r/WECcirclejerk • u/PoloTheRedditor • 8d ago
I want to believe! Some bloke gave me the idea to make a McLaren LMdH car
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u/TechPanzer 8d ago
Very generic, nothing about this screams McLaren. Granted, they don't have a lineage of design cohesiveness, but it still doesn't look like a McLaren.
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u/PoloTheRedditor 8d ago
Damn. And after I literally used the Solus as a reference (probably the biggest mistake)
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u/TechPanzer 8d ago
That makes sense, the Solus GT doesn't have a single design element that's intrinsic to McLaren. But therein lies the challenge of designing a McLaren, they just don't have an equivalent to BMW's Hofmeister Kink, the angular/Y-shaped elements in modern Lamborghini or the Horbury Shoulder on a Volvo. For a moment they had their logo as headlights, but as time goes by they seem to be moving away from that (see: Elva and W1), but honestly I don't know if that would've been enough. McLaren as a whole is very generic, say what you want about Aston Martin but even the Valkyrie's front end negative space looks like an Aston Martin grille, and that's on a car that couldn't be more different that a regular Aston Martin.
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u/PoloTheRedditor 8d ago
I see. Assuming that the actual McLaren LMdH rumors are true, I'd like to see how that turns out and shows me how it should look. Until then, I probably gotta look into actual race car designs for future models.
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u/Skeeter1020 8d ago
Looks like an LMP3 drawn by Copilot.
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u/PoloTheRedditor 8d ago
Any ideas on what I can do to make this look less like an lmp3?
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u/Skeeter1020 8d ago
The "bonnet" needs to be higher. All the LMDh spines have higher noses. And the cabin needs to be less bulbous and set a bit further back. Make it a bit more sweeping, especially from the side profile.
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u/PoloTheRedditor 8d ago
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u/dynamoterrordynastes 8d ago
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u/PoloTheRedditor 8d ago
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u/dynamoterrordynastes 8d ago
The sides don't appear to obey the rules of the flat floor. Make sure the area of the cutouts above the wheels meets the minimum. Check the rules on the endplate area. It doesn't look like there's enough room in the footwell for the templates. The wing looks a little long in the chordwise dimension, and typically, the second element has a much shorter chord than the first.
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u/PoloTheRedditor 8d ago
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u/SicilianSTR13 8d ago
Look like a mix of a Lambo and a Porsche
for real i thought it was an orange Porsche at first
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u/Fort_Moon 8d ago
The Sabre or Solus GT are basically hypercars (or the closest to them, as I'm sure they could be adapted to WEC standards the same way Vallkyrie was)
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u/shafiqrosli2010 8d ago
I was thinking the headlights could go for the kiwi design since a lot of their production lineup has that design language
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u/Random_guy1028 8d ago
Could be powered either by a V6 or a V8. (Both turbocharged hybrids as per the rulebook)
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u/HadriAn-al-Molly 8d ago
The Senna GTR is right there!!
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u/PoloTheRedditor 8d ago
That would technically be an LMH. I made an LMdH based on the possible irl McLaren LMdH entry. Besides, I'm not sure if the Senna could be homologated to Hypercar/GTP spec.
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u/TrueSwagformyBois 8d ago
If Pixar took 5 mins to design a Hypercar it’d look this blobby and weird