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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2012, 05:58:09 pm »
they have also dropped the haldex and are instead running it in FWD only!!!

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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2012, 07:02:55 pm »
Very surprising and strange but they have obviously tested it and got good results.

A4 goes well up a hill.



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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2012, 08:40:59 pm »
Haldex is dead weight in anything other than wet. To a race team anyway.
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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2012, 08:55:08 pm »
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That's right, folks. This Audi TTRS Race Car is FWD. Not for class regulations, or homologization requirements, either. It's front wheel drive because it's faster.

Just class.

I wonder if it would be faster still as RWD.

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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2012, 09:48:43 pm »
I suppose this sort of closes the argument of 4wd vs fwd then! Obviously every car is different but on a dry track with fwd and no added weight it's the way to go. 4wd has its advantages in the wet and on sprints.

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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2012, 09:50:32 pm »
It's front wheel drive because it's faster.
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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2012, 10:46:26 pm »
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!


Maybe on a dry track with the same mods and a good driver.

In the UK that ain't all that often! :laugh:
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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2012, 12:28:32 am »
Apparently the FWD ttrs vln racer is quicker in  the wet around the nurburgring than the r8 racecar, and only 4 secs a lap slower in the dry.

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Re: 034 Motorsport TTRS.
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2012, 01:18:30 am »
4WD is just extra weight to carry even in the wet, for a race spec car of this quality. The aero packages and correct set up mean they have all the grip they need add this to modern full wets and there is not a lot of difference between wet and dry.
I went out for a few laps at Oulton park in a Motorsport Elise that was built for the Britcar comp. It was teaming down and the car had full wets on. It was the fastest i have been round a track in any weather let alone teaming rain, the faster he went the more you could feel the aero dynamics pushing the car down into the track, it was a strange sensation almost felt like oversteer on the bends. If you look at the pic above you can see it has a complete aero package specific to the car, the canards in the front bumper are in a very unusual place suggesting a lot of work has gone into putting them in the right place.
Also if you watch the World Touring cars there is no difference between the front and rear wheel drive cars. It is all about getting every ounce  of excess weight out of them.  One of the cars that crashed out in quali at Macau was because it had qualifying only driveshafts to save a couple of grams.  :surprised:
The VLN cars are very serious pieces of kit. I was in Milteks golf R ( as a passenger )at the Nurburgring being driven by Richard Marshall who is a semi pro driver and he knows the place like the back of his hand. We were hurling along at silly speeds when a Z4 VLN car drove round the outside of us on a bend up on the curbs and grass.  :laugh: