Cars outside the 24hoursoflemans class structure are permitted to enter in Garage 56, and several interesting ideas have graced the world-famous endurance race as a result. Our resident Engineering columnist LucasdiGrassi gets imaginative:
start the Le Mans 24 Hours in the Garage 56 invitational slot
We have to follow engineering and physics principles, and that leads me towards a biofuel turbine with a high level of autonomous controls. The downside is that a turbine needs constant RPM, because it doesn’t like accelerating and decelerating. Therefore, it would need a super or hyper-capacitor to store energy from the turbine and drive the wheels. Still, with a motor on each wheel, plus a fifth generating electricity from the turbine, it would be fairly simple mechanically, have fewer moving parts compared to a piston engine and save hundred of kilos in weight that might otherwise be taken up by batteries.
For detractors pointing at the results of past turbine cars in racing, just imagine how far the technology has come since the 1960s! As with F1 cars from that era to today, there would be no comparison
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