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Q: Can you tell us a little bit about the new car?
A: The biggest challenge for me this time was to decide what we do next for 2009. Touring car design are for the most part at a mature stage so there is not much you do to improve the current crop of touring cars in the market nowadays. The T2′008 has been an absolutely perfect car and there was not much we could do to improve it, but improve it we did! Of course you can always change things to make the car better for one track or a particular racing condition, but we needed to make a car that would work for every customer, whether using rubber or foam tires, modified/stock/brushless motor, and regular or LiPo batteries. Therefore the 2009 car is considered to be the continued evolution. The touring car market has again changed over the year, with stock drivers needing different ratios. LiPos are also turning the market upside-down and with wide-open rules on sizes and capacities it makes it really difficult for a car designer to adapt the car as you do not know what new batteries will come out tomorrow or the next day. As such the new car will have a more optimized drivetrain with one ratio only, it will have special parts that will enable you to use LiPo or regular batteries, it will have lighter drivetrain parts… and of course there are dozens of small, super-fine improvements we made that may not be readily apparent. The high-competition T2 platform was designed primarily for using NiMH battery packs but with the recent advancement of battery technology, the T2’009 has been optimized and prepared to accommodate the most popular LiPo batteries packs. Special graphite pads are inserted between the top deck and bulkheads which raise the top deck by 2.5mm to allow the fitting of the most frequently used LiPo battery packs. But we all know that small details make all the difference. Oh, and for 2009 the T2 will for the first time look different.
Q. What do you mean it’ll look different?
A: As you may know, in my philosophy I focus mainly on design and performance, so when it comes to the color of the parts I prefer techy-looking stuff: black composites, black carbon fibre, brown HUDY Spring Steel™ parts, and pure silver aluminum. However, we constantly received requests for making our cars in different colors. Using the world’s strongest aluminum 7075 T6, we do concede that the properties that make it so strong also make it extremely difficult to color coat. To be able to color coat the 7075 T6 we had to spend several months on very demanding testing of different procedures, chemical mixes, and coating processes to develop our own technique for color coating. This was really extremely demanding but we gained a lot of experience and pioneered some new processes. While there are several colors that we will never be able to consistently color using 7075 T6, we did end up with a nice range of different colors to choose from. We worked with different random customers to see which colors they preferred best. As such the 2009 car will have parts available in different colors. Which colors, you ask? You will see soon. But my personal favourites were black and violet and of course the natural silver aluminum.
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