在即将到来的 GTP 锦标赛赛季中，更多等于更少

之间的发展成果 保时捷和 Penske 赛车运动 在 2022 年洛杉矶车展媒体日（AutoMobility LA 2022）上展出。这将是 2023 年加入 IMSA 系列 LMDh 级的第四家制造商。该联盟是 Penske Motorsport 第二次参加最高级别的原型车比赛，第一次是获得冠军的 Acura – ARX–05. 图片来源：Edmund Jenks (2022)

在即将到来的 GTP 锦标赛赛季中，更多等于更少

去年，NTT INDYCAR SERIES 车手威尔-鲍尔（Will Power）向世人展示了 "少等于多 "的策略如何赢得赛季系列赛冠军（这是他职业生涯第二次夺冠）。然而，WeatherTech GTP 组别冠军赛已经确定了 "多等于少 "的战略，即在大型专业赛车系列赛中采用混合动力技术（多）来减少碳排放（少）。

In a first of the new year ZOOM Call put on by IMSA, with the participants from teams representing the four major automotive  manufacturers who will be competing in the 2023 GTP class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Series – Cadillac,  Acura, BMW, and Porsche – most all of the technical team leaders expressed a few common themes.

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP class ZOOM Call participants – ZOOM 调用图像中从左到右的顺序:

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP 级车队 ZOOM 征集令 第 1 部分

 

IMSA 101 – DPi cars are being replaced by LMDh cars for 2023 >>> an LMDh (Le Mans Daytona h) is a type of sports prototype race
car that will compete alongside Le Mans Hypercar entries in the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class of the IMSA SportsCar  Championship from 2023 – it also competes in the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The LMDh ruleset was created jointly by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO). The cars will serve as the successor to the Daytona Prototype International class, utilizing regulations that were planned to become  the next-generation Daytona Prototype International ruleset, converged with the Le Mans Hypercar ruleset, showing off the latest technology in mating traditional internal combustion engines (ICE) with electrification (Hybrid Technology) – tap for more.
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除了必须将混合动力装置与内燃机动力装置（内燃机）整合在一起之外，我们还必须考虑这将对车队产生哪些额外的影响，因为车队需要在车间环境、旅行和赛道设置等方面做好准备，以便进行测试和比赛。

Action Express Racing’s Whelen Engineering sponsored GTP Cadillac. Image Credit: Mike Levitt (2022)

凯迪拉克行动快车车队的加里-尼尔森（Gary Nelson）敏锐地指出，在以前的 DPi 规则配置中，车队只需用一辆运输车装载赛车、零部件、工具箱和其他辅助设备。而在 LMDh 规则配置中，这需要两辆完整的运输车和一辆拖曳式五轮拖车。

In another revealing “more” to achieve “less” observation, teams discovered an increased need to have staff, tools, and toolboxes be more clearly identified along the lines of power unit and process. For example, one team implemented having the toolboxes, as well as the tools color coded as to function between EV Hybrid and ICE applications.

我们即将迎来耐力赛车的激动人心的新时代，凯迪拉克将全力以赴！凯迪拉克车队将作为唯一一家美国制造商，以其 V-LMDh 原型赛车参加 IMSA WeatherTech 赛车锦标赛和国际汽联世界耐力锦标赛的顶级赛事，包括勒芒 24 小时耐力赛。2023 年的跑车赛季将随着戴通纳咆哮赛（2023 年 1 月 20-22 日）和劳力士 24 小时耐力赛（2023 年 1 月 28-29 日）拉开帷幕。WEC 赛历上的第一项赛事是 3 月 17 日的赛百灵 1000 英里赛。我鼓励任何希望亲临现场观看 2023 年 IMSA 或 WEC 赛事的人现在就购买门票并安排行程！ #BeIconic @cadillac @CadillacRacing #IMSA @imsa_racing #ctmp @fiawec_official #fiawec @fiawec #richardprincephotography @richardprincephoto

Jonathan Diuguid (pronounced Do-gid), Porsche Penske Motorsport ended Part 1 with the one element to this racing equation that, in the beginning of any season is on the more side, tire compound choices that will deliver the fastest times with longer runs – less pit stops with less time involved with the completion of each lap.

Motorsports Journal/EVHNews was able to ask questions from Brandon Fry of RLL about how the new RLL HQ helps the BMW GTP  Class effort & Jonathan Diuguid about working with a manufacturer to introduce a racing effort to this level of championship racing series – first Acura, and now Porsche – these questions begin this next Part 2 video.

Major concerns that are common with all teams and manufacturers as it relates to the level of confidence in the unknowns. Unknowns all track back to reliability during race day activities. As always, when something is new, one has no real idea if all of the bits, pieces, and tasked function parts will hold up to endurance race stresses and conditions. This is why we all push the limits of technology and application, this is why we race … isn’t it?

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