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Exciting news from Apollo, the Chinese-backed marque that"s constructing ten insane-looking carbon fibre track cars, inspired by the GT1 racing class of the 1990s and powered by a naturally aspirated V12 good for 769bhp. Apollo"s got a new tech partner on board with serious GT1 pedigree. Apollo has joined forces with HWA AG, the German motorsports outfit that developed the Mercedes CLK-GTR which dominated the FIA GT1 class in the 1990s. HWA was originally a spin-off of AMG itself, richly decorated not just in GT1, but DTM too. Apollo said: "The scope of this [HWA] partnership will focus on development areas such as safety, reliability, powertrain calibration, and thermal dynamics, including computational fluid dynamics work to assist Apollo with its Race to Road" strategy that involves the application of learnings from the race track into the development of the dual purpose nature of the Apollo IE. This partnership gives Apollo access to HWA"s globally renowned engineering expertise, technologies and world-class facilities."
Date written: 12 Jun 2018
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Exciting news from Apollo, the Chinese-backed marque that"s constructing ten insane-looking carbon fibre track cars, inspired by the GT1 racing class of the 1990s and powered by a naturally aspirated V12 good for 769bhp. Apollo"s got a new tech partner on board with serious GT1 pedigree. Apollo has joined forces with HWA AG, the German motorsports outfit that developed the Mercedes CLK-GTR which dominated the FIA GT1 class in the 1990s. HWA was originally a spin-off of AMG itself, richly decorated not just in GT1, but DTM too. Apollo said: "The scope of this [HWA] partnership will focus on development areas such as safety, reliability, powertrain calibration, and thermal dynamics, including computational fluid dynamics work to assist Apollo with its Race to Road" strategy that involves the application of learnings from the race track into the development of the dual purpose nature of the Apollo IE. This partnership gives Apollo access to HWA"s globally renowned engineering expertise, technologies and world-class facilities."
Date written: 12 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12182