mehshoe

It makes plenty of downforce. Prototypes these days make a great chunk of downforce from the underbody. I watched it go through turn 1 (130mph+ at turn in) at Atlanta, the car was very fast. Now I am bummed I did not break out the radar detector to compare speeds.

The accident was just a racing incident IMO. The Delta was taking the normal line a prototype would take to get around a slower GT car. The GT oversteered at the exit of the right hander (you can watch his front tires as he tries to save it) and collected the Delta. What I found to be crappy was the GT driver flipping off the Delta driver after the collision. He also never went over to talk to Gunnar afterwards (Once of those unwritten rules in racing).

http://www.joe.ie/uploads/story/29499/porsche.jpg

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

Monk....Smash!!!!