Cadillac’s replacement for the CTS-V racing car is that the all-new ATS-V.R, however rather than targeting North America’s Pirelli World Challenge with its latest racer Cadillac has additional international ambitions. In line with this focus, the ATS-V.R has been made to fulfill FIA GT3 specifications.
The ATS-V.R is predicated on the 2016 Cadillac ATS-V car debuting on aboard an ATS-V sedan at the 2014 Los Angeles automobile Show, and even shares the road car’s twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter V-6, albeit a sturdier unit made for motorsport. once unrestricted, the engine provides the maximum amount as 600 power unit and 520 pound-feet of force. The ATS-V road automobile is anticipated to possess 450 H.P. on tap.
Specific technical upgrades for the racing car embody larger, twin BorgWarner turbochargers; exaggerated capability intercoolers; competition engine management and a right away, side-exiting exhaust. The automobile additionally gets a rear transaxle case, giving it a near-ideal weight distribution of forty nine percent front, fifty one percent rear (the dry weight of the automobile is 2,900 lbs). The case could be a consecutive unit from Xtrac and comes with paddle shifters.
The ATS-V shell has been fully stripped and fitted with an eight-point welded roll cage similarly as carbon fiber replacements for the hood, trunklid, fenders and doors. New aero parts, additionally made up of carbon fiber, embody the aspect skirts, front splitter, connective tissue and dive planes, rear diffuser and rear bumper cowl.
As mentioned, the exhaust is currently routed direct from the turbos to the perimeters of the automobile, with no mufflers. The suspension is totally adjustable and also the wheels are light-weight aluminum items from BBS. within these sit huge Brembo brake calipers and discs.
Since its beginning in 2004, Cadillac sport has concentrated twenty six wins, ninety one stump finishes (including wins) and twenty two pole positions with its previous CTS-V sedan and CTS-V car race cars. It’s additionally a five-time winner of the Manufacturers’ Championship within the Pirelli World Challenge, as well as the series’ past 3 seasons, similarly as in 2005 and 2007, and variety of Cadillac sport drivers have managed to secure titles.
”The V-Series is that the highest expression of Cadillac’s rising product substance,” chief of Cadillac, Johan Diamond State Nysschen told during a statement, he added that “Elevating and increasing the V-Series is that the next logical step in Cadillac’s growth, as well as this new racing car developed in GT3-specification, facultative us to pursue sport on a additional international scale.”
The Cadillac ATS-V.R is currently close to start an extensive testing program before the beginning of the 2015 motorsport season.
