks interesting mainly around the nose cone, i wish there was a kitcar that looked like these. (and that i had the money to build one)

Skeeter · 12 Jun 2013 at 20:53

Looks like they have gone for the Audi style fat nose rather than the thin pointy front like the Toyota and Peugeot.

The paint job is standard prototype camo to stop people being able to photograph it. Hasn't really worked.

All it needs now is Webber driving it

FrankJH · 13 Jun 2013 at 04:00

That looks hideous (and while reasoning above sounds reasonable, its a massive fail lol)

Is the shape of that air intake standard, it looks rather basic in shape and could surely be more aero-ly designed?

ShakenNstirred · 13 Jun 2013 at 13:24

Skeeter said:
Looks like they have gone for the Audi style fat nose rather than the thin pointy front like the Toyota and Peugeot.

The paint job is standard prototype camo to stop people being able to photograph it. Hasn't really worked.

All it needs now is Webber driving it

its not really to stop it being photographed its meant to help stop you seeing all the detail/shape etc on the body

Jonny69 · 13 Jun 2013 at 13:59

The aero on the car looks very basic to me. Not like Audi or Toyota are using at all.

Flibster · 13 Jun 2013 at 15:29

Jonny69 said:
The aero on the car looks very basic to me. Not like Audi or Toyota are using at all.

Launch spec perhaps. Just to make sure the base car meets expectations, then start bolting on the go faster bits.

Korsun · 23 Jun 2013 at 19:47

The aero on the car looks very basic to me. Not like Audi or Toyota are using at all.

Hmmm I think Porsche more than anyone else knows how to build a LMP1 car.....

Ceryndrion · 25 Jun 2013 at 15:33

I suspect that the irony is, that car is probably designed to current specs, and next year, certain things will have to change, due to changes in a large number of specifications..

http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers...rence_de_presse/technical_regulation_2014.pdf

panthro · 25 Jun 2013 at 15:40

Ceryndrion said:
I suspect that the irony is, that car is probably designed to current specs, and next year, certain things will have to change, due to changes in a large number of specifications..

http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers...rence_de_presse/technical_regulation_2014.pdf

Do you honestly think Porsche (or anyone else with the budget to build an LMP1 car) is going to build a 2014 car to 2013 specs? :confused:

rpstewart · 25 Jun 2013 at 20:19

Porsche announced the LMP1 programme in 2012 when there was still plenty of time to develop a 2013 car but they made it clear that they were targetting 2014 simply because that was the start of a period of rules stability. There was never any question of there being a 2013 spec car.

Ceryndrion · 26 Jun 2013 at 17:05

panthro said:
Do you honestly think Porsche (or anyone else with the budget to build an LMP1 car) is going to build a 2014 car to 2013 specs?

I would hope not, but then, would you have expected mclaren to build a car with a major part of it, mounted upside down?

Stranger things have happened..

Nismo · 27 Jun 2013 at 09:13

Webber confirmed to be leaving F1 for Porsche.

rpstewart · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:14

So Webber, Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Neel Jani signed so far. That's probably the WEC line up with another couple of ex Audi guys coming in for Le Mans (assuming 2 cars each for Audi and Porsche)

hardly a weak team!

NightSt@lk3r · 27 Jun 2013 at 15:11

Wonder if Porsche will try and entice Ryan Briscoe back into the Porsche Prototype Program.

Jonny69 · 1 Jul 2013 at 12:57

rpstewart said:
So Webber, Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Neel Jani signed so far. That's probably the WEC line up with another couple of ex Audi guys coming in for Le Mans (assuming 2 cars each for Audi and Porsche)

hardly a weak team!

This is an epic line-up. LMP1 has some seriously big names in it at the moment :cool:

arknor · 1 Jul 2013 at 13:05

is this paint job legit or just designed to make seeing the lines and angles or the car harder to see?

Flibster · 1 Jul 2013 at 14:58

arknor said:
is this paint job legit or just designed to make seeing the lines and angles or the car harder to see?

It's a standard camo paintjob. Used by pretty much all car companies to hide the looks of their new cars.

McLaren have the best one on the prototype P1. It's fastastic. It's just drawings of racetracks. Want!

Nismo · 1 Jul 2013 at 15:07

Flibster said:
McLaren have the best one on the prototype P1. It's fastastic. It's just drawings of racetracks. Want!

Never realised that, awesome.

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