a customer-friendly
car that could be aff orded by a team
3.4-litre V8 engine is run in HPD’s 2008 Porsche battle-era spec, but updated with reliability improvements. In low-downforce Le Mans aero confi guration, the effi ciency and fuel consumption of the engine proved to be quite unprecedented
hit, the edict came down from on high that we were going to cancel our works programme, so to speak, and doing a car of that approach was simply not fi nancially feasible because we didn’t have the backing. However, in the meantime, we started up customer programmes, which have been very successful in their fi rst year. And having two teams – RML and Strakka – running our ARX chassis, I wanted to have a path for them to continue to be our customers and be our teams going forward into the future. What made sense to me was if we could do an update on the car,
carry over things that were tried and proven, which is the engine and gearbox internals, the wiring and the shift systems and all of the control strategies, but upgrade to P1 wheels and tyres and to the latest and greatest aerodynamic tricks on the car, we could have a very capable car that would scare the diesels. ‘We knew that, because some
of the teams at some point will want to move from P2 to P1, if we didn’t have a P1 product to offer, they would have to leave. So this was really intended to be a customer-friendly car that could be afforded by a team, rather than a car that was entirely fi nanced by a works programme. The 01e is exactly that. It’s got the dependable backbone of what won Le Mans by such a margin last year, which helps
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