Le Mans News

It'd be interesting to see if they could get the battery life long enough for some ALMS races.

Its for a future FIA Electric Vehicles Championship.

Something I would love to see.

I think electric powered vehicles and internal combustion powered vehicles should co-exist.. hopefully in a peaceful way

If it has four wheels and a motive power unit (and they keep score?) then its what i'm watching.

I wonder why no one has come up with an electric race car that has a hot swappable battery pack. It seems like that would work pretty well in an endurance race. An EV doesn't have that many moving parts that could break, so it'd probably have pretty good reliability.

Thats pretty much the idea behind the Oreca run proposal for next years Le Mans 56th Entry. Competing with the Delta Wing.

The other proposal is a hydrogen powered electric vehicle.

I wonder if we can be the first virtual entry for the Le Mans 24h!

I wonder if you could rig up a car to all of our xbox's and we could control the car over XBL?

Of course, someone lagging out would probably cause some dangerous accidents!

We could always set it up like a radio-controlled car. We'd just need a really huge aerial on the car to control it from the pit lane!

well it worked on the gadget show! albeit with a bit of a smaller track! and a slower car!

you'd need HD cameras mounted right where the drivers seat is, and be controlled to move your movements so you can look in the mirrors, flash your lights, etc. etc.

Jaguar returning to Le Mans with a prototype

2014 is looking to be an exciting year for sports car racing!

Stonewall458 wrote:Jaguar returning to Le Mans with a prototype

2014 is looking to be an exciting year for sports car racing!

Whaaaaaaaa. Silk cut comeback?

Stonewall458 wrote:Jaguar returning to Le Mans with a prototype

2014 is looking to be an exciting year for sports car racing!

let's hope this is better than the GT program

Well, it can't be any worse than their GT program, so...

narboza22 wrote:Well, it can't be any worse than their GT program, so...

well, now you've gone and jinxed it...

though it seems like they have time on their side, this is still a hell of a commitment. let's hope they come up with something that works and hire the right people to support it and run it.

In other news, Lotus announce Lotus Sport USA, a 'factory endorsed' team that will focus on the GT2 and LMP2 classes of IMSA racing.

Welcome to the re-birth of the Golden Era of sports car racing gents

Is there even going to be enough room on the grid for all of these guys lol? Le Mans only has 56 pit garages right?

Thats what invitations are for.

LMP1 will be given priority, so there will be some GT cars pushed off the bench. In the eighties and early nineties, Le Mans was contested by prototypes only. The GT's were brought back in to make the grid bigger in response to the collapse of the WSC, and therefore the collapse of Prototype racing.

It may get to a stage where teams are 'restricted' to two cars

AudiSport Louis wrote:Welcome to the re-birth of the Golden Era of sports car racing gents

+1 Louis

Sebring 2014 here I come

narboza22 wrote:Is there even going to be enough room on the grid for all of these guys lol? Le Mans only has 56 pit garages right?

I think the top teams may have to cut back to 2 cars per team so that the new teams can race, or they'll give less places to the privateer P1 teams and encourage them to race in LMP2 maybe.

or they can just do what they do for the nurburgring and cram 4 cars per garage.

Thing that gets me is this is all for 2014 and plans can change. In that time the xbox 720 and Forza 5 will be out!

Just to clarify, by 2014, we could have at least semi-factory efforts from:

Aston Martin
Audi
BMW
Chevrolet
Ferrari?
Honda?
Jaguar
Lotus
Nissan
Peugeot
Porsche
Toyota

Don't forget Mazda was talking to the ACO about some sort of diesel entry at some point at this years Le Mans.