Nissan powering radical new racing car
Nissan was unveiled Tuesday as a founding partner of the DeltaWing racing car project, which will compete in June's 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race while using half the fuel of its peers. Nissan is providing a four-cylinder turbo engine to the DeltaWing and hopes the technology being introduced by the car will make it into its street vehicles in the near future.
The engine, badged DIG-T (Direct Injection Gasoline – Turbocharged), is expected to produce around 300hp, sufficient to give Nissan DeltaWing lap times between LMP1 and LMP2 machines at Le Mans, despite having only half the power of those conventional prototypes. It features the same technology found in Nissan road cars, such as the range-topping Nissan Juke DIG-T.
Some videos related to the DeltaWing are here.
Finally! Finally I see a ray
Finally! Finally I see a ray hope flashing once again in favor of my favorite company nissan. Soon the racing world will see nissans trump card, feeding their competition spoonfulls of dust. Though I wish this were a street legal car. Might as well look/browse nissan parts here and hope to find something I can compare it to.
nice car but not friendly on
nice car but not friendly on the streets! It only works on race tracks
This is an innoviative
This is an innoviative design, we will see how it works out... The racing world will see soon!