by rupert » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:39 pm
I've now had a chance to consult my book... how sad!
The 1994 car was surprisingly standard...only the wings enlarged and the front spoiler modified. The rear had a large central section that could be removed for easy engine access. It ran a 2 valve per cylinder engine and had dry sump, twin Garratt turbos with 31.1 restrictors, producing 430hp weighing in at 1180kg. Luc Galmard was one of the drivers (a local hairdresser). The car was eventually sold to the Japanese SiFo team and is apparently still out there in Japan.
The followong year Legeay produced the car on the home page, a definite evolution of the first with a lighter chassis and panels, a bigger wing, and flat bottom. Wing mirrors also higher up the A-post. A huge NACA duct in the roof the feed cool air to the engine. The dry sump was abandoned in favour of a comparmentalised sump and the weight 1050kg. Power quoted in my book at 430hp. After the failure at Le Mans where Galmard was again a driver, it first raced at the BPR Paris 1000km and broke a gearbox. Legeay meanwhile went bankrupt.
The book doesn't say if the engine was a 24V like the Venturi cars had been running at Le Mans.
You can wake up now.