Some clarification on the Pescarolo C60...

First
Courage C60 = LMP1 (LMP900) Chassis
Courage C65 = LMP2 (LMP600) Chassis

Ok , now on the Pescarolo C60 Hybrid...

The Pescarolo badged cars are in fact Courage C60s. But bascially Henri Pescarolo developed them enough on his own to infact rebadge them as his own.

"Disapointed with the pace of the C60, Pescarolo hired Andre de Cortanze to revise his C60s. De Cortanze had previously designed the much acclaimed, but ill-fated Toyota TS020 GT1 racer. In an attempt to exploit the regulations to the maximum, De Cortanze designed new 'wing endplates', which doubled as wing mounts. The wing mounted endplates were limited in size by the rules, however this was overcome by mounting the endplates on the body. The only setback was that the wing could not be full width, as the rules also indicated that the wing mounts could only be 165 cm apart."

Pescarolo's modifications were strictly to bodywork and mechanical, structurally they have not been touched much.

Here is a pic:



More detailed info here:

http://www.mulsannescorner.com/couragec60-05.html


-Bern

 

from the start of the program many team members complaing about the chassis performance, the las time I saw a courage it was not much faster in racing conditions, about 2 seconds if memory serve right, and that was a complete C65, so I would expec at least a 2 second improvement wiht a new chassis.

 

Well, I'm off to Laguna early tomorrow am. Not sure what I'll see but will try to get pix and pass them along. Lets hope "Monumental" has to do with adding another rotating "thing." That would be the icing on what I anticipate will be a fun 3 days.

 

You suck but have fun and be safe!!

 

have fun! hope mazda has something good for us!!!!!

 

Bern, when are you going to be able to tell us the news?

Is mazda going to make a press realese or a presentation or something?

please I have a heart condition dont make me wait any longer!!!!!!!!!

 

One more day to find out where my loyalties as an ALMS fan lie.

 

boing boing boing...
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yesterday practice time was 1:23.xxx thats 10 seconds behind the porches and 6 seconds of the other cars

today's practice starts in less then and hour

 

Haha I'll still watch it now that speed is broadcasting this live. I just want to listen to the high pitch 3-rotor scream! I hope they finish the race this time.

6secs is a little less than petite lemans right?
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Nope it's pretty much the same.

 

News update from Mulsanne's corner about ACO regulations for 2007

"The only other prototype adjustments to note are a 5% restrictor size reduction for LMP2, thus reigning in the performance of the LMP2s relative to LMP1. With this the ACO is aiming at a 1.5% lap time difference and noted that if hasn't been achieved, then further adjustments will be made at the end of the year."

Even tho its 5% for all the LMP2, but the reduction would probably hurt the rotary more than pistons.
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maybe not, maybe the rotary can retaing its restrictor size, that would make the rotary a little more competitive

 

PRACTICE COMPLETE, BEST TIME 1:22.329

the others improve on their time too

1:22.004 they are getting better

http://www.imsaracing.net/2003/lt/ltc.html

 

They are still running afternoon practice (2.55pm PST). I'll report as soon as it's done.

CURRENT

Porsche
P2 1 Romain Dumas 1:14.374 108.32mph

Mazda BK
P2 6 Jamie Bach 1:21.722 98.58mph

-7.348 seconds



-Bern

 

They run the same lap time as all the GT1 cars..... I think the Courage should put some yellow headlights on.
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Here is the final times for afternoon practice

P2 1 Romain Dumas 1:14.374 108.32 Porsche RS Spyder Penske Motorsports Michelin --

P2 2 Sascha Maassen 1:15.116 107.25 Porsche RS Spyder Penske Motorsports Michelin --

P2 3 Stuart Moseley 1:16.957 104.69 Radical SR9 AER Bruichaddich Radical --

P2 4 Ben Devlin 1:18.714 102.35 Radical SR 9 AER van der Steur Racing Inc Kumho --

P2 5 Didier Theys 1:19.899 100.83 Lola R05/40 Judd Horag - Racing Michelin --

P2 6 Jamie Bach 1:21.722 98.58 Courage C65 Mazda B-K Motorsports Kumho --


-Bern

 

If it wasn't for a earlier accident to the P2 Lola B05/40 AER Intersport Racing team car, BK would've been running around in 7th (last) in P2...

The Intersport team will be doing the race though.

-Bern

 

Sad to see such a good driver as Didier Theys running so far behind.

 

Qualifying coming up....

-Bern

 

Final Qualifying:

P2 1 Sascha Maassen 1:14.030 108.83 Porsche RS Spyder Penske Motorsports Michelin --

P2 2 Romain Dumas 1:14.364 108.34 Porsche RS Spyder Penske Motorsports Michelin --

P2 3 Stuart Moseley 1:15.311 106.98 Radical SR9 AER Bruichaddich Radical -- --

P2 4 Ben Devlin 1:16.267 105.63 Radical SR 9 AER van der Steur Racing Inc Kumho --

P2 5 Didier Theys 1:19.395 101.47 Lola R05/40 Judd Horag - Racing Michelin --

P2 6 Jamie Bach 1:21.015 99.44 Courage C65 Mazda B-K Motorsports Kumho --


-Bern

 

some racing series park cars that are outside of 110% of the first place runners place... they should be thankful ALMS doesn't have that rule, they'd be cutting it close -yikes-

 

well there is some improvement there, they qualify in front of the 2 corvettes GT1

Bern, you are going to make us wait till tomorow?

 

And only .03 behind the Aston-Martin pole-sitter in GT1...

-Bern

 

hope they have a trouble free race, it all comes to that, if they have a trouble free race they will be in good shape