47-496: The DeltaWing is a racing car designed by British race car designer and engineer Ben Bowlby and debuted at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans . The entry was run under the Project 56 name, composed of Ben Bowlby (design), Dan Gurney 's All American Racers (constructor), Duncan Dayton's Highcroft Racing (racing team) and International Motor Sports Association owner Don Panoz (managing partner). Nissan 's NISMO division provided
94-420: A 40 litres (8.8 imp gal; 11 US gal) fuel tank, bespoke BBS 38 centimetres (15 in) wheels and Michelin tyres, a weight of 475 kilograms (1,047 lb), a power-to-weight ratio of 631 horsepower (464 kW) per ton, and a drag coefficient of 0.35. The braking system weighs 13.2 kilograms (29.2 lb), about half the normal weight for a race car. Also unique compared to other race cars
141-481: A 40-litre fuel tank (26.67 L/100 km or 8.82 mi/gal). After failing to complete the 24 hours of Le Mans, DeltaWing was granted an unclassified entry to the 2012 Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta . After rebuilding the car from a collision in practice the DeltaWing went on to finish fifth overall, completing 388 laps to the overall winner's 394. The car also underwent testing for its potential inclusion as
188-550: A category reserved for experimental vehicles. Despite skepticism over the project, the DeltaWing made its on-track debut on March 1, 2012, completing a shakedown at Buttonwillow Raceway Park . The DeltaWing was planned to compete at the 2012 Petit Le Mans . Panoz stated that he hoped that the car would be allowed under the LMP1 and LMP2 regulations of the American Le Mans Series in 2013, or that it would replace
235-561: A classified entry in the American Le Mans Series starting in 2013. The DeltaWing was entered in the 2013 American Le Mans Series in the P1 class, now using an Élan chassis and a 1.9 liter four-cylinder turbocharged gasoline engine producing 350 bhp, built by Élan and based on a Mazda design. The team was headed by David Price, former owner of David Price Racing . The new car debuted at 12 Hours of Sebring , where it
282-560: A high performance lightweight powertrain. The engine was a new RML design, a 3-cylinder 1.5 litre weighing only 40 kg and producing over 400 bhp. The ZOED RC suffered a gearbox failure due to a new part with a material defect early in the 24 hour race, however in practice had achieved the first ever all electric lap of Le Mans and over 300 km/h on in Electric mode. Taking advantage of its relationship to Ecurie Ecosse , RML made its debut in touring car racing in 1992 , by moving to
329-666: A new lap record. In 1999, RML returned sportscars by producing the RML Mallock P20 Supersports Car, in association with Mallock Sports his brother Richard's company. The car won the National Supersports championships in 1999 and in 2000, when it was driven by Michael Mallock . In 2000, RML created the Saleen S7 supercar initially as a road car, and then the racing version the S7-R, winning
376-629: A normally aspirated V8 engine developed by Honda Performance Development , the same engine used in the HPD ARX-01 . RML competed in the Le Mans Series in 2011 with a HPD ARX-01d LMP2 car, becoming the second team to run the ARX-01 in Europe after Strakka Racing. In 2012, RML developed a new engine on behalf of Nissan for the unique Nissan DeltaWing RML, as Nissans Motorsport Partner ran
423-888: A team. RML built the works Nissan Sentra for the South African Touring Car Championship . At the end of 1997, Opel decided to cut down its involvement in touring cars, and contracted RML to the develop the Opel Astra Kit-car for the Formula 2 regulations for them in the World Rally Championship and several national rallying championships in Europe. In 1999, the RML Astra won titles in Germany, Norway and Sweden. In late 2000 Opel assigned RML to design and build
470-515: A time of 3:42.612, which was 18.825 behind the lead car. The car was retired after 75 laps following an accident in which the DeltaWing ran into a concrete barrier at the Porsche Curves after a collision with Kazuki Nakajima 's Toyota TS030 Hybrid . The DeltaWing recorded a best race lap time of 3:45.737, rivaling some of the LMP2 teams. The car did 11 laps on one tank, that is 150 km on
517-530: Is that 72.5 percent of the mass and 76 percent of the downforce is at the rear. It has a moveable Gurney flap , normally not allowed but can be used by experimental vehicles. In 2013, a coupe variant of the DeltaWing was unveiled at the 12 Hours of Sebring race and made its race debut at the 2013 American Le Mans Series round at Austin in September. The redesign was intended to bring the DeltaWing in line with Le Mans Prototype P1 regulations, and to minimize
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#1732779896227564-586: The British Touring Car Championship . The team ran two semi-works Vauxhall Cavaliers for Ecurie Ecosse for two years. RML built its first ground up Super touring car the Vauxhall Cavalier RML P7 in 1993, it took RML's maiden BTCC victory with David Leslie at the wheel at Thruxton. Due to the team's success, RML was awarded with the works Vauxhall contract in 1994 taking over from Dave Cook Racing , winning
611-532: The Chicago Auto Show . Ganassi and the team partners own the car and its patents. In July 2010, IndyCar chose a Dallara design instead. Bowlby then worked with Don Panoz to present the idea to representatives from the Automobile Club de l'Ouest , organizers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans . They applied for and received an invitation to race in the 2012 Le Mans race as a "Garage 56" entrant,
658-870: The European Le Mans Series in the GT1 class in 2001 and the Spanish GT Championship overall in 2002. In 2004 RML entered the FIA GT Championship with two cars. Also in 2004, RML ran an MG-Lola EX257 in the Le Mans 24 Hours and Le Mans Endurance Series . After the design became obsolete with the onset of new LMP2 regulations, RML merged components from the EX257 into the Lola B05/40 's chassis and bodyshell, creating
705-745: The Geneva Auto Show . In 2011, RML showcased the Nissan Juke-R with Nissan announcing a limited production run of 'the worlds fastest crossover' in 2012. In 2014, RML developed and built the Q50 Eau Rouge concept on behalf of Infiniti Motor Co. RML Group produced a road-legal converted version of the Aston Martin Vulcan some time before 2018. In 2021, RML showcased the Short Wheelbase , essentially
752-631: The Opel Corsa for the new Super 1600 category, which replaced the F2 kit-cars. The car made its competition debut in the 2002 JWRC class of the Monte Carlo Rally and its first title the following year. During this period RML were responsible for the build, development and customer support of all Opel Astra and Corsa Rally cars. RML considered lodging an entry for the 2010 Formula One World Championship , however decided against it, citing
799-535: The Oreca FLM09 as the LMP Challenge spec car. On February 5, 2013, Marshall Pruett of Speed Channel revealed that Don Panoz would enter the DeltaWing in the road course events on the American Le Mans Series for the 2013 season. Panoz will develop the car without the DeltaWing's original partners Nissan , All American Racers and Michelin . Instead of the car being set to P2 regulations, Panoz made
846-669: The new Chevrolet Cruze was introduced and took 6 wins in the first year. In 2010 , the Chevrolet team won both the Manufacturers Championship by a substantial 74 points and, with Yvan Muller , won the Drivers Championship. The RML Chevrolet team won the WTCC again in 2011 with Muller and again in 2012 with Rob Huff. On 4 July 2012, Chevrolet Europe announced that the 2012 season will be the last for
893-492: The 2013 model to P1 specifications as well as enable the car to compete for points as a fully classified P1 entry. The Sebring version continued to be an open top prototype, but later versions were closed top. The power plant was a 2.0L Mazda MZR-based engine produced by Élan Motorsport Technologies which is currently producing 345 hp on the dyno and is lighter than the RML-built Nissan engine of 2012. A lawsuit
940-470: The BTCC with drivers Jason Plato and Rob Huff, at the end of the year RML moved into the WTCC with Chevrolet. RML re-entered the BTCC in 2009 , running their ex-WTCC Chevrolet Lacettis for 2001 champion Jason Plato , Mat Jackson since round two and James Nash since round four. Their 2009 campaign has brought good results, taking 11 wins and Plato taking second in the drivers championship. In 2010 , RML ran
987-613: The British Champ Car race at the Rockingham race track. RML's engineering skills were used in road-going cars for the first time in 1990, when the company built a small number of Ford GT40 replicas. In 1994, RML created several concept sketches for an undisclosed Japanese manufacturer. In 1999, RML returned with two different projects, the Opel Astra Concept DTM , a road-going prototype based on
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#17327798962271034-556: The Chevrolet WTCC team. On 4 March 2013, RML announced they would enter the WTCC in 2013 as an independent two-car entry with Chevrolet Cruzes run for Yvan Muller and new recruit from the closed down Team Aon team, Tom Chilton . Muller will win the 2013 WTCC championship & Chilton finishes 5th overall. Since 2014, RML develops the Chevrolet Cruze to the new 2014 TC1 specs for various teams, but did not field
1081-569: The MG-Lola EX264, which won Le Mans in the LMP2 class in 2005 and 2006. The team's car was further upgraded for the 2008 Le Mans Series season , using a new XP21 motor developed by MG, and renaming the car EX265. This car was then replaced before the season finale by a coupe bodystyle, based on the new Lola B08/80 . Using components of the EX265, including the MG XP21 motor, the new car
1128-625: The Mallock U2 chassis for Clubmans racing. After racing in Formula 3 , Formula Atlantic and sports car racing , Mallock founded his team, Ray Mallock Atlantic Racing, in 1979, which he renamed RML in 1984. Ray Mallock, a driver for Viscount Downe Racing, helped develop the privateer Aston Martin -powered Nimrod NRA/C2 for Group C regulations in the World Endurance Championship in 1982, 1983 and 1984. In 1984, RML
1175-523: The Opel Astra Coupé the German company would debut the following year, and the ground up design of the Saleen S7 . In 2003, Nissan ordered a prototype based on the new Nissan Micra , powered initially by a 265 hp (198 kW) Touring Car race engine (with a 6-speed sequential gearbox ), and later by a 309 hp (230 kW) Nismo tuned V6 engine and called Micra R. The car debuted in
1222-651: The P1 class no longer competes in the USCC the DeltaWing race team continued to run in their P1 specification of 490 kg and 350 bhp. The DeltaWing led 15 laps of the 10-hour finale at Road Atlanta , the Petit Le Mans , en route to a season-high fourth-place finish. For the 2015 United SportsCar Championship, Legge had a new partner in Memo Rojas , whereas Meyrick joined at Daytona and Sebring, and Gabby Chaves at Daytona. The team spent significant time at
1269-721: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 203554711 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:44:56 GMT RML Group Ray Mallock Ltd. , also known as RML Group , is a motorsports and high performance engineering company, based in Wellingborough , Northamptonshire , United Kingdom . Ray Mallock began building racing cars, alongside his brother Richard, as an assistant to his father, Major Arthur Mallock, who created
1316-576: The Works Chevrolet team in the BTCC , winning the drivers championship with Jason Plato . On 1 February 2012, Chevrolet announced that they will be pulling out of the BTCC to focus on the WTCC, therefore RML will not be taking part in the 2012 BTCC season. RML won the contract to build, develop and run the works Chevrolet Lacetti in the WTCC from the 2005 season . The Lacetti won 1 race in its first year, 7 wins in 2007 and 5 wins in 2008. In 2009
1363-463: The bumps of the street course), the team encountered braking issues that would plague them until an engine failure forced the car to be retired. After the 2016 season it wouldn't be possible anymore to race with the DeltaWing, due to changed regulations. Don Panoz told the press that they had some unfinished business with the Rolex 24. It would be in the same class as the new DPi's and LMP2's according to
1410-528: The car and provided engineering and technical support at Le Mans 24 hours and Petit Le Mans where it finished 5th overall. For 2014, RML were engaged to design and build the Nissan ZEOD RC, an innovative racing car designed to run in Le Mans Garage 56. The car was the first to switch between Electric and Petrol powered Propulsion. RML were responsible for the whole vehicle, including developing
1457-598: The car debuted at The Circuit of the America's race. It qualified last in P1; 8 seconds slower than the leading P1 car and was also slower than all the P2 cars. In the race it completed 66 laps to the winner's 83 and finished 29th overall and last in the P1 class. The DeltaWing began competing in the new United SportsCar Championship in 2014. The four drivers at the 24 Hours of Daytona were Meyrick, Legge, eventual Indy Lights champion Gabby Chaves and Alexander Rossi . Whilst
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1504-470: The championship the following year. The RML Vauxhall Cavalier RML P11 won the 1995 in both the teams and Drivers standings. Vauxhall launched the new Vectra RML P12 for 1996. The season was a transitional year with the team scoring just one victory with James Thompson . RML's association with Nissan in touring car racing began with the design of South African Touring car championship Sentra RML P8 in 1993. It grew in 1997 moving on from Vauxhall to become
1551-464: The chance of the driver's head being hit in the event of an accident. There are also several other changes to the design: including the adoption of a purpose-built monocoque (rather than the Aston Martin derived one used on the previous car), and addition of a roof mounted air intake. The car was first tested in September 2013. The new closed top chassis was given the designation DWC13 as opposed to
1598-528: The current uncertainty over 2010 regulations as their reason for doing so. They were to use Cosworth engines had they submitted an entry. RML have also said they are still considering an entry into Formula One in the future. In 2002, RML entered the British ASCAR stock car series, based on ASA -type racing, winning the 2002 and 2003 titles with Nicolas Minassian and Ben Collins . Also in 2002, RML prepared Darren Manning 's Team St. George car for
1645-583: The engine in return for naming rights for part of 2012. The DeltaWing was built and maintained at Panoz headquarters in Braselton, Georgia , US. The project began in January 2009, when British designer Ben Bowlby created a potential new IndyCar Series design for the 2012 season . With financial backing from Chip Ganassi , owner of Chip Ganassi Racing , the prototype was unveiled in February 2010 at
1692-409: The field, leading a total of 29 laps between Legge and Meyrick before the latter crashed into a stationary vehicle in the semi-blind Turn 1. The bad luck followed the team to Sebring, where the steering broke while running in eighth position, leaving the car to retire from the event. After starting sixth at Long Beach (which had skipped the event every year since 2013 due to fears of suspension trouble on
1739-789: The front of the field during the first 90 minutes, only to retire due to recurring problems with the car's redesigned gearbox. The team finished only three out of nine appearances, with a best results of sixth at Road America. They finished eighth in the Prototypes teams standings. In 2016, Legge would have two part-time co-drivers in Andy Meyrick and Sean Rayhall sharing a seat and driving together in North American Endurance Cup , with Andreas Wirth joining them at Daytona. The team elected not to qualify at Daytona because of poor conditions, but quickly moving through
1786-442: The name suggests, it has a delta wing shape, with an unusually narrow 2.0 feet (61 cm) front track and a more traditional 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in) rear track. The car lacks any front or rear wings – downforce comes from the underbody. In 2012, the engine was a four-cylinder turbocharged direct injection 300 bhp unit assembled by Ray Mallock Engineering with largely Chevrolet parts. The model to run at Le Mans had
1833-420: The open top DWC12 used previously, although some unofficial sources still refer to the coupe as DWC12. In June 2011 it was announced that the car would fill the 56th garage at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans , reserved for experimental vehicles. As with all Le Mans cars, the DeltaWing was a two-seater. Marino Franchitti , Michael Krumm and Satoshi Motoyama drove the DeltaWing at Le Mans. It qualified 29th with
1880-559: The organization. In November 2016 it was confirmed that the DeltaWing wouldn't race in the 2017 Rolex 24. (key) Races in bold indicates pole position . Races in italics indicates fastest lap. Did not finish the race but was classified as they completed more than 70% of the race distance. (key) Races in bold indicates pole position . Races in italics indicates fastest lap. (key) Races in bold indicates pole position . Races in italics indicates fastest lap. Racing car Too Many Requests If you report this error to
1927-556: The season with drivers Meyrick and Katherine Legge . It only scored two times, with a best place of 5th overall at Road America (last in P1 and beaten by 2 PC-class cars). The car was notably absent from Long Beach and Baltimore, the reason given by the Deltawing Team Manager, Dave Price was "At the moment, we're not planning to do Long Beach or Baltimore, principally because we're not convinced it would be ideally suited for those [street] circuits". The coupe version of
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1974-471: The similarly designed and technologically derived Nissan ZEOD RC and BladeGlider concept car, was settled out of court for confidential terms in March 2016. The DeltaWing was designed to reduce aerodynamic drag dramatically, to allow a marginally faster straight and corner speed than a 2009–2011 Dallara IndyCar on both ovals and road/street courses with half as much weight, engine power and fuel consumption. As
2021-530: The works partner for Nissan in Super Touring, being responsible for the build, development and operation of the BTCC cars as well as the build of the cars for the German and Japanese series. The team won the BTCC manufacturers' and teams' titles in 1998 & 1999 with RML project numbers P17 & P18 respectively and the drivers' championship in 1999 with Laurent Aïello . In 2004 , RML contracted with SEAT Sport UK to run two SEAT Toledo Cupras in
2068-637: Was christened the EX265C, and made its debut at the 2008 1000km of Silverstone . In 2009, the team turned to the Mazda MZR-R turbocharged engine in the back of the Lola B08/80, abandoning the MG moniker, but issues with the spec fuel caused several engine failures over the season, the car finishing only twice over the whole season. For the 2010 season, the team is retaining the Lola B08/80 chassis, but with
2115-590: Was contracted to build the Ecurie Ecosse prototypes for the C2 class, winning the class title in 1986. In 1987, RML returned to the main class by developing the Aston Martin AMR-1 . The project was closed in 1990, but RML found work with the works Nissan team instead. RML developed and prepared NPTI's Nissan R90CK programme for Le Mans. One of the cars manages to lead the race for five hours and set
2162-486: Was driven by Olivier Pla and Andy Meyrick . Pla qualified the car in fifteenth place, ten seconds off the pace the Audi R18 that qualified on pole, and five seconds slower than its nearest rival in the P1 class, but 5 seconds ahead of the fastest GT class car. After struggling with temperatures all week, the car retired in the second hour with a terminal engine failure after only ten laps. The DeltaWing competed most of
2209-418: Was filed on November 22, 2013, by the DeltaWing consortium (Don Panoz, Chip Ganassi) against the former designer of the DeltaWing, Ben Bowlby and former engine-supplier Nissan for “damages and injunctive relief arising out of theft of confidential and proprietary information, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contracts, unjust enrichment, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation. The lawsuit, arising from
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