AMWEC: Will V12‘s take over next season?The AMWEC did not have V12‘s last season. And now that they are coming next season, we have some facts and questions about that. We want to know what will happen on the track, and how the cars will compete with V12‘s. Here is what we came up with.
V12‘s are powerful beast’s. These engines will scare off the competition in AMWEC. At least we expect. For AGTE and AP2 it is not much of an issue. They have turbochargers on their side. The V12‘s will certainly give the previous cars a run for their money, but that is only for those two classes. It is AP1 that is going to get scared. They have no turbos, which means their engines can’t be powerful enough to compete without reaching maximum engine capacity (5500cc), or wasting fuel. Most people will take advantage of the V12‘s and use them in their cars. But we don’t know what will happen, so we got the creator of AMWEC, SillyWorld to answer our questions.
Speedemon: Will their be any rules changed with the arrival of V12‘s?
SillyWorld: Yes, there will be some changes, but not precisely for the arrival of v12s. The main change i's bigger displacement for the engines (up to 6000cc for NA engines for AGTE, 5800cc NA for the AP1 and AP2) and you will be allow to de-bore and de-stroke an engine to meet the regulations. The most common complain with the current set of rules is the eligibility for the AGTE class. Some competitors already had cars but couldn't participate because of the displacement limit, or the number of doors. The AGTE will PROBABLY be divided into 2 classes, one for (limited production) hypercars, gts... with 2 doors and one for more common production cars with up to 5 doors.
Speedemon: How do you think the competitors will take advantage of V12‘s?
SillyWorld: It's a 2 edged word, V12s has the highest output per liter, but they also are heavier and really long. So we might see a lot of V12s in the AGTE cars, but probably the prototypes will stick to traditional v8s.
Speedemon: Do you think there will be any downsides to V12‘s in the AMWEC?
SillyWorld: They're heavier and need more fuel to keep running. And (at least today) there are not enough car bodies that can take big v12s.
Speedemon: How do you think this will change competition on track?
SillyWorld: It's hard to tell! But I can almost see the posts "damn, how in the hell does strop goes so fast and mine it's slower even though I use a V12?!?"
The main goal for the next set of rules it's to balance out a little bit more the competition. The current rules were made to make the GT cars be as competitive as the prototypes (unlike real life)... but it turns out they became to competitive! If the V12s were being available for this season, the AGTEs will be truly unstoppable.
Speedemon: For my last question, what are the good things about V12‘s being part of the AMWEC?
SillyWorld: More variety, and more fun. Now the competitors have more options when designing engines. And I think that's the most fun part for a challenge/competition. When you have a goal and you have many ways to achieve it. And if you don't like what you design, you could just re-do it, try other things, and get a completely new result!
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 11:38 am
