F70/P1/918/R20 Racing

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Thanks!

Meg thought this part was funny:

"Rumor is, Glickenhaus tested KERS for Ferrari."

 

Drive her in Good Health!

 

KERS safety is a real issue. You can't let the batteries overheat or they will catch on fire and as burning batteries release oxygen you can't put that out. We worked a lot with the FIA to develop KERS safety systems.

 

KERS systems are VERY complex. If I were you I'd try every thing in your F70, EVERYTING and if there's a problem with it have it fixed immediately under warrantee. I'd also follow every instruction about servicing/maintaining especially ecu/car battery and KERS battery charging. The cost to fix these systems outside of warrantee will be astronomical.

It's interesting to note that Porsche is already developing a non KERS version of the 918.

 

From what I've been told it will be lighter and less expensive than the 918. It will likely also have a different motor as the 918 motor needs the KERS torque fill in as it's designed to make big HP but needs KERS to fill in until it comes on the cam. I've heard this one is now referred to as the 961.

I bet the Porsche forums will have more information.

Gererally my thoughts are KERS is very interesting and Porsche will get it right but the 918 will not be a lightweight and that's what you have to think about.

 

Especially with a V12 that makes a lot of torque. KERS makes more sense with a smaller motor that needs torque fill in.

Happy New Year!

 

When we raced at the Ring our 24 hour pace was about 8:30 seconds laps. Remember that our laps are "The Ring" plus the GP Circuit. We were able to recapture about 50 seconds per lap of 35KW KERS just from braking. This was used by our drivers to produce torque when we needed it mostly coming out of turns to fill in torque before the petrol engine could make it. We did this lap after lap for 24 finishing 12 OA, 1 in class. In Qualifying we ran "The Ring" in 6:51 with KERS. Since the 24 we re engineered our engine once again increasing it's displacement from 4 to 4.5 liters and improved our energy recapture and KERS cooling to increase our KERS to 50KW. Our Petrol Hp went from about 470 to 530 at the rear wheels. We also came up with a program that armed the KERS by GPS just after a hard brake point on the next full throttle application. We are now about 20 seconds a lap faster overall. The key to KERS is "ramming" charge into reluctant batteries at huge stepped up voltage VERY quickly by turning the KERS motor into a generator thus braking the rear wheels. This raises the KERS batteries temperature and we cooled the battery pack with AC and the generator/motor and inverter with liquid. We crunched huge data which we shared with the system's manufacture which is a FIAT owned company and made a lot of changes based on what we've learned. So far we're the highest finishing sports car hybrid in a 24 hour endurance race where KERS is allowed when ever you want to use it. At Le Mans so far you can only use it in a few spots.

We've gotten the FIA to allow Hybrids "GT3" level of Petrol HP and 50 KW of KERS. Under this formula 918/P1/F70 could all race and there are 4 24's that will let hybrids race. The 24 of Nurburgring, The 24 Hours of Spa, 24 in the Middle east and 24 in Asia. If a 918/P1 or F 70 shows up in 2014 we'll be back with P 4/5 C. In the meantime we're looking at designing, building and racing a Prototype and a GT in Grand Am/ALMS for two different manufactures in 2014. This Net TV show interestingly picked up on some of this.