Scorpion Motorsports Comes Up with 3-Wheeled Wonder
February 24, 2009
Automotive design firm Scorpion Motorsports has come up with a unique three-wheeled marvel, a lightweight sports car called the Scorpion Prodigy P6. And, mind you, it’s street legal.
With the tagline, “Three Wheels, Zero Compromises”, the Prodigy P6 features a single centrally-aligned rear wheel rather than two wheels on either side. This configuration is intended to give the Prodigy P6 maneuverability unheard of in standard-layout race cars. The setup also allows owners to register the lightweight Scorpion Prodigy cars as motorbikes, making them street legal in the process. The three-wheel configuration also eliminates much of the rolling friction in standard cars, allowing better efficiency. Hence, the driver also saves more on fuel.
Power emanates from a Suzuki Hayabusa 2002-2005 GSXR 600 four-cylinder engine, allowing the Prodigy P6 to reach 125 horsepower. It can go from 0-60 in a few shades over 3 seconds (it clocks in at 3.3 seconds).
The Scorpion Prodigy P6 is indeed a novel design, and it’s got some advantages that just might give it decent patronage. Then again, there are complicated regulations regarding registration and usage of 3-wheelers in every state, so that’s a roadblock potential buyers will have to deal with before they can enjoy their Prodigy.
Source: Motor Authority
F1: Wins Decide Driver’s Championship
January 18, 2009
Race wins will now determine who is number one in Formula One after the FIA approved a change in the points system. The current points system will still be implemented for second-placer to last place. The Constructor’s title is not covered by this new rule, and will still be decided by aggregate points won throughout the season.
There have been many instances where the driver with the most GP wins didn’t win the driver’s title, most recently in last season’s down-the-wire race where Lewis Hamilton won over Felipe Massa. Hamilton only needed to finish no lower than fifth in the final race to clinch the title, although Hamilton did rally quite remarkably from down the field to clinch his title.
It’s a system close to what Bernie Ecclestone described as something that will “incentivize drivers to race to win” (Ecclestone proposed a strictly medal-determined system), and there will be more aggressive battle plans and less settling for the lower places for positioning.
“Only the best driver should win the title,” said Ecclestone last December. Once the 2009 season goes underway, we can see if these rules will prove who the best driver is, without a sliver of a doubt.
On the side note, check out who would’ve won over the past F1 seasons
if this rule was in place from way back.
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FIA Working on Motorsport "World Engine"
January 8, 2009
Max Mosley, the president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, or the FIA, has revealed the organization’s plan to come up with a “world engine”, which would be used by competitors across a variety of FIA events by 2013, including Formula One, World Rally, and F2.
“It would work in turbocharged form for F1 and then all the way down to naturally aspirated form for the lesser categories and in a turbocharged or naturally aspirated form for the world rally championship,” said Mosley in a statement given while he was in Portugal.
The project is still in the “very early” planning phase, and Mosley did say that the car manufacturers are involved. F1 will likely have some developmental elbow room for additional technology such as KERS and other future energy recovery systems.
“If we can – and I’m not sure we can – find a way of combining all forms of motor sport in that system then this would be useful because of the huge sums spent on motor sport,” Moseley added. The idea still seems a bit farfetched at the moment, but we’ll see how this FIA project develops over the next few years.
Source: Motor Authority
US-Based Team in F1 by 2010
January 5, 2009
With Formula 1 teams in drastic cost-cutting mode, and with the exit of Honda from the prestigious motorsport, it’s easy to see why speculations about a new US-based team are starting to heat up.
The American team, which will reportedly be headed by engineer Ken Anderson, is said to be planning a launch in late February. There was already talk about a new American F1 team back in 2008.
Oddly enough, the most concrete details come from Motorsport-Total of Germany, which dropped the team’s name: USF1. They also gave the team’s slogan (“Made in America”) and pegged the team to make its debut by the 2010 season.
Interestingly, if you google “USF1”, the top result should be usf1.com, which shows only a logo splash page for now. We expect that the content in the site will be kept under wraps until an official launching of the team.
Source: Motor Authority
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