Volkswagen LMP1 Racer (render)
End of 2016 and VW has
been forced to slash costs wherever possible, including axing its World
Endurance Championship and World Rally Championship teams.
In any case, if VW does at some point return to
racing, it could take some tips from Brazilian designer Julio Cesar Caetano who
has created this VW LMP1 car of the future.
Looking like a mix between current LMP1 cars and
some of the crazy prototypes from the Vision Gran Turismo project, the finished
product, dubbed the E-12, adopts an outlandish exterior designed to produce
immense amounts of downforce.
There is a small cockpit for the drive, huge wheels,
a low-slung body and two huge exhausts that look like they’ve been lifted
straight off a jet engine. If prototype race cars look anything like this in
the future, we have a lot to look forward to.
