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Thursday, May 5, 2011
The new Audi R18 TDI, Audi with the objectives of the tenth victory in the famous 24-hour Le Mans in June 11/12 today, "tomorrow" technology. When developing new LMP1 sports cars and the electrification of the future of the gas and the various possible methods of energy recovery are included.
"We are very conscious of such systems," explains Head of Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich. "In our opinion, only if the technology proves to be most effective we will be able to use at Le Mans."
Although diesel engines have limited repeat the provisions of victory since their introduction in 2006, the Audi TDI Power referring again to his new LMP1. "Self Audi TDI engine and is convinced that technology is one of the most powerful and most modern forms of power -. Especially car at Le Mans, where special high-performance engine, low fuel consumption and exhaust emissions are a necessity"
New regulations by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), developed and introduced this year to dictate a much smaller engines. Audi revealed a particularly compact 3.7-liter V6 TDI, which is equipped with a 25 percent lighter than the older V10 TDI R15 TDI, and all options on the techniques of electrification and energy recovery chosen. "It would not be in the case of V8, for example, what is permitted by the rules," said Ulrich Baretzky, head of engine development at Audi Sport.
However, Audi is not only a very compact engine with a surprise. The concept is an innovative LMP1 sports cars. To reduce stress where possible and improving the flow of air through the car dealer was on the left and right side of the engine sitting between the two cylinder banks of the migration of gas. "Hot site inside" is the name for the concept of specialists, which was carried out in similar form in Formula 1 in 1980. But the V6 TDI in the Audi R18 TDI Power, which cylinder angle of 120 degrees, and hence very low center of gravity, is technically referred to as the generations along the line, and is also a demonstrator engine technology in the future.
In contrast to previous Le Mans sports car, Audi, all with two turbochargers, R18 TDI is logically only directly with a single turbocharger, who also sits on the motor and draws air through air intake mounted on the roof. "In this way we can transform the dynamic pressure generated at high speeds with minimal loss of power," said Dr. Martin Muehlmeier, Head of Technology at Audi Sport car.
