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Porsche and the 919 Hybrid title defenders in the WEC and at Le Mans
FIA World Endurance Championship WEC, LMP1
Stuttgart
. After the successful 2015 season when it took overall victory in Le Mans and won the constructors’ and drivers’ World Championship titles,
Team Principal Andreas Seidl said: “Competing with the starting numbers 1 and 2 is an honour and a challenge at the same time. We expect even stronger competition in 2016, but still want to be able to fight for race victories and try to defend our titles. In February our intensive test and training programme kicked off in Abu Dhabi.”
For
Fritz Enzinger, Vice President LMP1: “Independently from our sporting targets, our most important task is to gather know-how for
Back in November,
By offering exceptional technical freedom, the regulations for Class 1 Le Mans Prototypes (LMP1) place strong demands on engineers. The hybrid system of the 919 combines cutting-edge downsizing turbo technology with efficient fuel direct injection for the two-litre, four-cylinder combustion engine, and uses a lithium-ion battery to store electricity from two different energy recovery systems (brake energy from the front axle and exhaust energy). The 919 Hybrid produces a system with power of almost 900 hp and provided
Alexander Hitzinger, Technical Director and responsible for the 919 Hybrid: “After having built an entirely new 919 for the 2015 season, this time we keep the same chassis structure. Therefore there wasn’t an exact roll-out day for the new car, actually we change the car step by step to the 2016 specification. According to our simulation, the rule changes in terms of fuel consumption and fuel flow should cost us about four seconds per lap in Le Mans. We cannot estimate yet to what extent we can make up for that by improvements in other areas of the 919 Hybrid, or if that is even possible.”
From a historical perspective, the WEC picks up the tradition of the sports car world championship from the 1960s to the 1980s. After Formula One, the WEC is the world’s most important racing series on track. In 2016 it has nine rounds held in nine different countries. The season’s highlight is the Le Mans 24-hour race in France, where
It was the opportunity for innovative technology that encouraged
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2/5/2016
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