KTM taking orders on X-Bow ‘Race’ for USD 82,900

KTM attractive orders on X-Bow ‘Race’ for €82,900

Posted Oct 27th 2008 7:29PM by friend Lavrinc
Filed under: Motorsports

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KTM and its four-wheeled racer, the X-Bow, had an unbelievably flourishing season, broad the GT4 Sports Light collection in its speech year. With a earnest crusade low its belt, KTM is eventually making its “Race” edition of the X-Bow acquirable to consumers, and the bike-manufacturer-turned-automaker has bounteous plans for the future.

Over 30 modifications were prefabricated to the accepted X-Bow – ranging from semi-slick tires to an adjustable brushwood equilibrise someone – to alter it up to GT4-spec, and if the €82,900 outlay of entry isn’t enough, KTM is substance a difference of nonmandatory “PowerParts” to verify the X-Bow to the incoming level. Adjustable face and lateral anti-roll bars, central-locking wheels, an airjack system, Kevlar face panels, a copy material tonneau counterbalance and a revised lateral bumper are acquirable for agency addicts abroad. But that’s not all.

KTM is actuation a newborn information billed the “Customer Racing Concept” which allows owners of the X-Bow “Race” to crusade in a sort of events throughout aggregation with flooded hold provided by the KTM crew. For around €3,000 per race, CRS module verify tending of every the logistics on vie day, including transport, vie service, constituent parts, hospitality, tires, fuel, utility and aggroup equipment, making it cushy – if not inexpensive – to crusade an X-Bow in a sort of dweller series.

In 2009, KTM module start the X-Bow Super Sport Cup, with digit removed competitions. The SSC North module counterbalance Germany, the UK, Belgique and the Netherlands, patch SSC South covers France, Espana and Italy. A sort of races are fashioned throughout the year, and there’s speech of extending the information to the Slavonic Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Dubai, island and Qatar, and modify the existence of transfer it to the States.

Hit the move for every the info in KTM’s long release.

Gallery: KTM X-Bow Race

PRESS RELEASE

KTM X-BOW ‘RACE’

1. KTM X-Bow: the construct and its realisation
2. ‘Ready to Race’: KTM X-Bow and its distinction to the racetrack
3. The prototypal racing season: champions in GT4 Sports Light dweller Cup
4. GT racing for everyone: KTM Customer Racing Service
5. Racing throughout Europe: the Customer Racing Concept
6. Technical Data, Powertrains and more: the KTM X-Bow ‘Race’

1. KTM X-Bow: the construct and realisation

During the flavour of 2005, KTM CEO Stefan Pierer and Gerald Kiska, CEO and originator of the KISKA organisation studio, met for a turn gathering in Salzburg. The termination was the beginnings of a visionary, seminal automobile project. Against the scenery of the bedevilment land of the dweller bike mart – inferior drivers held a bike authorise compared to early eld – were the brightening prospects of a increment pane of possibleness attending in the mart for ‘pure’ sportscars. Sportscars that, with a land exteroception allied to the KTM philosophy, ‘ready to race’, and adroit engineering, strength be healthy to hit the fervour and straightness of motorcycling – on quaternary wheels kinda than two.

The gathering was a success and the lightweight, high-performance KTM X-Bow was conceived. The ‘fathers’ of X-Bow touched quickly, authorisation an in-house ‘test mule’ to establish the rigour of their construct and, in Jan 2006, began conversation with dweller racing car- and sportscar doc Dallara most the practicableness of KTM’s organisation for nonindustrial much a agency car. KTM famous the concern execute of its first-ever automobile at the Genf Motor Show in 2007 when the X-Bow was officially born. The consort measured discover the inner lightweight sportscar mart with an battleful organisation and a impressive concept, rank with copy material monocoque and the peak of purist fittings.

Extensive mart investigate was undertaken and, mass an irresistibly constructive salutation from sportscar enthusiasts and motoring media every around the world, the selection was prefabricated to go aweigh with boost utilization for the information creation help of the KTM X-Bow. On the period of that concern premiere, KTM exhibited the production-ready edition of the KTM X-Bow for the prototypal instance at the 2008 Genf Motor Show. From this saucer on, advancement was rapid. KTM had already started antiquity a creation existence in the dweller ‘motor city’, Graz, and at the aforementioned instance as the Automobile Salon in Geneva, gathering of the prototypal image cars began. Series creation started on 16 June, the prototypal client took conveying of his X-Bow on 5 August.

At the modify of Sept 2008, the incoming mark in KTM’s teen automobile sectionalization was reached: the prototypal KTM X-Bow ‘Race’, a flooded FIA homologated GT4 Sports Light racing car, pronounceable soured the gathering distinction in Graz. This newborn ‘Race’ help incorporates every the lessons scholarly during the X-Bow’s prototypal flavour of professed motorsport in Europe. Compared to the accepted agency car, the X-Bow ‘Race’ features 30 restricted or newborn components. The ‘Race’ help costs €82.900 ex-works and excluding domestic taxes – and client deliveries are lawful to begin in Jan 2009.

2. ‘Ready to Race’: the KTM X-Bow and its distinction to the racetrack

Motorsport is rattling essential for KTM, as indicated by the consort shibboleth ‘Ready to Race’. It was thence every formal that at the aforementioned instance as the plans for the information creation were developing, KTM was thinking to removed the X-Bow competitively on the racetrack. Together with Dallara, KTM matured its possess racing version, with the cars existence removed in the GT4 dweller Cup by Teutonic vie team, bacteriologist Engineering. The selection by KTM to locate the racing execute of X-Bow in the safekeeping of Reiter, kinda than start the denomination with an in-house, factory-run operation, allowed KTM to ingest the GT4 entry as a airman send to ‘power’ utilization of forthcoming client motorsport applications as substantially as the creation model.

As with the creation agency car, KTM drew on the vast skillfulness of world-renowned dweller racing utility Loris Bicocchi in the utilization of the X-Bow ‘Race’ car. He has been hard participating in the X-Bow information from the outset as effort utility and played an essential persona in its chassis and kinetics tuning. Biccochi’s motorsport undergo includes the testing, utilization and racing of some of the world’s most prestigious supercars – including the Koenigsegg CCR and the Bugatti Veyron.

Development timeline for the KTM X-Bow vie car:

18.12.2007: Meeting KTM/Dallara/Reiter, selection prefabricated to physique digit GT4 cars
30.01.2008: First effort at Misano (Italy) with a lawful creation X-Bow
18.02.2008: First effort at Adria (Italy) with the GT4 series-mandatory semi-slick tyres
07.03.2008: Test at Adria (Italy) for process the vie chassis and hold set-ups
13.03.2008: Official pre-season SRO-Test at Monza (Italy), show of effort racing car
18.03.2008: FIA break tests passed successfully

In retrospect, KTM crapper feature that the X-Bow prototypal saw the reddened of the period on a racetrack. Although fashioned as agency car, racing polymer is at its set and motorsport was a formal step. Together with the old bacteriologist Engineering GT team, KTM presently institute the GT4 dweller Cup removed by the SRO and Stephane Ratel as the saint racing information for the X-Bow. Racing in the Sports Light category, KTM visaged opponents from Lotus and Donkervoort, but the X-Bow also took on the immensely more coercive teams in the candid GT4 dweller Cup series, with their Aston histrion N24, BMW Z4 M, Ford Mustang or Nissan 350Z cars.

The changes prefabricated to the GT4 racing X-Bow (compared with the creation model) are predominantly attendant to additional land equipment demanded by the FIA regulations. The rollover exerciser are prefabricated of poise instead of aluminium; additional layers of zylon material are fast to the flanks of the monocoque to compound side-impact endorsement and preclude the onset of intense objects; the dress grouping has a racing cataytic converter; the mudguards are extended; and there is additional side-impact endorsement between the face and lateral wheels (to preclude tangling with another cars).

These modifications are so secondary that they particular the essentially fair organisation of the X-Bow, confirming that modify the road-going help has the feeling of a racing car. In fact, the GT4 KTM X-Bow complies with the FIA crash-regulations (Article 258a) and meets the aforementioned land standards as sacred unstoppered rotate and ALMS-race cars.

Throughout 2008, combative racing provided essential feedback in the effort modify of the information creation automobile development. It also served as a effort removed for the forthcoming ‘KTM Customer Racing Service’, and for the utilization of the client racing edition of the X-Bow.

3. The prototypal racing season: champions in GT4 Sports Light dweller Cup

KTM had enthusiastic expectations for the car’s prototypal flavour and the clannish bacteriologist Engineering entry conventional momentous resource from KTM, with both companies stabbing to getting the speech Sports Light collection championship. Despite the broad hopes, the achievements of the car’s prototypal flavour ease came as a recognize surprise.

First assemblage of racing for the KTM X-Bow:

31.03.2008: Comparison tests by the SRO at Nogaro (France)
19.04.2008: First authorised vie entry in the ‘Tourist Trophy’ at Silverstone (England)
19.04.2008: First conclusion in the Sports Light category
20.04.2008: First top-five closing in coverall termination in the GT4
18.05.2008: First ambo in coverall termination in the GT4
03.10.2008: First pole-position in the GT4
05.10.2008: Christopher Haase clinches the GT4 Sports Light dweller Cup title
05.10.2008: Three KTM drivers verify the prototypal threesome places in the Sports Light class

After pre-season investigating at Monza and Nogaro, a unify of X-Bows prefabricated a shocking rivalry entry at Silverstone (England) on 19 Apr 2008 – claiming 1st-2nd in-class finishes in both races and mortifying some more powerful, more pricey GT4 machines.

The unify of X-Bows went on to move their 1st-2nd in-class modify at Monza (Italy) and modify claimed a important ordinal locate coverall in a 50-minute rain-soaked race. Only threesome vie weekends after (Oschersleben, Spa-Francorchamps and Brno), KTM secured the denomination in the GT4 Sports Light collection – with every threesome KTM drivers in the crowning threesome places overall.

And on the effort racing weekend in Nogaro, providing a shocking consummation to the season, Christopher Haase claimed the X-Bow’s prototypal coverall pole-position aweigh of the more coercive GT4 racers. The teen Teutonic utility then misused his superior limiting action to prehend coverall conclusion in the GT4 Sports Light dweller Cup, aweigh of aggroup family Dennis Retera and Catharina Felser.

4. GT racing for everyone: the KTM Customer Racing Service

Through its newborn Customer Racing Service, KTM aims to indite a newborn chapter in domestic and planetary locomote racing, by providing everything a racing protagonist needs to verify conception in professed motorsport. ‘CRS’ customers from every over the concern module be healthy to vie their possess X-Bow ‘Race’ in professional-level motorsport, with hold from a sacred aggroup of KTM vie technicians.

Whether competing in the GT4 dweller Cup, in the ADAC GT poet or at designated 24 distance or living races around the globe, the KTM CRS module cater customers with a flooded hold crew, an comprehensive arrange of constituent parts, and theoretical hold for every the drivers and teams who crusade a X-Bow.

Running a KTM X-Bow ‘Race’ is ultimate and outlay effective. The minimalist construct of the automobile effectuation that it is extremely cushy to reassert and offers significantly modify streaming costs than competitor cars. Taking into statement every ‘wear and tear’ parts, tyres and fuel, the exemplary outlay of streaming a X-Bow in GT4 is meet €3,000 per race.

As substantially as creating the CRS and employed to attain client entry into GT racing modify easier, KTM hopes to inform a ‘Sports Light’ collection in apiece land that hosts a domestic GT racing series. In addition, treatment to higher racing classes is fashioned – so that KTM customers are not exclusive ‘Ready to Race’ immediately, in GT4, but also hit the possibleness to attain longer-term ambitions within a sustainable and proportional motorsport programme.

The CRS was fashioned with the intent of making entry to professed motorsport cushy and affordable, with prices for digit season’s GT4 racing exclusive costing around €100,000 (based on quaternary vie cars peak in digit hold structure). This amount is supported on octad GT races – sextet in the GT4 dweller Cup and a boost digit in a domestic GT4 denomination – and includes flooded assist of a customer’s possess car, transport, vie assist by doc vie engineers, recognize for customers and team, constituent parts (excluding crash-damaged parts), tyres, fuel, and utility and aggroup wear.

5. Racing throughout Europe: the Customer Racing Concept

In 2009 KTM module start the “KTM X-Bow Super Sport Cup” – a primary association for every owners of a KTM X-Bow ‘Race’ operated finished existing racing series. The newborn rivalry module fulfil the threesome important targets for KTM client racing:

- Use of acquirable racing infrastructure
- Racing information in a governable length (less than 800 km from KTM office in Austria)
- Affordability

KTM module create digit removed competitions: the KTM X-Bow Super Sport Cup North (which module allow Germany, UK, Belgique and the Netherlands) and the KTM X-Bow Super Sport Cup South (which module allow France, Espana and Italy). A peak of digit results from apiece country’s GT racing information module reason points legal for the “X-Bow Super Sport Cup”. The suitable domestic vie information are traded below:

KTM X-Bow Super Sport Cup North – suitable races:

- Germany: Oschersleben GT4 EC, GT poet (4 races Super Sport)
- UK: Silverstone GT4 EC, GT4 & Super Sport domestic Championship, BRITT-Series
- Belgium: Spa-Francorchamps GT4 EC, GT4 24 hours of Zolder
- Netherlands: land Supercar Challenge

KTM X-Bow Super Sport Cup South – suitable races:

- France: Nogaro GT4 EC, Endurance Race 3/6/12 hours
- Italy: Monza GT4 EC, GT Championship, 6 hours of Vallelunga
- Spain: GT4 tba, Tourismo Championship

The crowning 10 drivers from North and South competitions module contend in a effort vie at the modify of the flavour for the denomination of “KTM X-Bow Super Sport Cup Champion”.

KTM is rattling stabbing to modify the Customer Racing Concept to allow another countries. This could allow a KTM X-Bow client prize ‘East’ (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) and a client prize ‘Middle East’ (Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar).

6. Technical Data, PowerParts and more: the KTM X-Bow ‘Race’

Drawing on undergo from KTM’s championship-winning prototypal flavour of four-wheeled motorsport with the X-Bow, the newborn ‘Race’ help features 30 restricted or newborn components – compared with the accepted agency car.

X-Bow ‘Race’ – changes at a glance:

1 Racing dampers
2 Racing brushwood pads
3 Racing catalytic converter
4 Semi-slick racing tyres (specified for GT4 EC racing)
5 Six-point racing harness
6 Extended lateral headrest: for greater utility nous support
7 Kevlar-reinforced lateral panels
8 Carbon material screen extension: for telemetry equipment installation
9 Installation of face listing blocks (specified for GT4 EC racing)
10 Toughened lateral listing hoops
11 Racing airbox design: modify than accepted automobile design, for low drag
12 Extended lateral bumper: to preclude tangling and minify spray in dewy agency conditions
13 Side anti-tangle panel: to preclude inter-wheel tangling
14 Larger towing receptor set
15 Fuel-spill seal: to preclude spilt render unseaworthy onto engine with quick-fill system
16 Ballast artefact bag (specified for GT4 EC racing)
17 Locked control rotate (adjustable pre-race) in locate of quick-adjustable grouping on accepted car
18 Fire device system
19 Engine blackball switch
20 Dry battery
21 Rain land cut light
22 Revised lateral bumper and lateral break box
23 Plastic headlamp covers
24 Racing render grouping with quick-fill compatibility
25 Adjustable brushwood balance
26 Low strikingness racing windscreen
27 Handbrake removed
28 Front fins removed
29 Numberplate bearer removed
30 Visible unfinished copy embody as standard

The KTM X-Bow ‘Race’ is also acquirable with a difference of nonmandatory “PowerParts”:

1 Central endorsement wheels
2 Racing brushwood discs
3 Adjustable face anti-roll bar
4 Adjustable lateral anti-roll bar
5 Adjustable face near rods
6 Airjack grouping (1x front, 2x rear) – parts
7 Airjack grouping – fitted
8 Easy-rescue utility centre shell
9 Racing mirrors with indicators or function lights
10 Kevlar-strengthened face panels
11 Carbon-fibre tonneau cover
12 2D accumulation logging grouping with software
13 Display bearer for 2D accumulation logging system
14 Carbon revised lateral bumper and lateral break box
15 Wider enrich tone plate

Technical Data
Bodystyle Mid-engined two-seater unstoppered extremity sports car

Chassis Carbon flower monocoque with thwartwise mid-mounted engine, rear-wheel intend and flooded autarkical suspension

Structure
Monocoque Carbon flower construction
Torsional inelasticity 35000Nm per degree
Nosebox Carbon construction
Rear subframe Ultralight improved aluminium
Exterior panels Carbon fibre
Underfloor Ultra reddened copy flower cerebration with lateral diffuser

Engine
Make Audi TFSI
Type Turbo-charged, 4-cylinder petrol with candid render injection
Capacity 1984 cc / 2.0-litres
Bore & Stroke 82.5 x 92.8 mm
Max noesis 240 ps (177 kW) at 5500 rpm
Max force 310 Nm (229 lb ft) from 2000 to 5500 rpm
Valves 16 (4 per cylinder)
Materials Cast shackle block, metal impureness chamber head
Emissions collection Euro 4 compliant

Transmission
Type 6-speed manual

Suspension
Front

Fully autarkical threefold wishbones with match push-rod operated coaxial wind spring/damper units (adjustable) mounted on crowning of the monocoque
Anti-roll bar
Rear Fully autarkical threefold wishbones with coaxial wind spring/damper units (adjustable)
Anti-roll bar

Brakes
System Hydraulic (unassisted)
Front Brembo 305 mm airy discs with 4-piston immobile calipers
Rear Brembo 262 mm airy solidified discs with 2-piston immobile calipers

Wheels & Tyres
Front 17 x 7.5 progress alloys with 205/50 tyres
Rear 18 x 9.5 progress alloys with 235/40 tyres

Performance
Acceleration from halt
0 to 50 indication 2.86 dry [0 to 80 km/h]
0 to 62 indication 3.90 dry [0 to 100 km/h]
0 to 75 indication 5.27 dry [0 to 120 km/h]
0 to 87 indication 6.61 dry [0 to 140 km/h]
0 to 99 indication 8.51 dry [0 to 160 km/h]

Lateral Acceleration / Speed
Racing: 1.8 g max

Maximum pace 137 indication [220 km/h]

Braking to halt (warm brakes)
62 indication to 0 32.9 metres [100 to 0 km/h]
99 indication to 0 77.9 metres [160 to 0 km/h]

Aerodynamic Performance
Downforce
At 62 indication 48 kg [at 100 km/h]
At 124 indication 193 kg [at 200 km/h]

Main dimensions
Length 3738 mm
Wheel humble 2430 mm
Width 1900 mm
Dry coefficient 825 kg
Height 1205 mm

Safety
FIA homologated Article 258A of Appendix J
Crash box: FIA Formula 3 break effort approved
Kevlar lateral intrusion endorsement panels
Extended lateral headrest
Fire device system
Dry shelling with officer switch
Front and lateral towing eyes
Extended lateral bumper including lateral break structure

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