Preview: Le Mans 2015
Nissan make their debut, but catching Audi, Porsche and Toyota seems near impossible
I’m getting a little bit of a headache. And while the bodily aches and pains that a writer suffers are usually irrelevant to the contents of a magazine, or website for that matter, that isn’t so in this particular case. You see, the cause of this headache happens to be the rules of the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans. I’m trying to decipher how much fuel each of the Audis is allowed, in relation to the energy output of their electric motor. It is tricky stuff, and involves many calculations that require one to have more digits than most humans have.
After going through the ACO (Automobile Club de l’Ouest)’s technical regulations for LMP1 cars, and then coming to the conclusion that such complex mathematics is quite beyond me, I resort to Google. Several search pages later I find what I am looking for. For the amount of electrical power that each Audi R18 ...Continue Reading...
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