Attention racers,
Event 43 is over, and here are the abridged results, with full results and more on the event sheet.
PHLS#44 officially starts now, with what some (namely one Enzo Ferrari) would call the perfect kind of car. Well, the perfect kind of car if you had to make road cars. Full details and polls for events 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50 in the top post.
There is a new poll up in the top post, to pick a track for event 50, the season 2 finale. It will be a multiclass thing, with some fast racecars, and some slower roadcars. There is a theme to it, but shhh, it’s a secret.
Enzo Ferrari is known for a few things. The Scuderia Ferrari of course, and the car company that spawned to finance it, but also his temperament. Though Enzo didn’t really want to do it, if he had to put cars on the road for regular people to buy, they had to adhere to his stubborn vision. It had to be a free-breathing V12, the most noble of engines. It had to be powerful, aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines after all. It had to be pushed from the rear, with the horses in front of the car.
That kind of car is a dying breed. Forced induction has imposed itself as a way to gain more power out of smaller engines, and smaller engines as a way to go through emission standards. Hybrid and electric powertrains have become the norm. Supercars are so powerful they need all four wheels to be driven, with dozens of computers and electronic systems to keep them on the road. The last naturally aspirated, RWD, front-engine V12 car may be the Ferrari 12Cilindri. Aston Martin has already moved towards turbocharged V8s, and Ferrari has already moved into the hybrid all-wheel-drive space.