So the guys from Hyundai just dropped off the new car and here it is, the Hyundai Genesis Coupe. We have got six weeks to build this car, two races remaining for the formula drift season. This is going to be a busy six weeks.
The whole focus on this project is labeled The Art of Speed, effectively taking a static piece of art and giving it life, giving it movement. I have had a chance now to look at the car and kind of take in some of the lines and it really has some radical lines, leading off the front fender, through the door and then to the rear fender.
We are doing a wide body kit for this car, but it's going to be all out of carbon fiber. Every component on this car is going to be out of dry carbon. Enough of me talking, we need to get to work. Six weeks is radically approaching, I've got to get these guys onto this project.
So here it is, The Art of Speed in its true form, something I am very proud of, something my company is very proud of. Now, let's see it and person here completed, it came out better than I expected. Everything on the front of this car has a function.
Lower-front diffuser actually has under wings built on the under side of the bumper here. The di-planes here to give added down pressure, we can remove one or we can run a dual element like this. We wanted to do something that gave us the track width to put in extra wide tyre front and rear, something that would settle, something that capture the dips and the folds and the creases of the factory body line and just enhance them.
So again, coming into the back of the car here, you'll see this fold, the sweep into this rear fender. It follows that line, that really caught my eye from the front headlights. We bought it all the way through to the back of the car.
Also we have this carbon one piece splitter, pulling from right below the rear end to the rear of the car. These monster tunnels are some 3 feet long, they are going to create a lot of suction without drag.
We have reduced this car by 850 pounds, starting with the doors, weighing at 68 pounds factory, they now weigh 8.6 pounds, and a carbon door, 100% carbon inside and out. These are some of the key features that we've put into the whole design to make this car a real race car.
We have a double door by here, and it has a beam to the outside. It allows the pressures to be hit onto the cage to disperse the energy, throughout the whole chassis.
So by adding the secondary eight of the bar here, plating both the top and bottom of our down bar and our roll cage, we're kind of reduced this angle of compression, if we were to sustain a multiple roll over, safety for me, confidence for the crew. This is what it takes.
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