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Their official program is the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup: http://www.audi.com/com/brand/en/exp..._mans_cup.html
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Some paddock rumors by John Brooks:
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so either there were several stints where they could've done more than a full extra lap before pitting, but for some reason decided to pit earlier than mandated by the fuel tank, or the figure provided by Audi is indeed bogus, but not as much bogus as your figures suggest. |
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Yes, they had some reserve in the tank, but the 43.43 liter/100 km is clearly wrong.
43.43 liter/100 km * 5410.713 km = 2350 liter for the complete race 2350 liter / 33 tank stops = 71.2 liter fuel every pitstop That would mean that they left 10 liter in the tank, which is good for almost 2 laps. |
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Anyone believe that Audi may run 1 or 2 cars at Hungaroring to get their second car classifed for the LMIC and to test for the LMIC? Also, anyone believe that Audi may've skipped Algarve for PR reasons-after all, Audi own an engine factrory that also builds Audi TTs in Gyor.
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so the Audi drivers got flustered under there own pressure not good team work one can assume
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9 Jul 2010, 23:41 (Ref:2724241) | #711 | ||
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Not to mention that the 8, especially with Lotterer behind the wheel, was the fastest Audi(though not by much, but perhaps enough that if it weren't for the damaged noses that car had, the story may've ended differently).
Since Audi had a more balance line up and rumors of shuffling drivers around(namely that Dindo Capello may retire or semi-retire at the end of the ILMC season this year), could Audi throw enough money or incentives for Andre and/or Ben to ditch Super GT and go fulltime sportscar racing? |
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I was bored last night when I remembered that the Peugeot 908's bore and stroke measurements were 84x82mm. I then decided to try and figure our what the bore and stroke would approx. be for a 5.5 V10 diesel.
What I came up with is that if the Audi R15's V10 is an oversquare design like the Peugeot engine, the bore and stroke could be somewhere along the lines of 90x88.5mm. Basically, the Bore is between roughly 88.5 and 90mm and the stroke is between 88.5 and 90mm. Remember, the area/capacity of a cylinder is Pi times radius of the bore squared times the stroke, and to get the capacity, you multiply the cylinder capacity by the number of cylinders. The area/capacity of that cylinder (90x88.5) times 10= roughly 335 cubic inches, which when converted into metric= 5.5 liters. Clearly, the diesels are probably oversquare to get them to rev more, but the measurements aren't that far from being perfectly square. So expect for the Audi V10 to possibly be oversqure, but like the Peugot V12, don't expect it to be by much. Or could it be undersqure, considering how short the engine is, though that doesn't matter as it s purpose built engine and could still be square or oversquare--All Audi racing engines are derived from revised designs for the R8's 3.6 TFSI V8, and that engine was heavy and overbuilt for what it was, but then again, it never broke in race conditions. Maybe Audi used the FSI V8 as a test for the V12 and V10 diesels, considering that direct injection combined with turbocharging equals diesel like compression ratios. |
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Audi driver line-ups for the ILMC revealed:
http://www.lemans.org/fr/actualites/...ages_1602.html Silverstone: #7 - Tom Kristensen/Allan McNish #8 - Dindo Capello/Timo Bernhard PLM: #7 - Dindo Capello/Tom Kristensen/Allan McNish #9 - Marcel Fassler/Andre Lotterer/Benoit Treluyer Zhuhai: #7 - Tom Kristensen/Allan McNish #8 - Dindo Capello/Romain Dumas Main absentee from the Le Mans line-up (Rocky) is because of DTM commitments. |
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Sounds like the guys doing Muscle Milk RS Spyder work may be helping out with PLM, considering their absence in the R15.
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Full press release in English: http://www.audi.com/com/brand/en/exp...i_embarks.html
Strange to see Dumas in Zhuhai. I expected him to drive the hybrid Porsche in that race. |
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Pickett himself is hoping to be fit enough to drive at PLM (no offense intended to Greg but I kind of hope this is not the case) so it is conceivable that there will be only one seat available in the #6 - maybe 0 if Memo Gidley returns too?
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I don't know about Pickett--Doctors say his back injury was misdiagnosed and is an old injury.
Back to Audi, I can't say I'm entirely surprised that Allan and TK are a team--Audi have said that they'd rather have them on a team rather than race each other if possible. Surprised that Rocky isn't really involved, since he had a full season sportscar ride for Audi, but Rocky is high up in the DTM standings this year, and Audi probably doesn't want to derail that. But it's good to see Audi giving all their LM drivers aside from Rocky at least one shot at the R15 this year. Audi also says that they've developed a sprint/high downforce spec version of the R15 in that PR. Did they change the bodywork or just tack on a lot of gurneys and diveplanes? |
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The wording of the press release does not suggest a completely new bodywork: "the aerodynamics package has been trimmed for higher downforce". |
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There are two possible reasons for splitting up McNish and Capello. One is that Audi believes Nishy and TK will be the most potent lineup on overall pace; that is a reasonable supposition. The other is that Audi believes there is something about Capello - in or out of the car - that makes him ideal to work with relative Audi newbies Bernhard and Dumas. Audi's smart enough to know the strengths and weaknesses of their long-standing drivers as personalities and work with those, as both Allan McNish and Dr. Wolfgang Ulrich have previously intimated.
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I didn't say that Audi changed the whole bodywork of the car, but Spa probably told them that they need a high downforce package to compete head to head with Peugeot in the ILMC races, especially Silverstone and Road Atlanta, let alone if they expect to be as fast as or faster than Peugeot. The decision to run LM-spec areo at Spa probably cost Audi a race win or at least a second there.
Also, I find it interesting that Audi intends to run LM 2011 with the same driver lineup in all three cars as this year. Sort of puts to rest Pruett's rumor of Audi attempting to shuffle the driver lineup for 2011, just like how he said that the R15 has understeer problems--from what I've seen (and Speed touched on this at Le Mans) is that the R15 has oversteer problems in slow corners that maybe the high downforce spec might help, certianly in faster corners. Also, Audi's drivers have always said that compared to the R10, the R15 is more neutral/oversteery, especially in slower corners like the R8 was. |
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What surprises me is that Tom K and Capello isn't driving together!, those two are best friends, and it was with Capello Tom K won his most hard earned victories at Le Mans.
But then again, Capello is a smooth rythm driver, which is an ideal partner for any new comers, as the car will be more stable. All i hope is just that Tom K and McNish have become friends enough to drive the car without trashing each other, as Capello no longer can be the buffer between. |
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