The Panoz Esperante GTR-1 (also known as Panoz GTR-1 and later the Panoz GTP ) was a race car developed by Panoz Auto Development and Reynard Motorsport for grand tourer endurance racing in 1997. Although named after the Panoz Esperante roadster, the GTR-1 actually bore no mechanical relation to the production Esperante, instead sharing only minor styling points. Only two road-legal GTR-1s were built to meet homologation requirements set forth by the ruling bodies which the racing cars ran under.
66-677: The GTR-1 competed in the FIA GT Championship and 24 Hours of Le Mans in Europe as well as the IMSA GT , United States Road Racing Championship , and American Le Mans Series in North America. From 1996, Reynard Motorsports ' special vehicles division began working with Panoz to develop a grand tourer style racing car meant for the upcoming FIA GT Championship in 1997. Don Panoz , wanting to keep an American-style of design, insisted that
132-681: A world championship with rounds across the world. Cars which fit the GT1 class were eligible to race only in the FIA GT1 World Championship , as the ACO (organizer of the Le Mans 24 Hours ) banned the cars from the event and all of its associated series. This meant that the category that once was eligible to race not only in the FIA GT, Le Mans Series and numerous national championships, was now only able to run in
198-546: A "round robin" system. After the end of the 2004 season, the FIA renamed the classes GT1 and GT2, and somewhat liberalized the GT1 regulations, allowing "supercars". While this was made to accommodate the Saleen S7 , the biggest beneficiary was the purpose-built Maserati MC12 , which led the FIA to impose aerodynamic limitations on the Italian car. However, thanks to a weight penalty system,
264-483: A closed-cockpit Le Mans prototype before the company switched to the new Esperante GT-LM GT2 car. The car was entered in the 1000km of Le Mans and run by the factory JML Team. The car did not finish due to electronics problems. Following this event, the car was purchased by French squad Larbre Compétition and further modified, being renamed the Panoz GTP to reflect its change in class. The modified car would debut at
330-582: A round later at Silverstone Circuit , although it failed to finish. As the three teams continued, Panoz's factory team took the first success at Road Atlanta , winning a GT-class only event. This was followed by the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen , winning the GTS-1 class and finishing 3rd overall, a mere two laps behind the winning prototype. The factory team would follow this with wins in the GT class at Sonoma Raceway and Laguna Seca . Panoz would finish second to Porsche in
396-555: A single GTR-1 which featured full interiors and minor modifications to make it able to be legally registered. This car has been retained by Don Panoz. It now features a slightly smaller 5.3L V8 instead of the full 6.0L V8 race engine, since rules allowed engine sizes to be modified in the racing cars. For 1998, in a time when the first proper battery electric cars like the General Motors EV1 were on streets in California along with
462-463: A support series in some rounds of the main championship. The FIA defines a GT car as "an open or closed automobile which has no more than one door on each side and a minimum of two seats situated one on each side of the longitudinal centre line of the car; these two seats must be crossed by the same transversal plane. This car must be able to be used perfectly legally on the open road, and adapted for racing on circuits or closed courses." All races in
528-887: The Michel Vaillant movie, preparing and racing cars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans . In August 2019, founder Jean-Paul Driot died, aged 68. His two sons, Olivier and Gregory Driot, took over as co-team principals, until former Formula 1 driver Charles Pic bought the team in February 2022. Right from its inception, the French team entered the FIA International Formula 3000 Championship , which they won in 1990 with Érik Comas , 1992 with Olivier Panis and 1994 with Jean-Christophe Boullion . In 13 years, 1989 to 2001 , DAMS won 4 team titles, 3 drivers titles, 21 wins, 19 pole positions and 19 fastest laps, making DAMS one of
594-481: The 2004 12 Hours of Sebring , finishing 9th overall. The car would next appear at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where it dropped out of the race early on. A final appearance was made in the Le Mans Series event at Spa-Francorchamps , taking 14th place. The car would finally be retired for good after the 2004 season. FIA GT Championship The FIA GT Championship was a sports car racing series organized by
660-517: The 2018–19 season , the team switched to Nissan and originally hired Alexander Albon to partner Buemi, however on 26 November 2018 Albon was released from his contract with the team to instead drive in the 2019 Formula One season with the Toro Rosso team . Four days later, the team signed Oliver Rowland , who raced for the team in the 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship . As is traditional with Nissan factory teams, their car numbers are 22 and 23, since
726-583: The 2021 season , the team hired two new drivers Roy Nissany and Marcus Armstrong to replace the Carlin-bound Ticktum and the WEC-bound Gelael. Scoring only one win all year (through Armstrong at Jeddah , the team once again finished 8th in the Teams' Championship, with 65 points. For the 2022 season , the team stayed with Nissany for another season and hired Japanese rookie Ayumu Iwasa . 2022
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#1733086313532792-497: The 24 Hours of Le Mans , but failed to get any competitive results. DAMS (running the Bob Berridge Racing Lola) helped the Michel Vaillant movie crew in the 2002, 24 Hours of Le Mans entering with a Lola B98/10 - Judd as Vaillante and a Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S - Élan as Leader . They then switched their effort to an FIA GT return. In 2003, they tried entering two Nissan 350Z , but once again funds prevented
858-498: The COVID -impaced 2019–20 season, ending up second in Teams' Championship instead of fourth. After two disappointing seasons in a row with a 10th place in the 2020–21 season and a 9th position in the 2021–22 season , Nismo decided to part ways with DAMS and operate the team on their own. Starting from 1997, Driot's team diversified into sports car racing , entering the FIA GT Championship in partnership with Panoz . Splitting up in
924-700: The International Formula 3000 Championship . They stayed in F3000 until 2001 . DAMS were one of many French teams that were part of the Elf young driver sponsorship program. Aside from F3000, DAMS planned to join the F1 World Championship in 1996 , with a car (the GD-01 ) developed by Reynard , but lack of funds prevented the team from advancing. DAMS enter in sports car racing since 1997 until 2002 where it helped
990-505: The Porsche 911 GT1 , earning points in seven of ten rounds with best results of third at Hockenheimring and Dijon-Prenois . This success earned DAMS 5th in the teams championship. David Price Racing tested the GTR-1 Q9 throughout the season, making its first competition appearance at the test days for the 24 Hours of Le Mans . The car was only able to achieve the 39th fastest time, well behind
1056-570: The Renault R30 chassis. D'Ambrosio won the sprint race at Monaco , but his form thereafter was disappointing and he was rested for one of the rounds in favour of Romain Grosjean , another driver with Renault F1 links. Grosjean later got the opportunity to move into the team full-time when Tung, yet to score a point after 12 races, sustained a broken vertebra in a racing accident. D'Ambrosio, Grosjean and Tung finished 12th, 14th and 28th respectively in
1122-694: The Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) at the behest of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship was mostly concentrated in Europe , but throughout the years has visited other continents including Asia and South America . At the end of 2009, the championship was replaced by the FIA GT1 World Championship , which morphed into the FIA GT Series for 2013. FIA currently defines several categories of GT cars with
1188-533: The Toyota GT-One . Therefore, Panoz realized he would no longer be able to compete against such cars with the Esperante GTR-1, and it was decided that Panoz would move to the Le Mans prototype class. This was also helped by the fact that the FIA GT Championship decided to abandon the GT1 class, leaving the Esperante GTR-1 unable to compete in Europe. Therefore, while development of the new LMP-1 Roadster-S
1254-578: The World Endurance Championship and was replaced by Pierre Gasly . The following season saw the team's final season with Renault in Formula E fail to see any of their drivers win a single race in the championship. Their highest finish was 2nd for Buemi in Marrakesh . The team could only finish fifth in the constructors' championship. At the end of the season, Nicolas Prost left the team. For
1320-741: The 2003 and 2004 seasons, DAMS took part in the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup , which they won that same year with Argentinian José María López . In 2005 the team entered the World Series by Renault . Since 2005, DAMS joined the GP2 Series but also the A1 Grand Prix where it serviced three teams. Driot is one of the owners of the A1 Team France . DAMS also managed A1 Team Switzerland , A1 Team Mexico and later A1 Team South Africa in
1386-614: The 2011 season was the last time GT1 cars contested in international motorsport. The 2012 FIA GT1 season was contested with GT3 cars (yet retaining GT1 in series' title), but the series was finally cancelled after the year had concluded, being replaced by the FIA GT Series. In 2010 the GT2 class was planned to have a separate championship having rounds held only in Europe , known as the FIA GT2 European Championship, but this series
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#17330863135321452-556: The A1 Grand Prix championships. With A1 Team France, DAMS was the first winner of the series winning 13 of the 22 races including in the 2005–06 season. For the 2007–08 season, A1 Team France and South Africa collaborated closely to finalize the car like it was previously done with A1 Team Switzerland. The team joined the new Formula E championship in 2014 under the name e.dams , with collaboration from Alain Prost . Sébastien Buemi
1518-494: The Esperante GTR-1 would form the basis for the LMP-1 Roadster-S, using the same front engine layout and large nose. It is thus seen that the LMP-1 Roadster-S is an Esperante GTR-1 with its roof taken off, the cars actually do share the same chassis according to a short documentary snippet on YouTube presented by Don Panoz (2021). In 2003, Panoz decided to resurrect chassis #003 (formerly run by David Price Racing ) to run as
1584-532: The FIA GT Championship were of endurance type , a full race distance lasting a minimum of 500 km or a maximum of three hours, with the exception of the Spa 24 Hours , Istanbul 2 hours and the exhibition Mil Milhas Brasileiras , which is run over a thousand miles (1609 km) and was planned to be a round of the championship in 2007. However, with the release of the 2007 FIA GT Championship schedule and rules,
1650-401: The FIA GT series becomes more of a sprint race event, with all races being a maximum of 2 hours with the exception of the Spa 24 Hours . In 1997, due to increasing interest from manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz , Porsche and Panoz , the FIA took over control of the expanding BPR Global GT Series , standardizing the race-length at 500 km instead of the usual four hours, liberalizing
1716-800: The French team from developing the Japanese car. In 2004, they teamed with Lamborghini and entered two Murciélago R-GT cars in the final rounds of the FIA GT Championship. Several drivers have enjoyed success during and after their time with DAMS, including Formula One Grand Prix winners Olivier Panis and Pierre Gasly , 24 Hours of Le Mans winners Allan McNish , Sébastien Bourdais , Kazuki Nakajima , Sébastien Buemi , Neel Jani , Kamui Kobayashi and José María López , as well as multiple Formula One drivers. Success has also been achieved by former drivers in US open wheel racing : Bourdais winning four consecutive Champ Car World Series title, and Marcus Ericsson winning
1782-523: The GP2 championship and raced in the last Formula One Grand Prix of the season with Williams . Following this he won a full-time race seat with the team for 2008 and was retained for the 2009 season. In 2008, TDP driver Kamui Kobayashi replaced Nakajima at DAMS GP2 and became the Toyota Racing test driver. Kobayashi stayed on in 2009, and was partnered by Jérôme d'Ambrosio for these two years. Neither driver
1848-558: The Lotus GP banner. The team wrapped up both the 2014 Drivers' and Teams' Championships, with Jolyon Palmer winning the former. DAMS went into the 2015 season with Red Bull Junior Team driver Pierre Gasly and 2014 GP3 champion Alex Lynn as their driver lineup. The team struggled in the Bahrain feature race with Gasly being involved in a fourth lap collision with Arthur Pic , Raffaele Marciello and Norman Nato and Lynn falling down
1914-507: The Q9 gone, the Panoz factory team concentrated on Le Mans with their own two cars. Although one car failed to finish, the second entry managed to take a 7th place overall finish a mere 16 laps behind the overall winning Porsche . Although the Esperante GTR-1 had major success in 1998, Panoz was aware that grand touring racing cars were becoming highly exotic machines with no road car similarities, such as
1980-549: The United States. French squad DAMS would use two in Europe along with British team David Price Racing who received the final two cars. The cars debuted at the 1997 12 Hours of Sebring , but failed to finish after 108 laps. Meanwhile, David Price's first Esperante GTR-1 would debut at Hockenheimring for the FIA GT Championship , and managed to finish 11th overall behind the McLaren and Porsche competitors. DAMS' car debuted
2046-498: The batteries, a regenerative braking system would be used, the same electric motor now being used to generate electricity. This would reduce the wastage of energy normally emitted as heat from the brakes. By using less fuel, the car would thus be able to make fewer pit stops in endurance races, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans , and thus would be able to spend more time on the track and achieve a farther distance. Zytek's oil-cooled, permanent magnet, Brushless DC electric motor /generator
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2112-407: The car be based on his Esperante sports car in some way. Due to this, the Esperante GTR-1 became unique in comparison to its Mercedes-Benz , Lotus , Porsche , and McLaren counterparts in that, like the production Esperante, the engine was located in front of the cockpit. Although locating the engine behind the front axle gave the car a balanced mid-engine layout, having the engine in front gave
2178-401: The car received a unique purple paint job with large yellow lightning bolts. The idea was that the car would be able to gain better fuel mileage by using an electric motor that would help drive the rear wheels during acceleration, thus requiring less power from the gasoline engine and consuming less fuel. The car would of course require a set of batteries to power the electric motor. To recharge
2244-451: The car unusual proportions, including a large nose and a cockpit placed as far back in the body. The unusual look, including a large bulging intake in the center of the nose, earned the car the nickname " Batmobile " due to its resemblance to the car used by the comic book hero. Following the initial 1997 season, the bodywork was modified in 1998 by lengthening the front and rear bodywork for increased downforce and handling capabilities. For
2310-450: The constructors championship that season. In Europe however, the Esperante GTR-1 suffered from a lack of pace against much better funded factory efforts which were mostly lacking in North America. DAMS was unable to score any points in the championship, while David Price finished third in American soil at Sebring in one of the final rounds of the FIA GT season, earning the team 6th place in
2376-512: The constructors' championship and took 5 wins during the season (4 for Albon and 1 for Latifi). The team's 2018 lineup will race together for the first time in three years in the 2022 Formula One World Championship for the Williams team. For the 2019 season , the team hired Sérgio Sette Câmara to replace Albon, who was promoted to Formula 1 with Toro Rosso for 2019 . They won the Teams' Championship with 418 points, and 6 wins (5 for Latifi, who
2442-483: The cost escalation, moved down to the GT2 class. Mercedes completely dominated the new category and the other manufacturers pulled out after the end of the 1998 season. This left Chrysler's Viper to become the dominating car in the series, with the aging Porsche 993 GT2 and the Lister Storm providing a certain degree of competition. However, there was no lower inexpensive category for amateur drivers, and this led to
2508-645: The creation of the N-GT class in 2000. While the manufacturer field in the main class blossomed, the new category became swamped with Porsches and Ferraris, but lower running costs meant both classes enjoyed a balanced number of entries. In order to boost the championship's status, the SRO added the 24 Hours of Spa , previously a touring car race , to the calendar, where it became the series' most important race. The FIA also banned official manufacturer involvement, although certain teams had preferential treatment, with Porsche establishing
2574-539: The drivers' championship, whilst DAMS finished sixth position in the teams' championship. Grosjean remained with the team for 2011, with Norwegian rookie Pål Varhaug replacing D'Ambrosio, who graduated to F1 with the Virgin Racing team. DAMS retained its links with Renault, although these were somewhat diluted by the F1 team's new sponsorship deal with Lotus Cars , which also backed the rival ART team in GP2. Grosjean dominated
2640-577: The engine, Panoz attempted to keep the American theme by using a Ford V8 engine similar to the one used in his Esperante. Instead of the standard 32-valve DOHC 4.6L V8 , Panoz turned to Roush Racing of NASCAR to construct a 6.0L V8 based on the Ford engine. Panoz's Élan Power Products would maintain the V8 engines and continue their development. In order to meet homologation requirements wherein race cars had to be based on road legal production cars, Panoz built
2706-452: The fight for the championship is protected from more domineering cars. The level of competition remains tight, with gentlemen drivers managing to fight for the wins with professional drivers, some of them with Formula One experience. Following the 2009 season, the SRO announced that the FIA GT Championship's two categories, GT1 and GT2, would break off into separate series. The GT1 category became
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2772-409: The first Toyota Prius Hybrids, and about a decade before Formula one and Le Mans racing started considering Hybrids, Panoz reached an agreement with English firm Zytek to develop a hybrid electric motor for the Esperante GTR-1. The Q9 GTR-1 Hybrid, nicknamed "Sparky", was constructed by Panoz, Reynard, and Zytek and developed by David Price Racing for the 1998 season. In honor of its electric power,
2838-530: The following year, DAMS ran a Lola B98/10 with a Judd engine in the SportsRacing World Cup , winning four races, as well as participating in the American Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans . In 2000 and 2001, DAMS associated themselves with General Motors , preparing the works Cadillac Northstar LMP prototypes for the American Le Mans Series , FIA Sportscar Championship and
2904-558: The most successful Formula 3000 teams with Super Nova Racing and Arden International . The team competed in the GP2 Series since its beginning in 2005 , winning races with drivers José María López and Nicolas Lapierre . DAMS was associated with the Toyota Drivers Program (TDP) from 2006 to 2009, and ran their drivers in the GP2 Series. In 2006, it was Franck Perera and then Kazuki Nakajima in 2007, who finished 5th in
2970-489: The new United States Road Racing Championship . DAMS would continue in FIA GT, while David Price would drop out in an attempt to develop the Esperante GTR-1 Q9 for the 24 Hours of Le Mans . In USSRC, the factory Panoz team fought hard with Porsche in the GT class, winning the class in three of the five events in the season but losing to Porsche in the manufacturers championship by a mere three points, although it won
3036-560: The new World Championship. A few GT1 were entered in the LMGT1 class at the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans . The GT1 cars continued to race in the World Championship in 2010 and 2011, but in 2012 the series switched exclusively to GT3 machinery due to shrinking car counts and the fact that most of the cars were ageing and no one was willing to build new models. This meant that the San Luis round of
3102-536: The numbers 2 and 3 are pronounced "ni" and "san" in Japanese. Under the Nissan banner, the team couldn't win any championship. Their first powertrain named Nissan IM01 proved to be controversial as e.dams were the only team to use a dual-motor setup, having scored six poles with this powertrain. This was eventually outlawed in technical regulations for the 2019–20 season . Despite being forced by rules to significantly change their powertrain design, Nissan e.dams improved in
3168-558: The order after driving into the back of Alexander Rossi and damaging his front wing. Both drivers finished outside the points in the following day's sprint race. The team had an improved weekend in Barcelona , with Lynn taking his first GP2 victory in the sprint race and Gasly joining him on the podium in third. In 2018, the team fielded Nicholas Latifi and Alexander Albon in the FIA Formula 2 Championship. The team secured third place in
3234-574: The past four seasons. Richard Westbrook of Prospeed Competition won the GT2 Drivers' Championship. Chris Niarchos won the Citation Cup while Ferrari won the returning Manufacturers' Championship for the GT2 category. DAMS DAMS (formerly Driot-Arnoux Motorsport , currently Driot Associés Motor Sport ; racing as DAMS Lucas Oil for sponsorship reasons) is an auto racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsport . DAMS
3300-476: The season strongly, winning an unprecedented three races in a row in Bahrain , and later prevailed over closest rival Luiz Razia to win the championship, whilst Nasr finished on the podium four times to finish tenth in the championship, the second-highest rookie behind James Calado . Between them, Valsecchi and Nasr scored enough points to win DAMS's first GP2 Teams' Championship, six points ahead of ART, competing under
3366-454: The team's championship. For the 24 Hours of Le Mans , three GTR-1s were entered by David Price and DAMS. None of the cars was able to finish, mostly due to engine difficulties. DAMS car burned, destroying chassis #005 and requiring it to be replaced. For 1998, with the evolved Esperante GTR-1 bodywork, the program was expanded. The factory Panoz team would race not only in IMSA GT but also in
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#17330863135323432-530: The teams championship. In IMSA, Panoz was more dominant as they won seven of the eight races, including taking an overall win at the rain drenched Sebring Fall Festival in October. This earned them the constructors and teams championship for the season. In Europe, DAMS also proved more powerful. Although incapable of competing with the Mercedes-Benz CLK LM juggernaut, it was able to compete well against
3498-435: The technical regulations and leaving commercial exploitation in the hands of one of BPR's founders, Stéphane Ratel, who managed to get TV support from the pan-European TV station Eurosport . The new manufacturers built "homologation specials", racing-bred cars that took full advantage of the new rules, to build quasi-prototypes with very limited production runs of 25 cars. Chrysler , Lister and Marcos, not wanting to accompany
3564-423: The top two specifications being GT1, or Grand Touring Cars , and GT2, or Series Grand Touring Cars . Each category has an annual driver champion, team champion, and manufacturer champion. Both categories are based on production road car designs, which must be produced in a minimum quantity of 25 examples to qualify. Both types may undergo significant modifications from the road car they are based on, but GT1 allows
3630-471: The two Panoz factory entries. It was found that the car was too overweight and slowed down by the addition of the batteries necessary to run the hybrid system. Thus plans for competing at Le Mans were abandoned. The car would make one more appearance later on in the initial Petit Le Mans , part of the IMSA schedule. The car managed to finish 12th overall. After this, the Q9 project was cancelled. Meanwhile, with
3696-707: The use of exotic materials, better aerodynamics , larger brakes , wider tyres and larger engine admission restrictors. For the 2006 season, the FIA created a new class called GT3. GT3 cars are even closer to their production counterparts and are very simply racetrack prepared with the essentials (rollcages for safety, stripped interiors, race spec fuel tanks, etc.). All cars are performance balanced together via different weights, restrictors, tyre pressures etc. Prestigious motorsports makes such as Aston Martin , Chevrolet , Dodge , Lamborghini , Ascari and Maserati take part in FIA GT3 European Championship ,
3762-684: The year, winning both the Asian and main series championships. DAMS also won the Asian teams' title, but Varhaug's failure to score points in the main series saw the team beaten to the championship by Addax . For the 2012 season , Grosjean moved to the Lotus (formerly Renault) Formula One team, and Varhaug switched to the Auto GP World Series ; they were replaced by series veteran Davide Valsecchi and reigning British F3 champion Felipe Nasr . Valsecchi began
3828-471: Was able to put together a consistent run of form in the main GP2 Series championships, but Kobayashi did win the 2008–09 Asian championship with the team. D'Ambrosio remained with the team for 2010 , and was paired with Ho-Pin Tung , who replaced the Sauber -bound Kobayashi. As part of an agreement with the Renault Formula One team, both were nominated as Renault F1 test drivers, and the DAMS GP2 cars were liveried in an identical yellow-and-black scheme to
3894-549: Was also planned to be in the series, but this was quickly folded as the interest level wasn't high). However, this series is not an FIA-sanctioned championship. In 2012 the series abandoned the GT4 class and moved to GT3 exclusively. As of the end of the 2009 season , Vitaphone Racing Team have won their fifth consecutive Teams' Championship in the GT1 category, while AF Corse earned their fourth consecutive title. Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini , both driving for Vitaphone, earned their third Drivers' Championship titles in
3960-433: Was cancelled. A lone GT2 event was held in 2010 at the Spa 24 Hours with the winners being awarded the FIA GT2 European Cup. This was the last time GT2-spec cars contested in SRO-sanctioned series. A new Blancpain Endurance Series was announced for 2011 which re-established some of the endurance format of the former FIA GT Championship, although this series only utilised the FIA's GT3, GT4, and Supersports categories (GT2
4026-439: Was founded in 1988 by Jean-Paul Driot and Formula One driver René Arnoux . In 2022 it was bought by ex-F1 driver Charles Pic . It is headquartered near Le Mans , only 2 km from the Bugatti Circuit . DAMS has enjoyed success in both drivers and team championships in multiple formula series across the world, and has helped launch the careers of several high profile drivers. The year after its foundation, DAMS joined
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#17330863135324092-563: Was powered by a VARTA 300-volt, 260-cell nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery pack. It provided on demand 30 percent or 195 hp of the approximately 650 horsepower produced by the hybrid power unit. The battery—composed of a series of cells—is from Germany's Varta Co. and weighs only 220 pounds; the Zytec motor, another 35. Pretty light for a unit that produces 150 hp. A total of six Esperante GTR-1s were built by Panoz, Ford and Reynard, with them being split amongst three teams. Panoz would retain two cars for their own factory effort in
4158-451: Was promoted to Formula 1 for 2020 to drive for Williams , and 2 for Sette Câmara, who later moved on to Formula E to drive for the GEOX Dragon team. For the 2020 season , the team hired Sean Gelael and Dan Ticktum to race for them. After a disappointing season, the team slumped to 8th in the Teams' Championship, accumulating a total of 115.5 points, with Ticktum scoring both of their wins (at Spielberg , and at Silverstone .) For
4224-424: Was runner-up in the inaugural season and champion in 2015–16, having claimed 8 wins and 13 podiums in 23 races. Nicolas Prost finished sixth and third respectively, claiming three wins. In the 2016–17 season , the team clinched their third straight constructors' title but Buemi lost the title to Lucas di Grassi at the final round in Montreal . Buemi also had to miss the New York City rounds due to commitments in
4290-432: Was seen as an improvement for DAMS, as they finished 6th in the Teams' Championship. They scored a total of 2 wins (both scored by Iwasa), and 161 points (141 for Iwasa, who finished 5th in the Drivers' Championship; and 20 for Nissany, who finished 19th.) For the 2023 season , the team stuck with Iwasa for his second year in the category, and hired Monegasque rookie Arthur Leclerc from Prema's Formula 3 team. In
4356-405: Was underway, Panoz pushed on with the GTR-1 in the new American Le Mans Series . Two GTR-1s would run at Sebring, both failing to finish. At the next race at Road Atlanta , the new LMP-1 debuted and a GTR-1 was also run to give the team something to fall back on. It failed to finish as well. For the next round, a second LMP-1 was completed, and so the GTR-1 was retired completely. The design of
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