Nieuw LMP 900 voor LeMans

[Mark]

John Nielsen's RN Motorsport team has made the surprise announcement today that they will team up with YGK Japan, through its racing division YR Magic to run a brand new British built SR1 sports-prototype in 2002.


In conjunction with their new UK partner, Guildford-based International Racing Management,RN and YGK are entering the highest level of Sportscar Racing in 2002 together by commiting to a full season of the FIA Sportscar Champiosnhip.


IRM have masterminded both an SR1 and GTS racecar design and build programme in the UK, the later based on the YGK Supersport road car.


YGK/IRM’s 2002 entry into the sport is the first year of a minimum three-year racing and development works programme. The works race team will be managed by 1990 Le Mans winner John Nielsen who said of the project."We are very much looking forward to this long term initiaitive. The plan is for one car to contest the whole FIA Sportscar season and then for the other car to join after Le Mans."


YR Magic has been in the Sportscar arena for several years both domestically in Japan and in the USA, and the company believes that the foundations are now laid to make an all-out effort against the more established runners as a constructor in its own right.


Through their racing activities, YGK / IRM are aiming to raise their profile as a forward-thinking, specialist, high-technology engineering company, with a view to increasing global awareness of its road-going high-performance supercar, from which the GTS racing car has been evolved. Already 57 orders have been placed for the road cars, now at a highly advanced stage of development, showing customer commitment to the YGK/IRM philosophy.


The power unit is a 4-litre V8, both in turbocharged form for the LMP 900 and normally aspirated for the GTS and road car. Designated the YR40, this engine is a culmination of several years design and development at the YGK headquarters in Japan under the direction of professor Hayashi Yoshimasa.


IRM chose the services of Piper International Design Group, London, to design the LMP 900 car and Zeus Motorsport, Northamptonshire, to design the GTS race car. Both companies employ dedicated design teams with years of experience. John Piper and his Chief Designer Nick Carpenter are quietly confident that they have a design which will more than match up to the other giant contenders in the LMP class, whilst Peter Sneller (flushed with his success at winning the National Sportscar Championship with his own Zeus Challenger) and his Chief Designer Martin Ogilvie (Team Lotus Chief designer) have set up a specialist engineering and design unit specifically for the development of the YGK GTS car.

[Werner333]

Hmm lijkt op een kruising tussen de Dallara/Chrysler en de Audi.
Originaliteit 0/10.
Maar Nielsen zal er wel bloedsnel mee gaan zekers?

[Sennake]

Originally posted by Werner333
Hmm lijkt op een kruising tussen de Dallara/Chrysler en de Audi.
Originaliteit 0/10.
Maar Nielsen zal er wel bloedsnel mee gaan zekers?

Ik vind dat er ook nog een stukske "Panoz" tussen zit...