Dan Gurney's Delta Wing 24 hrs of Le Mans car

[black2002ls]

Is this the batmobile thread?

I saw a resemblance to the batmobile as well!

[Strychnine]

I wonder what people said when they first saw the original GT40 design.

"Damn, that looks kinda like the '65 Alfa"




"Damn, that looks smilar to the '64 Ferrari 250 LM"

[SS Junk]

Looks cool but not sure how it would handle. Obviously they wouldn't have spent all that money building it if they didn't think it would work though.

The wide rear stands along with the downforce created... The front is a giant wedge.

[Gargamel]

[GT Fanatic]

Is that designed to protect the driver in a roll?

[WesB]

Indy car reject. They have to race it somewhere to make building it worthwhile.

[racrguy]

Indy car reject. They have to race it somewhere to make building it worthwhile.

This.

[scootro]

looks like a great design for the bonneville salt flats!

[Darren M]

Indy car reject. They have to race it somewhere to make building it worthwhile.

Are you implying that Le Mans is a sub-standard to Indy Car? Yes, I realize IC rejected the submission. However, it wouldn't be the first time IC made a mistake, or possibly made a bad judgement call. Radical design, absolutely. But, IMHO, IC needs a new breath of life anyway.

[90GT50]

There's a video of it doing a few laps floating around, looks to have decent speed, just not really digging it.

[racrguy]

Are you implying that Le Mans is a sub-standard to Indy Car? Yes, I realize IC rejected the submission. However, it wouldn't be the first time IC made a mistake, or possibly made a bad judgement call. Radical design, absolutely. But, IMHO, IC needs a new breath of life anyway.

I agree with the Indy series needing a shot in the arm of some sorts, but what I'm thinking he's saying is that the company must recoup the cost of developing the car after being rejected, so they're going to the lemans series with it. After all, that car was designed to run both ovals and road/street courses.

[turboford]

After watching a little of this morning Indy car race I can say the new car looks like shit. I don't like it at all. That series is going to be in trouble, Again.

[Slowhand]

I agree with the Indy series needing a shot in the arm of some sorts, but what I'm thinking he's saying is that the company must recoup the cost of developing the car after being rejected, so they're going to the lemans series with it. After all, that car was designed to run both ovals and road/street courses.

I don't see where they're going to make any money running as the only car in the exhibition class...

[Darren M]

Getting closer....

[CWO]

Audi > *