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      01-15-2018, 08:07 AM   #1
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The light technology on the new BMW M8 GTE

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Forget about the ligths and make the car faster !!!
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That sound eclipses the headlights IMO
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Kinda looks like a riced-out eclipse too


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hope is not the same technology they used on my halogens
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Zero information about technology there!
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2mins of video but learnt nothing about the tech behind it..
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Yellow lights... meh
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Yellow lights... meh
I think that colour is popularly known as "Mountain Dew Green" among reviewers of cheap china LEDs
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All I heard was ?this light is the best? and ?3D printed?

Sick tech bro.

If these lights aren?t fitted with Laser, then eye candy clearly has become a huge factor in modern race ?tech?.
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Forget about the ligths and make the car faster !!!
You have no idea how important the lighting is during night races
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If anyone had bothered watching a night race, they'd know the lights on this are exactly what they need to be.
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Mann that thing looks ducking beautiful!!
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Anyone know the science behind why that particular wavelength of light is used ?
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Forget about the ligths and make the car faster !!!
You have no idea how important the lighting is during night races
I can tell you're not following Daytona 24 Live Timing.
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Forget about the ligths and make the car faster !!!
You have no idea how important the lighting is during night races
I can tell you're not following Daytona 24 Live Timing.
I guess we will know come Sunday. This is a shake down test. We will know the real car come mid summer
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Anyone know the science behind why that particular wavelength of light is used ?
I'm going to guess without any googling.
Sodium D Fraunhofer yellow spectrum has a history in optics and atmosphere - not really sure if this is why this particular color is used. But yellow fog lamps as often used in older Mercedes fog lamps may help offset the blue spectrum that is associated with the water vapor mist of early morning fog and that yellow i think helps with depth of field at night where the human eye loses its perception of distance at night.
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Yellow lights... meh
Yellow is designated for GTLM and GTD classes. White are Prototype/DPi classes. It dates back to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Different colored lights are critical because drivers will flash them when they want to make a pass. In the instance of the Prototypes/DPis they can run upwards of 20mph faster in the straights. As a GTLM car seeing white headlights in your mirror you know they are going to be faster and may be coming on at a greater rate of speed than a competitive GTLM or GTD car with yellow lights in your mirror.

Another fact to know which cars are GTLM vs GTD; pro class cars (GTLM) feature red number backgrounds, windshield banners, mirrors, leader lights, and wing end plates while the pro-am class cars (GTD that features a pro driver and amateur driver) use the color green.
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The M8 has had electrical problem from the start. Let’s hope they sort it all out before the race🤞
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Yellow lights... meh
Yellow is designated for GTLM and GTD classes. White are Prototype/DPi classes. It dates back to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Different colored lights are critical because drivers will flash them when they want to make a pass. In the instance of the Prototypes/DPis they can run upwards of 20mph faster in the straights. As a GTLM car seeing white headlights in your mirror you know they are going to be faster and may be coming on at a greater rate of speed than a competitive GTLM or GTD car with yellow lights in your mirror.

Another fact to know which cars are GTLM vs GTD; pro class cars (GTLM) feature red number backgrounds, windshield banners, mirrors, leader lights, and wing end plates while the pro-am class cars (GTD that features a pro driver and amateur driver) use the color green.
The 3k range also adds an abundance of road detail not seen in other ranges...a classic but modernized and carried forward into today's racing w an LED array. I love my simple ones for daily
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Kinda looks like a riced-out eclipse too


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You're confused, or trolling. Ricer Eclipses look the way they do/did because they tried to emulate the appearance and speed of a real race car such as this.
This car and all of it's features and design are functional and specifically engineered to make it go faster on a track.
M division has not lost it's way quite yet, if they did they wouldn't be involved in and competing aggressively in so many series.

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