How NASCAR was FASTER than Ferrari at Le Mans
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2023-06-17に共有
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Look at this - yep that’s a NASCAR stock car competing with GTs and Prototypes at Le Mans. And they were QUICKER than Ferrari, Aston Martin and Porsche!
It’s a Next-Gen Camaro that has been adapted to work at Le Mans. But if you missed it, you might be a bit confused about how this came about.
NASCAR has changed a lot recently, with newer, more aerodynamic cars.
Centre-lock wheels rather than the zzz,zzz,zzz,zzz,zzz lug nuts they used to run.
They’ve even moved to more F1-looking tyres rather than the old-style, tall-sidewall ones. Also adding a rear diffuser, typical on other race cars but very new for stock cars.
BUT, one of the bigger changes is that they are running more road courses than they used to, racing at tracks like Circuit of the Americas, Watkins Glen, and a favourite of mine - the Charlotte Roval.
So stock cars aren’t just for turning left, and they have shown that in recent seasons. But, not in the same way GT cars or prototypes can handle Le Mans for 24 hours though, right?
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コメント (21)
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NASCAR needs to do an entire series of road courses with this spec of car. This appetizer is too tempting to not go to a full course.
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I love that Le Mans was so welcoming of this team and allowed them to truly gather as much data and have as much fun as possible. This is what the racing community is all about. We're all in this together!
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"if you're not smiling, what's the point of doing it?" has got to be one of the quotes of all time
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Not a Chevy fan but can’t deny this was simply amazing. NASCAR needs to take this idea to a full series. That would bring a brand type of fan.
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the fact they only lost 10 places during the gear box failure and the end of the race is what I find to be very impressive
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Americans are happy about their team (and it makes sense of course), but I want to underline how amazing it is for Le Mans to allow these projects to join the race. It's in the spirit of the race, of course, but it's still amazing considering that now it's a well enstablished format. You don't see stuff like this anywhere else. Pikes Peak and other competitions are only about unregulated projects, this is a mixup between regulated and well enstablished categories and unregulated, and it's great. It's not granted at all, that after all this time and history, we still see things like this. What I mean is that competitions over time tend to become more and more scientific and predictable, here you can see anything, instead, and I hope it will stay like this forever
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I’d love to see more in the experimental category It’s why I like to watch pikes peak hill climbs so much, so many unique vehicles
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i am french and it was an honor of seeing a NASCAR at Le Mans, i hope to see much more of them on this racetrack in the futur.
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Honestly, the most exciting development in NASCAR's recent history. It just makes sense. 'Stock cars' are endurance monsters; why not race them in the premiere endurance race? Glad to see it come to fruition.
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I’m a road course guy and hence, not a huge NASCAR fan BUT, stories like this… they simply make my soul smile. Hence, year after year, hope for more road courses in NASCAR persists. Wicked mad props to the Hendrick Motorsports team for making my soul smile and the same to the Le Mans officials for accommodating the Hendrick efforts AND letting them see it ALL the way to the end. 🏁 🥰 🏁
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"If you're not smiling, what's the point of doing it" BARS 😤
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I'm old school NASCAR and haven't watched it much since the introduction of the COT. I've never watched it since they introduced stages or segments. It's just become a castrated sport equivalent of The Apprentice. It's heartening to know that their are still folks that want to test the limits.
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Just on a side note: Jenson Button looks and sounds genuinely relaxed and happy in these interview clips. Glad to see he''s enjoying life post F1.
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Kudos to Le Mans for letting this happen. That’s awesome
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I believe part of the reason why they didn't go with a winged spoiler was the fact that many of these engineers remembered the rolling bricks known as the Car of Tomorrow (Gen 5). The first couple of years with those wretched things had wings that actually proved to only make the cars incredibly unstable rather than adding pointless downforce. Now that could have just been the design of the wing, but I feel the designers made the right decision going with a traditional (albeit incredibly large) stock car style spoiler.
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The slim, taped on temperature sensor on the inside of the tire is next level. I love stuff like that.
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I have a buddy who works for Hendrick Motor Sports who was on the Le Mans project. He said it was the most fun that the designers have had building a car in years, and you can really tell in the way Jenson talked about the experience.
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Gotta give props to the wec/Le mans management for being flexible with where they put them and allowing them to continue because they're the testbed team. I'd love to see more crazy things in Le mans. Delta wing 2 maybe?
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I'm a Brit and I love NASCAR, I've been to the US many times but 2 of those occasions were specifically to go to the Daytona 500. What an amazing event that is, no Formula 1 race comes close to the insane passion of NASCAR. Making an "European race spec" NASCAR is a motoring wet dream for me! 😍
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Love seeing American and European motorsports collab like this.
