The new LMDh cars from Acura, BMW, Cadillac and Porsche have hit the ground running in testing at Daytona - but how do they look out on track? 📝 Motorsport_Ed had his ear to the ground ⬇️
The Grand Touring Prototype division will form the top class of the IMSA SportsCar series, which kicks off with the series' marquee event, the Daytona 24 Hours at the end of January. Cadillac and Porsche will also run these cars in the World Endurance Championship, as they chase the biggest sportscar race of all – the Le Mans 24 Hours in its centenary year.
#10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 GTP: Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Brendon Hartley, Louis DeletrazLet’s take them one by one: The Acura ARX-06’s standout feature is the wild noise it makes under braking, with an anti-lag system on its 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6 powerplant sounding like a mid-banking helicopter. Neither of the other two turbo-powered cars does this.
And it looks distinctive too, with its angular lines a stark contrast to its more swoopy rivals – again reflecting the sharp-crease design language of Caddy's street cars – but it’s worth pointing out at this point that the Cadillac shares its base chassis with the BMW, built by Dallara. Watching from trackside, the overall performance level is more ‘DPi-plus’ rather than an LMP1 of old. While I saw a Porsche 963 easily outdrag an LMP2 from the exit of a hairpin it was nothing like the insane rocket-like, four-wheel-drive launch of a Porsche 919 or Toyota TS040 from the slow stuff.
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