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Green Cars of the 2012 Le Mans

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The “green” race cars participating in this year’s Le Mans got together for a good old fashioned photo-op. Moving from left to right we start with the Nissan Deltawing. It’s half the weight and aerodynamic drag of a normal race car so it only needs half the power and fuel. The blue and white car is the Toyota TS030 which ended up not competing in Le Mans due to a heavy crash in testing. It’s powered by a gasoline V8 on the rear axle and electric motors on the front. The silver and red car behind the Toyota is the Audi E-tron Quattro. It’s rear axle is powered by a diesel V8 with electric motors powering the front axle. The interesting aspect of the Audi is that it uses the electromagnetic flywheel energy storage system that’s been campaigned on the Porsche 911 GT3 RS Hybrid. The black and orange car on the end is the hydrogen powered GreenGT H2.


Source: TechVehi

Circuit of the Americas Looks Amazing

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Circuit of the Americas via Sport Rider

The actual Circuit of the Americas in Austin Texas is still under construction, but the virtual version is already playing host to Formula 1 in Codemasters F1 2012 video game. Inside Sim Racing Games posted this exclusive video of Chief Game Designer, Stephen Hood, doing three laps around the track as Lewis Hamilton. The track looks pretty complex and very exciting. Looking forward to the real race in November.


Source: Inside Sim Racing on YouTube

Drifting the RX-8

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The guys at Best Motoring did an entire feature on the RX-8 a little bit after it came out. This excerpt is them doing a drift evaluation on the chassis ending with a test drive of an RX-8 that competes in the D1 Drift Championship. At the end of the video, they discuss the possibility of a turbocharged RX-7 making a return. That would have been the 2 door version of the RX-8 with a factory turbocharged engine. Unfortunately engine problems and weak sales of the RX-8 ended that idea. It was rumored that Mazda was going to try and apply its new high compression Sky Active philosophies to a new, larger displacement engine, but I think they gave up on that as well. As it sits now, it looks like the rotary engine won’t be able to overcome its reliability and fuel efficiency shortcomings to make a return to the market. At least Mazda is still making sporty cars and continues a massive grassroots motorsports support program.


Source: GT Channel

2011 World Time Attack Challenge

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Here’s a well edited video from last year’s World Time Attack in Australia. Teams and cars from Australia, Japan and America showed up to see who can set the fastest lap time. Top honors eventually went to the Cyber/Voltex Evo piloted by Tarzan Yamada.


Source: YouTube user roxS6pro