Basically a Lola B08/60 chassis, but instead of having a petrol or diesel engine it will have an all electric engine. The Lola-Drayson B12/69EV is a electric powered vehicles is aiming to break lap records for electric powered car at tracks around the world. Also, in 2013 the car will be entering into the FIA Formula E Championship for electric powered vehicles.
Lola-Drayson B12/69EV is a joint project between Lola and Drayson Racing who have perviously raced at Le Mans in 2010 with aa Lola B08/60 LMP1 car, which was powered by a 5.5 litre V10 bio-fuelled Judd engine.
Built around the current Lola LMP1chassis, the new vehicle uses a DRT (Drayson Racing Technology) electric drivetrain to generate 850 bhp and Cosworth will provide electronic control system. 0-60 mph in 3.0 seconds, 0-100 mph in 5.1 seconds and a maximum speed of nearly 200 mph. The weight of the car is 1000kg, 100kgs heaver than a current LMP1 car.
The Lola-Drayson B12/69EV was launched at Birmingham in early 2012, Lord Paul Drayson stated what he wanted to do with Lola-Drayson B12/69EV, which includes doing FIA Formula E Championship in 2013. As these two videos below states.
Also, there is another video of a five minute time-lapse of the building of the Lola-Drayson B12/69EV, enjoy.
End of post for now. New one soon. Bye.
This post will be quick recaps from WRC Round 6 in Grease, and Round 4 Rally America Championship from the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, USA.
So Round 6 (24–27 May) of the WRC from the Acropolis Rally in Grease. Sébastien Loeb won the Acropolis Rally in his Citreon DS3, 40 seconds ahead of Citreon team-mate Mikko Hirvonen, to make a Citreon one-two. While, Jari-Matti Latvala finished third in his Ford Fiesta RS.
Sébastien Loeb is leading the WRC drivers championship, while Citreon are leading the manufuters championship from Ford. Highlights bellow, enjoy.
Meanwhile, the forth round of Rally America at Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally 2012 (2nd-3rd June) in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. 2010 Champion Antoine L'Estage in his 2011 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2011 driver won the rally by 75 seconds. Ahead of current Champion David Higgins in his 2012 Subaru WRX STI. Subaru Rally Team USA. But, 2011 Champion David Higgins is still leading the Rally America drivers championship with still a big margin, with two rallies to go. Day 2 Highlights from the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally bellow, enjoy.
End of post/blog for now, that is all, Bye.
First post for the week, seventh post of the F1 season. Thoughts on yesterdays Canadian Grand Prix.
Good weekend
- Lewis Hamilton (won the race overall)
- Romain Grosjean (finished second)
- Sauber F1 Team (Sergio Pérez finished third, Kamui Kobayashi finished ninth)
Bad weekend
- Ferrari (Fernarndo Alonso finished 5th, should have won the race, but didn't pitted at the end that cost him a win, Felipe Massa finished 10th, spun in the race, could have been on the podium)
- Jenson Button (finished 16th, a race weekend too forget)
- Bruno Senna (finished 17th, not a good weekend from Bruno Senna)
- Michael Schumacher (DNF, DRS failure)
- HRT (Pedro de la Rosa DNF Brakes, Narain Karthikeyan, DNF Brakes)
Overall, another very good Canadian Grand Prix from Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Lewis Hamilton won the race overall, becoming the seventh different driver to win the first seven races, which is a record in Formula One history.
The win paid off for Lewis Hamilton on lap 49 for a second tyre stop. Whereas, Alonso and Sebastian Vettel decided to try and make it to the end on their existing Pirelli tyres, but Hamilton had the pace to hunt down and pass both of them for the win at the Canadian Grand Prix and the lead for the drivers championship too. Lewis Hamilton is now two points ahead of Fernarndo Alonso who is second in the standings, and three points ahead of Sebastian Vettel who is third in the standings. A well earned race win from Lewis Hamilton in Canada.
Anyway, that is all. Bye.
Last week, this video showed up on the internet of Sauber doing something that have been done before, cutting a Formula 1 in half from one end to the other. Basically the BMW Sauber F1 car from 2008, split in half, took two years to cut in half and a cameo from Sergio Perez too in the video on where the driver goes, where all the parts on a F1 car goes. A lot to learn to a Formula 1 or anyone who is interested in what's inside a Formula 1 car. Video below, enjoy. And a great video from Sauber too.
End of post for now. New one soon. Bye.
A quick review of last weeks MotoGP race in Catalunya. Then, this weekends Canadian Grand Prix Predictions.
A great win for Jorge Lorenzo at his home race at Circuit de Catalunya, on his works Yamaha, a great battle throughout the race between himself and Dani Pedrosa on his Honda. Pedrosa was leading the race until six laps to go, when Lorenzo overtake Pedrosa for the lead, then the race win. So, Dani Pedrosa finished second with five seconds behind race winner Lorenzo. While, Andrea Dovizioso on his Tech 3 Yamaha nine seconds behind Lorenzo, who finished third. While, Current Champion Casey Stoner on his Honda finished forth. half a second behind Dovizioso.
So this weekends Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix Predictions at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. A big surprising one Michael Schumacher for the win in his Mercedes, Mark Webber second in the Red Bull and Nico Rosberg third in the Mercedes. Don't forget Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, McLaren drivers,or two Lotus drivers either. Could be a great race this weekend.
Anyway, that is all. Bye.
A few months back I did a post on the Dome S102.5 were Pescarolo Team will run the LMP1 car for this years Le Mans 24 hour race. Now, Pescarolo will have their new LMP1 coming up for Le Mans 24 hours in three weeks time, called Pescarolo-Judd 03.
The Pescarolo-Judd 03, which is built around the monocoque and suspension of the ill-fated Aston Martin AMR-One. Also, a Judd 3.4-litre V8 engine underneath and Michelin tyres as-well on the Pescarolo-Judd 03.
The Pescarolo-Judd 03 was due to race for the first time at the Spa FIA World Endurance Championship round in May. But, financial problems for Pescarolo Team, delayed in building the car. So, the car will debut at the Le Mans 24 hours race in three weeks time.
Emmanuel Collard, Jean-Christophe Boullion and Stuart Hall will be driving Pescarolo-Judd 03at the Le Mans 24 Hours on June 16/17.
End of post for now. New one soon. Bye.
A documentary I found on a web-site recently, I saw this link onto Vimeo site. A Romanian Rally team called BCR Leasing – Colina Motors team. The 19 minute video shows the rebuilding of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X to a Group N rally car in a detailed, high-quality, from 2011 car to 2012 car and getting ready for the 2012 season ahead. Footnotes below from the Vimeo site.
PR:
“a backstage film about Romanian motorsport, a documentary featuring the rebuild of a Group N Rally car and probably a first in terms of level of detail and quality.
the project began in early November 2011, when dismantling started, and regularly documented the process until the end of December 2011 when the car was ready for tests in Gheorgheni; the ending of the film dates from March 2012 when E. Keleti’s Evo X Mishubishi received its sponsor stickers for a new season with the BCR Leasing – Colina Motors team.
basically the documentary captures up to the smallest detail pretty much all the effort the Colina Motorsports team put in to rebuild the car.
In numbers:
over 20,000 images (for the time lapse) – shot with Drift HD170 Stealth.
dozens of hours of shooting and editing;
filmed with Canon 5D2 and 60D;
technical car data is in the movie – press pause to read them
Image: Alex Serban, Cosmin Serban, Andreea Nedelea
Editing: Alex Serban, Cosmin Serban
Music: Yacht – Creative Commons”
Also, there is another video of a five minute time-lapse of rebuilding the Group N rally car Mishubishi Lancer Evo X altogether, enjoy.
That is all. Bye.
