Another interesting fact is the topspeed in Le Mans. In the past the most significant parameter, it changed a bit over the ears. Remember the question for the „Langheck“ or „Kurzheck“ Porsche 962 when the chicanes were build.<\/p>\n
But Topspeed is still important and a look into the oficial numbers shows something quite intersting. First of all, Audi did the fastest topspeed of all. Maybe because of a good slipstream, but everyone has expected that Porsche would take the trophy or at least Toyota. But during the weekend there were rumours that Porsche had an unexpected aero-bouncing on the front and reduced laptimes and topspeed.<\/p>\n
Toyota found themself in discussions about a strange behaving rear wing – see Mike Fullers excellent analysis<\/a> – which could also be a reason for the slower speed. More likely to me is, that the Toyota driver simply lifted the food earlier to charge the supercaps.<\/p>\n
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| 91,6%<\/td>\n | 90,4%<\/td>\n | 88,0%<\/td>\n | 89,3%<\/td>\n | 91,4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another interesting fact is the topspeed in Le Mans. In the past the most significant parameter, it changed a bit over the ears. Remember the question for the „Langheck“ or „Kurzheck“ Porsche 962 when the chicanes were build. But Topspeed is still important and a look into the oficial numbers shows something quite intersting. First … Le Mans 2014: LMP1: Topspeed spread<\/span> weiterlesen |
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<\/a> Using hybrid technologydoes mean a different way of thinking and hybrid strategy is the key to a fast and efficient lap. The graph shows slower\u00a0 Toyotas at the speed trap and Audi and Porsche close by at higher speeds. The reason why I used the percent instead of absolute numbers is the different number of laps the teams did. Unfortunatly I had to remove Audi #3 and Porsche\u00a0 #20 because of faulty or too little amount of datas. Audi did the fastest topspeed reaching 339,1 km\/h, while the other competitors were 5-8 km\/h slower. But if you take the average of all topspeeds of a car relatively to the fastest topseed you can see a bigger difference for the Toyotas than for the Audis or Porsches. This underlines that the Toyotas could have gone faster.<\/p>\n