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Re:Last in Beauty Contests May Be First on Tracks by mehshoe on Friday November 16, 2012 @11:42AM (#4794541)
I saw it race at Atlanta recently. I was very surprised in the cars outright speed. Only a couple tenths off of the fastest P2 car! The two things I noticed about the car was how unstable it looked at turn in. The car rotates a lot compared to other prototypes. Quite scary on the high speed stuff. Also, the tin top drivers complained about not being able to see the car in their mirrors (very small frontal area). In fact a Gt car turned into him whilst being overtaken going under the bridge and the crash was scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7qaG9K2_c

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Re:Last in Beauty Contests May Be First on Tracks by nicholassmith on Friday November 16, 2012 @11:53AM (#4794599)
It's an odd situation, I can kind of understand where the Porsche driver was coming from, it's ridiculously hard to see the car in mirrors, but he came off such an asshat from the incident he caused it spoilt his point slightly.

It does look like it shouldn't corner though, yet at LeMans it seemed to power through them pretty smoothly.

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