Gt3R First Win

[N1GTR]

Seeing as we're all into fast cars, here's some pics of the GT3R on its first win;

Refuel less, drive longer: That’s the recipe for success of the further developed 911 GT3 R Hybrid: Richard Lietz, Marco Holzer and Patrick Long clinched the first victory for the hybrid racer from Weissach.

http://www.porsche.com/microsite/intelligent-performance/international.aspx

[handbrake]

holy hell!

love the air in the first pic.

damn those tyres are working hard on the rim on the second last!

[Marlin]

Mint. A hybrid I could actually like

[Owgasm]

Wow, air pic and the tyres

[Silvia GTR]

Checked the site out too. omfg Do want

[Whiplash]

Pitty Craig Lowdnes crashed in Qualifying after getting the Audi up to 10th

[NISSAN GTR]

This is CUMMAGE

[FineLine]

The front splitter is copping a helluva workout in pic 8.

[Beer Baron]

nice. love the 'ring. every pic I see makes me wish I was back there driving it right now.... soon.

wonder what the hybrid sounds like? I'm guessing same as every other GT3 (ie good)?

[PHaT MR30]

nice. love the 'ring. every pic I see makes me wish I was back there driving it right now.... soon.

wonder what the hybrid sounds like? I'm guessing same as every other GT3 (ie good)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2elYiycJo

from about the 1:00 mark some incar sounds much like a cup car, well it is basically a cup car with two electric motors in the front hubs and a big kinetic flywheel in the passenger side.

Edited June 1, 2011 by PHaT MR30

[wrxkilla]

damn the ring is awesome !

[rehab2010]

Mint. A hybrid I could actually like

I know it says hybrid on the hips, but unless Porsche has changed the cooling design for the battery packs then the pics are simply of another GT3R, non hybrid one - GT3R-Hybrid has the cooling slits, in attached pic marked in red.

[Peter89]

It might refuel less but the rules forced a certain refueling time. This greatly benefits cars that use less fuel. If they had F1 styled pit-stop refueling, I would exact an entirely different race.

2mins 20seconds is a huge amount of time to refuel.

"To equalize all of the different cars and fuel capacities, everyone took about 2 minutes 20 seconds to fill the car up with fuel. This gave us plenty of time to get the tire changes done and do any necessary cleaning or work on the car before we could go back on track."

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2011/07/18/drivers-blog-gt-gt-sandstrom-amp-milner-at-the-n-220-rburgring-24hr-pt-ii.aspx

Edited July 20, 2011 by Peter89

[Nee-san]

It might refuel less but the rules forced a certain refueling time. This greatly benefits cars that use less fuel. If they had F1 styled pit-stop refueling, I would exact an entirely different race.

2mins 20seconds is a huge amount of time to refuel.

http://speedhunters....24hr-pt-ii.aspx

Lol, cool car, new it was too good to be true, just like how the major endurance races can't be one in a petrol car, or how front wheel drives in most categories are given performance breaks.

[N1GTR]

Lol, cool car, new it was too good to be true, just like how the major endurance races can't be one in a petrol car, or how front wheel drives in most categories are given performance breaks.

What exactly do you mean?

Overall they use less fuel, meaning less fuel stops - the actual stops were regulated to 2mins 20seconds or so. So if they do even 2 extra laps between refuelling than the other teams can manage thats a big advantage given they will be stopped for the same time as the others, they just stop less times.

[Peter89]

But with forced pit times we can never know how much it really helped. Long pit times only hurt petrol based vehicles, it is clear they are trying to encourage other types of vehicles.

It affects the amount of fuel a vehicle has to carry, reducing its lap times. Completely changes pit stop strategy with tyre changes and repairs.

[N1GTR]

Fair point!

We wont know how large the winning margin could've been, surely the guys much smarter than us at Porsche would've done the calculations though

[LotusGTR]

That car overtook me on the Ring right on the entry to Carousel when I was there on a track day in 2009. Went through bottomed out the whole time. Sparks were a flyin. Needless to say it was quickly gone.

[Nee-san]

But with forced pit times we can never know how much it really helped. Long pit times only hurt petrol based vehicles, it is clear they are trying to encourage other types of vehicles.

It affects the amount of fuel a vehicle has to carry, reducing its lap times. Completely changes pit stop strategy with tyre changes and repairs.

Exactly, competition is the best way to develop a technology so if they are really keen in developing this technology as something other then a PR stunt then it would be better to enter it into a series which is a straight fight.

That quickly sorts out what is worthwhile and what isn't