Xavier Mestelan, the FIA’s chief technical and safety officer, explains what was changed to make the Garage 56 NASCAR safe for all involved.
—so it didn’t pose a danger to other cars, but also reduced the level of danger in a crash. So much of motorsport safety is about impact attenuation—managing the huge force generated by a crash. Cut nearly 500 pounds out of a car and that’s a lot less inertia to deal with.
Still, it was the car’s performance that Mestalan described as the FIA’s “main issue.” A NASCAR stock car makes around 700 hp while a GTE makes around 500 hp . “The target was to have a NASCAR close to a GT car in terms of lap time, but also in terms of speed and braking capabilities so that we don’t have a chicane in the middle of the track,” Mestelan explained. “Or a car which is very fast, but too slow in the corners, or the opposite, very fast in the corners, but slow in a straight line.
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