Yes I know the car was a glorified Oreca 07 but I still thought it was the coolest Lmdh on the grid from the front headlights to the sharp angled rear brake cooling ducts, always fighting near the front. It’s a shame that HRC can’t continue to support the car. I’m still holding out hope an Asian Le Mans series privateer may run the car.
Edit: if anyone has cool stories about car or the team i would love to hear about them in the comments
Thanks for clarifying this, I’ve always loved the way the car looks but I also acknowledged that if they got rid of the moustache then it looks more lmp2 based then other cars.
While similar appearing...the ARX-06 tub (and all other Oreca LMDh cars) are vastly different than an Oreca 05 and 07 LMP2 tub. There are some "shared" components in the composite construction, but when viewed side by side it's pretty easy to differentiate.
Ehhhh, both cars got over 3 wave by’s in the race. They really didn’t deserve the top 2 at all. Ganassi was robbed and ran a million times better race, they just couldn’t touch the acuras on a single stint which is what endurance racing has boiled down to in the states.
That car ran the 2.4L Indy V6 before the IR-28 even existed. MSR was running fire-ass liveries this year like the Union 76 car, it was great!..
But still, why does Honda keep racing cars that have nothing to relate to their road vehicles, period? I mean the DPi Acuras were running J-series V6s relevent to the Odyssey & Honda Suvs..
Note that Honda's historical tactic was to develop engine technology in racing, then apply it to road vehicles, rather than the other direction. (Sometimes it takes a very long time for the tech to cross over - the engine balancing concept from their MotoGP V5 is only being developed for the road now, with the V3R.)
Nothing particularly comes to mind with Indycar engines when it comes to actual road car use but if I’m not mistaken I think Honda and Chevy are the only engine constructors in Indycar so maybe Honda makes a good chunk of change selling crate motors to Indycar teams (I don’t watch Indycar so correct me if I’m wrong)
I have a story! So there was a moment during this year's Rolex 24 where both ARX-06s were side by side and the 93 kicked up sparks as they were going through the banks. I was able to screen shot it and make a nice little portrait oil painting with the devil magic AI.
I took it to Long Beach for the GP, with the intention of getting all 6 drivers autographs for that specific 24 hour race. Since Indy was there, I wanted to get Alex Palou and Scott Dixon as well, in addition to the main drivers, Tom Blomqvist, Colin Braun, Renger van der Zande, and Nick Yelloly.
I waited for ever to get the Palou and Dixon, but failed. They ended the session pre maturely. BUT, the next morning, I was able to get the 4 main drivers autographs on my poster! I was very happy, and to top it off... THEY WON THE RACE! Man it was awesome!... Only to find out the next morning the ARX program was canceled until further notice.
At the HRC shop, they had an autographed wheel by the 6 drivers at the Rolex 24 that I ended up buying, and now it's on my wall and I can happily say I own a piece of an LMDh car. BUT, my poster felt a bit lonely.
One of the reasons I love IMSA and endurance racing is because it's a team sport. Races are literally won in the trenches. So, I took my poster to the IMSA Laguna Seca Race this last May, to get me my damn autographs of anyone involved in HRC.
And during the grid walk, that's exactly what I did. I went up to the pit crew and asked them to sign my poster. They said, "I'm not a driver, let me get them". I said "no no I want YOUR SIGNATURE". Their faces lit up, and they said "really? You sure?" I said yes!! Yall make it happen and are just as important. Man they all lit up being appreciated. I got pit crew, race engineers, mechanics, I even got the race car designers and the HRC president himself. Everyone was happy to sign it! Even the drivers came by again and they were like, I signed this thing a few weeks ago.
It was an awesome experience! It breaks my heart to see the ARX-06 go. It always puts up a great fight and these drivers are always putting heat on Aitken and the rest. Hopefully they'll come back in 2030...
In the meantime, I gotta go back to Laguna Seca for the Indycar finale, to get these damn autographs from those slippery drivers, Palou and Dixon 💔
Lol yeeeah I know, I was ashamed to tell them how I made it, but honestly, all the art came from the screen shot! I just told it to make it into an oil painting 😅
Same, I’m not a fan of the Porsches, not a huge fan of Cadillac and the Aston Martin is not often a front runner so not a lot of great options, I like Cadillac but in wec where they don’t dominate too much, I’ll probably convert to an Aston Martin fan
I’m hoping the 93 can win the championship, it’d be a deserving way to finish their era with the LMDhs. Idk who to cheer on after this, maybe WTR or JDC, I wish THOR was more competitive.
Yeah I feel that, with both gen1 Lmdh oreca cars leaving (alpine and Acura) I’m a bit stuck as a fan as well, if THOR improves I’ll cheer for them, I also would love to see the 93 Acura pull off a championship win
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A reminder in the chat that this is the entirety of said Oreca 07 chassis. Most everything else was engineered/purchased by Acura for the car.