If you’ve ever wanted to find out if your track car is faster than an LMP3 prototype, here’s your chance.
Ghais Khaleghi, a previous winner of our Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge Presented by Grassroots Motorsports, is bringing a Duqueine D08, an LMP3-class prototype race car.
Power comes from a Nissan-sourced VK56 V8 that’s good for over 450 horsepower, and the total weight–with driver included–is listed at just 2200 pounds.
What is the Ultimate Track Car Challenge? It’s our annual search for the fastest track machine on four wheels, whether it be home-brewed, professionally built or something else entirely.
All that’s required to compete is that both car and driver pass a safety inspection. If you can do that, then enter your car today.
This year’s UTCC takes place at Pitt Race, September 18-21, alongside the SCCA Time Trials Nationals.
The Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge is presented by Grassroots Motorsports and fueled by Sunoco, in association with Wilwood, Vitour Tire, CRC Industries, XS Power, AMT Motorsport, Vbox Motorsport and Red Line Oil, with trophies from CalltoGrid, BimmerWorld, Falken Tire, Miller Electric, Vorshlag and Hoosier Tire.
I would love to know the precise design purpose of the pair of rear symmetrical diffuser "cheese wedges" pictured on that car and many others of that configuration. Mainly why are they fully boxed in rather than a typical winged shaped?
I get that my attached pic shows tailights in the wedge, but that is not always the norm for the location nor I surmise the reason to box them in.
In reply to jcc :
The inner vertical edge of the diffuser meets up with the inner edge of the taillight assemble and so it's likely a convenient place to hang a tail light bracket.
I also suspect that the taillight bracket cheese wedge in not in any kind of meaningful air flow so that is the best spot to put it.
An LMP3 car is going to crush the opposition like Godzilla vs Bambi.
LMP3 cars are somewhere in the 1:17s (maybe faster) at Laguna Seca. For comparison my cousin runs a SCCA P2 Stohr and he set a new lap record at 1:25.
This should be very interesting to watch.
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