{"id":3195,"date":"2018-09-01T07:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T10:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?page_id=3195"},"modified":"2023-02-21T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:42:18","slug":"porsche-919-hybrid-2-spark-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/porsche-919-hybrid-2-spark-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche 919 Hybrid #2 – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid #2<\/b> \nPilots: T. Bernhard, B. Hartley, E. Bamber \nTeam: Porsche LMP Team<\/i> \nRace: 1st place (LMP1 class) at Le Mans in 2017 <\/strong>\nSpark - MAP02031717 (resin)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 09\/01\/18<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the world of high-level racing, you can\u2019t stand still. It doesn\u2019t matter if you won before. Even with victories at La Sarthe in 2015 and 2016, Porsche didn\u2019t stop developing the 919 Hybrid. So for the 2017 season, Stuttgart made quite a few modifications to the car. According to Porsche, 60 to 70 per cent of the vehicle was newly developed. To make the cars safer, for 2017 FIA limited the amount of downforce that a LMP1 could produce. What that meant was that LMP1 cars would be slower on corners, so the 919\u2019s aerodynamics had to be totally revised. However, the 919 retained the previous 2.0 V4 gasoline-powered engine and hybrid system. What Porsche did was optimize the energy recovery systems to feed even more power to an updated lithium-ion battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Can I complain about the livery?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The 2017 24 Heures du Mans<\/i> was Porsche\u2019s 19th overall victory at La Sarthe. But it was not <\/i>an easy path to the podium. The 919 #2 here had a motor generator unit failure in the fourth hour that dropped the car to 55th place! With a drawback like that, the general consensus was that the car was out of the race, so to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Hybrid #2 was the last Porsche prototype for La Sarthe… At least for now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, the 919 #1 sister car was doing very well. By lunchtime on Sunday it had amassed a lead of 13 laps. But with just three hours to go #1 ground to a halt with a lack of oil pressure. Undaunted and with the generator fixed, 919 #2 was steadily recovering. With brilliant piloting, Bernhard, Hartley and Bamber<\/a>, in the penultimate hour, finally managed to pass Jackie Chan\u2019s ORECA 07 #38<\/a>. Finally Porsche was on the lead again and 919 #2 finished in 1st place<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The complete winning trio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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First things first: this is a grail model for me. But the livery is (really) boring. And it looks a lot like it\u2019s predecessors. So a \u201cgrail model\u201d, why? Two reasons. First, the story behind the Hybrid #2. It\u2019s a blood-sweat-and-tears story, exactly the kind of story that makes Le Mans so dear to me. And second, this is the last Porsche prototype that we\u2019ll see at La Sarthe for a loooong<\/em> time. Model-wise it\u2019s terrific, an awesome effort by Spark, just like the 2016 and 2015<\/a> cars. All three are very neat models. However, if I were to choose, I would say that #19 is my favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid #2 Pilots: T. Bernhard, B. Hartley, E. Bamber Team: Porsche LMP Team Race: 1st place (LMP1 class) at Le Mans in 2017 Spark – MAP02031717 (resin) Published 09\/01\/18 In the world of high-level racing, you can\u2019t stand still. It doesn\u2019t matter if you won before. Even with victories at La Sarthe … Continue reading “Porsche 919 Hybrid #2 – Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15239,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3195\/revisions\/15239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}