Cadillac Motor Car Division wrote:Cadillac revealed the all-new 2017 Cadillac DPi-V.R race car and announced that it will compete in the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship series, Prototype (P) class.
The 2017 Cadillac DPi-V.R will first be driven competitively at the 2017 IMSA season opener - the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 28-29, 2017 - by teams from Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing.
The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship series is the fastest and most technologically advanced sports car racing series in North America.
"Cadillac is proud to return to the pinnacle of prototype racing in North America after a 14-year absence," said Johan de Nysschen, president of Cadillac. "Cadillac's V-Performance production models - the ATS-V and CTS-V - are transforming our brand's product substance, earning a place among the world's elite high performance marques. The Cadillac DPi-V.R further strengthens our V-Performance portfolio, placing Cadillac into the highest series of sports car racing in North America."
The all-new Cadillac DPi-V.R has been designed to contribute to the functional performance of the prototype using elements gleaned from the current lineup of Cadillac V-Performance models, especially the CTS-V supersedan. Above all, the DPi-V.R was developed to perform, via testing in the wind tunnel and engineering development.
"The DPi-V.R race car was an exciting new canvas for the Cadillac design and sculpting team," said Andrew Smith, Global Cadillac Design executive director. "The studio embraced the opportunity to interpret the Cadillac form language, line work and graphic signature for this premier prototype racing application. Every detail of the final design was selected to support the car's on-track performance and unmistakable Cadillac presence."
The design details giving the DPi-V.R car its distinctive Cadillac appearance and presence include the vertical lighting signature; the sheer, sculptural quality of the body and bold bodyside feature line; V-Performance wheels with Brembo brakes; V-Performance emblems; and a canopy graphic inspired by the Cadillac daylight opening. Even subtle cues such as the cooling vents and the air intake were designed in the studio, the latter in the trapezoidal shape of the Cadillac crest.
The DPi-V.R is equipped with the new Rear Camera Mirror first seen on the Cadillac CT6 Sedan and available on the Cadillac CTS, XT5 and Escalade for the 2017 model year.
The Cadillac DPi-V.R is propelled by a race-prepared, normally aspirated Cadillac 6.2 liter V-8 engine that shares inherent architecture with the engines of the third-generation Cadillac CTS-V (640 horsepower) and fifth-generation Cadillac Escalade (420 horsepower). The engine produces approximately 600 horsepower when tuned for racing as defined by IMSA-mandated air restrictors, with a maximum allowable RPM of 7,600. The engine transfers power to the rear wheels through an X-TRAC paddle-shift transmission.
Cadillac and its designers collaborated with key partners including chassis builder Dallara, teams from Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing and ECR Engines to prepare the 6.2-liter V-8-powered Cadillac DPi-V.R over the past year.
Specs:
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CARSCOOPS STAFF wrote:Cadillac made headlines a couple of weeks ago when it announced its return to prototype racing for the first time in a decade and a half, and raised a few more eyebrows when Jeff Gordon came out of retirement to drive the new machine.
Now, with testing getting under way, one of the teams fielding the new DPi-V.R has rolled out the chassis in full battle array.
Pictured here is the No. 10 car being fielded by Wayne Taylor Racing. The team has been campaigning a Corvette DP on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship the past couple of seasons. Before that it raced a Daytona Prototype under Pontiac power, which just goes to show how long and how closely it's been affiliated with General Motors for.
This year it's applying its sinister black Konica Minolta livery from the Corvette DP to the new Caddy, and it looks rather stunning as a result. Whether that will help them cross the finish line any faster, though, is another matter.
Fortunately it has lined up top talent to drive the new machinery, including brothers Ricky and Jordan Taylor, Max “The Ax” Angelelli, and four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Gordon. Angelelli won the 2013 Rolex Series title together with Jordan Taylor, and the 24 Hours of Daytona with father (and team principal) Wayne Taylor in 2005.
The Dallara chassis they'll be driving is powered by a naturally aspirated version of the 6.2-liter V8 found in supercharged form in the CTS-V, here tuned to deliver 600 horsepower.
Another two examples of the same will be fielded by Action Express. Testing has already begun on closed tracks from Indianapolis and Kentucky up to New York State and down to North Carolina. The cars make their public debut this week at Daytona in Florida ahead of the Roar Before the 24 test days and the Rolex 24 next month.
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