Corsa Motorsports delays hybrid ALMS car until 2009
Just over a month ago at the Detroit Grand Prix weekend, Corsa Motorsports announced its intention compete in the ALMS LMP1 class with a hybrid-powered race car built in England by Zytek. The new car was supposed to debut this weekend at the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta. Unfortunately, earlier this week, the Utah-based team decided that the hybrid system wasn't quite ready for primetime. According to a release on the team's website, they are confident in the safety of the system, but the reliability is still a concern. Therefore, Zytek is continuing to exercise the system on its dynamometers until they are confident that the system can run the full race distance. In the meantime, Corsa, which is moving up from the GT2 class where it has been running a Ferrari F430GT, is running the Zytek chassis with a conventional E10-fueled 4.0L V8. Hopefully, we'll see the hybrid system running at the 2009 season opener at Sebring.
[Source: Corsa Motorsports]
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Travis Rassat 11:00AM (10/06/2008)
Thank you for the update on this. As a relatively new ALMS fan, my sources for ALMS information aren't the best - I had no idea they weren't running the hybrid setup.
I saw that the Corsa Zytek didn't qualify too well related to the the other P1 cars, and then lost track of what was happening after they switched from Speed TV.
This is such an amazing series with so much potential, but I think it could use some better coverage.
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