Audi's nightmare

The Peugeot 908 V12 HDi DPFS is going to make it audi very difficult.
Personally i am a audi fan but i hope audi get's some real competition from peugeot to make the le mans races a little more exciting. And to be honest the peugeot looks sweet, but how do the drivers get in the car?
700bhp peugeot vs audi's 650bhp










Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2006 05:56PM by kaid.

sweet car, nice to compare the last photo and your sig:P i think peugeot will kick audis ass with this beautiful looking car

This is how an F1 would look like with closed wheels, a window and lights...

I like it

Sure looks sweet , but Good looks have never won a race...Good Cars do though. And Audi clearly has the advantage as they have the experience of the last years. The experience of having a Diesel engine this year...and winning Le Mans with it.
I´d it´s a first attempt for Peugeot and it won´t be a shame to loose against Audi, but I hope that they both have sharp weapons in 2008

that peugeot looks absaloutly stunning! I may start having some kind of interest in endurance racing if they can provide Audi with some decent competition.

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fantastic looking machine I wish that wud be my own design..

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

Why were the closed tops removed in the first place? Surely they would be more efficent?

The Peugeot is only a styling concept so far, although I guess the final vehicle will not be far off that. It follows the lines of the Bentley EXP speed 8 very closely though don't you think? Which is no bad thing. Incidently Martin Brundle once told me that was the most beautiful car he's ever driven and he's driven a few!
To answer Sil3nt-War, closed tops (which were LMP GT) had to run narrower tyres and have a more clostrophobic cockpit. Remember Brabham in the Aston at Le Mans last year? The open (used to be LMP 900, a la Audi R8) cars ran wider tyres but had smaller restrictors, hence were more more manuverable but gave out a bit on the top end. It was a trade off that most teams were happy to live with.
Don't quote me on this, but for 2008 or something the ACO is specifying closed prototypes. There was something in Autosport a few months ago about it with a feature on a new Lola. I'll have a word with our head of motorsport and get back to you on that though.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/03/2006 02:10PM by Damas.

should be a good few years in endurance racing!

hopefully there are even more manufacturers joining soon or re-joining. bmw, porsche, toyota?

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Out of topic question:
Damas, do you work to any racing organization or team?? Sorry, I've been some time out this forum and don't remeber you...

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I agree with SchueyFan, it would be great to see more manufacturers in GT's again!

So what they have an extra 100hp? I sincerely doubt they'll be able to pull 1100lb/ft torque out of a petrol engine no matter how hard they try. Audi's main winning trick is the humongous power it churns out across the revs.

Yeah, they might have some competition, but I've no doubt that the Audi boys will lap it up and just go even faster

zeppelin101 Wrote:
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> So what they have an extra 100hp? I sincerely
> doubt they'll be able to pull 1100lb/ft torque out
> of a petrol engine no matter how hard they try.
> Audi's main winning trick is the humongous power
> it churns out across the revs.
>
> Yeah, they might have some competition, but I've
> no doubt that the Audi boys will lap it up and
> just go even faster

Surely the HDi written on the side of these concept shots indicate it's a diesel?


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my god what a nice looking car! LeMans races will be full of beauty in next few years, because there are strong romours that alfa will join the series with it's gorgeous 8c (here's its road version [www.italiaspeed.com] )

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keiran Wrote:
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> zeppelin101 Wrote:
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> > So what they have an extra 100hp? I sincerely
> > doubt they'll be able to pull 1100lb/ft torque
> out
> > of a petrol engine no matter how hard they try.
> > Audi's main winning trick is the humongous
> power
> > it churns out across the revs.
> >
> > Yeah, they might have some competition, but
> I've
> > no doubt that the Audi boys will lap it up and
> > just go even faster
>
> Surely the HDi written on the side of these
> concept shots indicate it's a diesel?

Yeah alright, my eyesite is on the blink, whats your point? :P

Lol, so were going to have two Bentlys on the grid :P

The R10 massivley resembles the cooling of the Bently !

So im guessing this is the car going to be used testing cooling and mechanicals...

they also have the prototype c experience so its not asif they wont know what they're doing :D

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

slightly off-topic, but not too much of a tangent (and hopefully not previously posted), love these ads:

lol, they're good!

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i'm afraid i can't see past the fact it's a peugeot LOL :S:S:S:S

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