Comments on: Isotta Fraschini Duqueine completes first WEC Hypercar test at Estoril | WEC

By: asd

asd — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:50:29 +0000

This car looks quite similar and is as ugly as the Toyotas. I hope this team folds quickly.
One of the appeals of sports prototypes used to be great looking cars (especially from the mid 80s until the early 00s), but in the last decade they have been too ugly to watch. Most hypercars have looked quite good (Porsches, Cadillacs, Ferraris), but I have doubts if that persists.

By: Bullfrog

Bullfrog — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:56:18 +0000

In reply to MichaelN. What's Isotta Fraschini's look and feel anyway?! I'd hoped we'd seen the last of the LMP2 freightliner look, and Italian design would have created something more elegant, but at least it'll actually be distinctive now, plenty of their racing will be in the dark, and it's nothing to do with Colin Kolles. Wish them well.

By: MichaelN

MichaelN — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 11:52:43 +0000

It's a bit disappointing that despite the performance caps and the BoP, both of which should have enabled manufacturers to make unique designs reflective of their company's look and feel, all Hypercars are starting to converge on the same look. Once Peugeot introduces their new design, rumoured to be pretty much a new car, there won't be anything all that special left on the Hypercar grid. The racing being exciting will make up for that, but it's still not quite the story the FIA/ACO sold when they introduced the Hypercar class.