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mwahahahahahgo derv...
Dec 16, 2005
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Scary, pity it doesn't show the mpg figures, heh!
-- The DervMan
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Damn you...
A lot better than the equivalent petrol version. Mountune are also building one in a Lola chassis based on a VW V10, they expect to pit every 17 laps instead of every 10 or 11 the petrol version would have to.
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There was one running at this years using a V10 taken directly from the 4x4 but it broke both the racing gearboxes.
That's a bigger difference than I would have expected. If you're producing
650 bhp you need to burn fuel to that equivalent. Okay so diesel has a greater calorific (sic?) value than petrol but it also weighs more, so it may be heavier for a given volume of fuel.
I think the engine is all aluminium which would help.
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An interesting article. Maybe diesel is the way to go for endurance racing? Makes sense to me.
-- Stuart
And BMW won the Spa 24 hours touring car race with a diesel some years ago.
Really? Maybe I missed all the advertising that would go with that, but that's new to me. Mind you, it proves my point about diesel and endurance racing.
-- Stuart
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