Nissan has unveiled its experimental DeltaWing racecar which is going to participate at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race.
The car is powered by a race-prepared, Nissan sourced 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine, featuring direct petrol injection and a turbocharger (DIG-T), for which the performance figures remain unspecified at this point.
With the DeltaWing project Nissan is "aiming to change the face of endurance racing forever" due to the fact that we are talking about something that is half the weight and has half the aerodynamic drag of a conventional racer.
Apart from serving as a test bed for new road car technologies, the DeltaWing also requires half the fuel of its conventional counterparts, so it will definitely be interesting to see how it performs at the 2012 edition of Le Mans on 16-17 June.
As motor racing rulebooks have become tighter over time, racing cars
look more and more similar and the technology used has had less and less
relevance to road car development. Nissan DeltaWing aims to change that
and we were an obvious choice to become part of the project," said Andy
Palmer, Executive Vice President, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd
The Nissan DeltaWing car will wear number ‘0’ and will run outside race classification.
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