2015 General WEC/ELMS/AsLMS Discussion ThreadSports Cars 

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They should go with red anyway, makes it look like this thing:
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Which isn't a bad thing at all.
 
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Speaking of not a bad thing...
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Beautiful KCMG ORECA.

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Wow, the new LMP2s this year sure aren't joking around in the livery department, huh? The Oreca looks very good, love the blue they they used for the car. But the Dome takes the cake, Strakka really made a black car that looks both good and unique at the same time. And the car itself is already one of the best LMP2 designs of the current prototype season, so there's that.

Also, I'm a bit confused about the "3 shades of Porsche" bit; which colour are they using, again? :confused:
 
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Wow, the new LMP2s this year sure aren't joking around in the livery department, huh? The Oreca looks very good, love the blue they they used for the car. But the Dome takes the cake, Strakka really made a black car that looks both good and unique at the same time. And the car itself is already one of the best LMP2 designs of the current prototype season, so there's that.

Also, I'm a bit confused about the "3 shades of Porsche" bit; which colour are they using, again? :confused:
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White cars for WEC, 3 colours for LM.
 
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White cars for WEC, 3 colours for LM.
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Ah, so it's their traditional white for WEC, and the combo of black, white and red for Le Mans. Got it, thanks. 👍

Also, I was just looking at that Strakka Dome picture; the cabin looks far different from the usual LMP2 cab, no? Or is that just me?
 
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Also, I was just looking at that Strakka Dome picture; the cabin looks far different from the usual LMP2 cab, no? Or is that just me?
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It suffers from micro-DP Gen 1 disease in that particular area.
 
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I think it looks that way because the center tunnel is much higher than the Oreca.
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Yes, that picture makes it more clear. I have to say, the Union Flag in black, on the fin of the car, looks really badass. I dunno why, but it just does.
 
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I wasn't having a go, just a common mistake that people call it the Union Jack.
 
Funnily enough, in Ireland "Jackeen" is an insult for people from Dublin - it's an Anglicisation of "jackín", which in Irish literally means "little Jack", and the Jack bit came from the "Union Jack" nickname.
 
As far as I'm aware Union Jack or Union Flag are both equally valid terms to refer to it. Interestingly the flag only holds official status in Canada, where it is known as the Royal Union Flag.
 
Sorry to go off topic, but in regards to the Strakka, is it still a union flag if it's not red, white and blue?
 
They use the reflective chrome on the roofs as it helps keeps cockpit temperatures down (which is part of the rules).
 
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Sorry to go off topic, but in regards to the Strakka, is it still a union flag if it's not red, white and blue?
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When I was younger I had a shirt with a similar design on it, I thought it looked kinda cool - however I was not so politely informed by a fat bloke with a fag and a pint of lager (it was in the days before the smoking ban), that there "ain't no black on the union jack"... assuming he was an expert vexillologist with a good grasp of the language, then I'd think the Strakka livery could be classed as a 'Union Jack' . On the other hand, he could just have been a fat ignorant racist, spouting double negatives.... personally.... if the colours aren't right, then the flag isn't right, I think the correct term would simply be "a stylised union flag".
 
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They use the reflective chrome on the roofs as it helps keeps cockpit temperatures down (which is part of the rules).
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There's a use for everything, in the car racing world... Never guessed chrome could be used for the purpose of lowering temperatures.
 
Reflects the sun better, Peugeot started using it on the 908 in 2009.
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Reflects the sun better, Peugeot started using it on the 908 in 2009.
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I think he's referring to chrome being integrated into at least half of all liveries at the minute. It's hard to work in properly and it ends up looking tacky.
 
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