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For those of you that are in to motorsport (not nascar), might have heard or read about Toyota's outright victory in this year Tokachi 24hour Enduro. The car has been praised for being the first hybrid win in an international motorsport event. It even beat the second place car by 19 laps (wow)! The car is the "Toyota Team Sard Supra HV-R".
At first when i read about the event, i was pleased and felt that toyota had achieved a great victory platform.....Which it is!
But later on as i did more research down the road i realized that the tokachi race is part of the Super Taikyu championship in japan. Here is the pic that raised my eyebrow!
Now Super Taikyu uses Fia Group N rules for competition and the fastest class: ST-1 consists of vehicles like this:
BMW Z4
Porsche 996 GT3
Now by just comparing the Supra to the Bimmer and Porsche you can see a world of difference.
The main being the power to weight ratio!
The HV-R Supra uses the 480hp SuperGT GT500 winning 3UZ-FE V8 and has 2 electric motors in the front wheels and a 3rd electric motor on the rear axle powering the rears wheels. Yes its AWD! The resulting HP IS 708.9 HP!
Race Engine Technology magazine actually Awarded this set up "2007 Race engine of the year"
So really, this is a 708.9 hp vehicle weighting in at under 2300 lbs racing cars that really are under a GT3 class designation!
Supra HV-R
So POWER/WEIGHT RATIO IS = 3.24<<
The second place finisher: Petronas BMW Z4
Power is had from a 3246 cc i6 with 12.5: 1 CR
396 PS at 8200rpm / Weight is 2750 lbs
with the conversion chart
POWER/WEIGHT RATIO IS = 6.94<<<<<
THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE! in reality thats like David losing to Goliath because Goliath had an M16 to go with the muscle!
It took me a good while but im still trying to decode the japanese on the Super Taikyu or Tokachi websites to compare the pole/fastest lap between the cars.
At first when i read about the event, i was pleased and felt that toyota had achieved a great victory platform.....Which it is!
But later on as i did more research down the road i realized that the tokachi race is part of the Super Taikyu championship in japan. Here is the pic that raised my eyebrow!
Now Super Taikyu uses Fia Group N rules for competition and the fastest class: ST-1 consists of vehicles like this:
BMW Z4
Porsche 996 GT3
Now by just comparing the Supra to the Bimmer and Porsche you can see a world of difference.
The main being the power to weight ratio!
The HV-R Supra uses the 480hp SuperGT GT500 winning 3UZ-FE V8 and has 2 electric motors in the front wheels and a 3rd electric motor on the rear axle powering the rears wheels. Yes its AWD! The resulting HP IS 708.9 HP!
Race Engine Technology magazine actually Awarded this set up "2007 Race engine of the year"
So really, this is a 708.9 hp vehicle weighting in at under 2300 lbs racing cars that really are under a GT3 class designation!
Supra HV-R
So POWER/WEIGHT RATIO IS = 3.24<<
The second place finisher: Petronas BMW Z4
Power is had from a 3246 cc i6 with 12.5: 1 CR
396 PS at 8200rpm / Weight is 2750 lbs
with the conversion chart
POWER/WEIGHT RATIO IS = 6.94<<<<<
THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE! in reality thats like David losing to Goliath because Goliath had an M16 to go with the muscle!
It took me a good while but im still trying to decode the japanese on the Super Taikyu or Tokachi websites to compare the pole/fastest lap between the cars.
