Veja o 1968 Howmet TX, carro de corrida com motor de helicóptero, despejar toda a sua potência no Autódromo de Monza

O Howmet TX (Turbine eXperimental) é um protótipo criado em 1968 pelo piloto Ray Heppenstall, para testar uma turbina a gás projetada para o uso aéreo em uma competição automobilística.

O chassis do carro foi produzido pela McKee Engineering. Já a turbina aérea foi emprestada pela Continental Aviation & Engineering, e o financiamento do projeto foi dado pela Howmet Corporation.

Embora não tenha sido a primeira tentativa de usar um motor aéreo em um carro de corrida, o Howmet TX foi o primeiro e até hoje é o único a vencer uma corrida, e conquistou um total de duas vitórias em corridas da Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) e dois primeiros lugares em provas de qualificação, tudo isto no único ano no qual disputou onze corridas.

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New Porsche Taycan sets a record at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife

08/26/2019

Porsche sets new standards for four-door, all-electric sports cars on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Consequently, test driver Lars Kern conquered the legendary track, famously known as the Green Hell, in seven minutes and 42 seconds. The lap time was set over the 20.6-kilometre course that’s usually used for record attempts. During the attempt, Lars Kern drove a pre-series Taycan.

“The Taycan is also suitable for race tracks and it convincingly proved that here on the world’s most challenging circuit,” Kern explains. “Again and again, I am impressed at how stable the all-electric sports car handles in high-speed sections, such as Kesselchen, and how neutrally it accelerates from tight sections, such as Adenauer Forst.”

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Cyan Racing, formerly named Polestar, has broken two Nürburgring lap records during development of the Lynk & Co 03 Cyan Concept, making it the fastest four-door car and the fastest front-wheel driven car in the world around the fearsome 21-kilometre Nordschleife circuit.

This also marks the first time that a Chinese manufacturer has claimed a record on the legendary German circuit with a mass production-based car.

The 528-hp Lynk & Co 03 Cyan Concept lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7 minutes and 20,143 seconds, averaging 170,4 km/h, with Thed Björk, the 2017 World Champion of touring car racing, behind the wheel.

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