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Red Bull X1 prototype revealed before Gran Turismo 5 debut

Ever wonder what would happen if they threw out the rule book and created a no-holds-barred, we-don't-need-no-freakin'-badges track car? The talented (though time-insensitive) brains behind Polyphony's long-awaited Gran Turismo 5 racing simulator for the Sony Playstation 3 did. Turns out, so did the boffins at Red Bull Racing. The result is the X1 Prototype.

The Red Bull X1 is the brainchild of the team's star designer Adrian Newey, the aerodynamicist who's probably responsible for more checkered flags than any other engineer on the real F1 grid today, with input from the team's star driving talent Sebastian Vettel. We could best describe the result as looking rather similar to the Caparo T1 – that is to say, some freakish cross between an F1 car and an LMP1 racer – but the specs would eclipse both.

Instead of a conventional internal-combustion engine, the X1 packs a (theoretical – remember this exists entirely in the binary) gas turbine driving 1,483 horsepower and 527 lb-ft of torque through a CVT to the rear wheels. Simulated performance stats give it a top speed of 249 miles per hour, while lapping Suzuka in 1:11.540. (For comparison's sake, Vettel's fastest time behind the 2009 F1 car was 1:30.833.) The car's been fully detailed in the latest issue of Car magazine, which has naturally leaked its way onto the interwebs, so check out our first look at the cyber-machine in the gallery below.

Gallery:
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/first...ll-x1/#3481312

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/10/19/r...ore-gt5-debut/

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Too bad we won't get to see GT5 until *Sometime* next year...

1JZsoarer

NEXT YEAR?? wasnt it supposed to come out during the holiday season?

TF109B

Yeah it was sent to Sony 3 days late! How do you get next year from that? They already promised a new release date by the end of this month, which is still October, so potentially it could still be available in November, just pushed up a few weeks. I don't think they'll wait much longer than Thanksgiving or X-mas, Black Friday is the BIGGEST selling day of the year, so my bet is GT5 should be out before or by then, just my hunch.

rkyat

^From what i heard its pushed back to the holiday season.

FMLis300

I'm lost. Is this thing real?

Btw, for the 3 posts above me, I don't want to be the internet police, but there's already a thread about the GT5 release date.

JessePS

The future of F1 now

Blackraven

Holy ****, that's one rock-solid CVT gearbox they have there (to handle 1000+ HP and tons of torque). What kind of CVT is that?!?!?!?

jaseman

Virtual.

E6BAV8R

I wouldn't say it is everything extremely revolutionary; look at airplane engines. While not a CVT, per say, gearbox's are used in applications with as much as +20,000 pounds of thrust.

spwolf

GT5 is possibly pushed only few weeks....

TF109B

F1 cars used to have CVT transmissions. Look it up, Williams used one in the late 90's I think.