Polestar Expect Volvo V8 Supercar Engine To Be Competitive Quickly

V8 Supercars officials are openly considering a future with more than just eight-cylinder engines. The car takes just 44 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 60.

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Garry Rogers Motorsport has completed their first Volvo S60 in V8 Supercars specification.

Polestar expect volvo v8 supercar engine to be competitive quickly. Volvos global racing partner Polestar is confident of having the Swedish marques V8 engine up to speed in time for a competitive assault on the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship. Volvo S60 Polestar new car review Updated hi-po sedan quickly attends to some of the originals faults but doesnt elevate it to the level of its German rivals. 2017 Volvo S60 Polestar Volvo As quick as the V60 Polestar is the ever-so-slightly lighter S60 sedan nudges its brother car out in a zero to 60 sprint 44 seconds to 45.

The 10-year veteran of Polestars racing programs was dispatched to Australia this year as Volvo made the leap into V8 Supercars. Following speculation last week Volvo Car Australia has today confirmed a partnership has been struck with Garry Rogers Motorsport and Polestar the Volvo Car Groups global performance and motorsport partner to form Volvo Polestar Racing making the Victorian-based outfit a fully-backed factory team. The V8 engine that will power Volvos attack on the V8Supercars Championship is under development in Sweden now and should be in arace car and testing by December.

The work on the S60 chassis is done in the GRM workshop in Australia while the engine work is done by Polestar in Sweden with the first More. It has the same 20 liter four 362 horsepower and 347 pound-feet of torque going to all four wheels but just dont expect to haul as much stuff out back as it has. Volvo will be first luxury car brand to join V8 Supercars with factory team.

And its a gallant initiative to tackle the cut-and-thrust of V8 Supercar racing in a Volvo the Polestar-developed V8 engine was displayed recently at the Sydney 500 event. Volvo may be better known for turbo fives and inline fours but in 2005 it launched the XC90 with a new eight-cylinder engine built for it by YamahaFast forward to this past June when Volvo. But that wasnt the only relationship he was building over the break revealing he made a trip to Sweden to see engine supplier Polestar including boss Christian Dahl and visit Volvos global HQ.

Bet the meetings between those dapper Swedish racing engineers and tough-as-nails Aussie team boss Garry Rogers have been and continue to be interesting. Volvos V8 Supercars contender will resemble the S60 Polestar road cars Garry Rogers remains confident that his teams first Volvo S60 V8 Supercar will be ready for track testing next month. I went to Sweden over Christmas and spent four or five days with the Polestar people really going over procedural things more than anything Rogers.

Volvo has officially announced it will join the V8 Supercars grid in 2014. Based on the Yamaha-developed B8444S 44-litre V8 productionengine that saw service in the XC90 SUV and S80 sedan it will be bored andstroked to 50-litres for the Car of the Future. After rumours of BMW Chrysler and other brands joining the V8 Supercars series under CotF Car of the Future rules its been revealed today by V8 Supercars that Volvo will be the fifth manufacturer to join the series in 2014.

Triple Eight Race Engineering technical director Ludo Lacroix is certain the existing lap records for V8 Supercars at Mount Panorama will be smashed at the upcoming Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. We have got one car completed and another chassis just about completed said Garry Rogers. Volvo Car Australia has declared interest in downsizing its V8 Supercars engine package to four-cylinders should such a change be welcomed under the next-generation rules.

Robert Dahlgren will race for the new Volvo Polestar Racing team in the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship joining Scott McLaughlin at the team which was previously known as Garry Rogers Motorsport. Installed primarily to help develop the Polestar engine package. Volvo will become the fourth official manufacturer on the grid and the fifth competing car brand in Australias premier motorsport series this year with.

The 2017 S60 Polestar is the fastest Volvo car and while it edges the V60 Polestar by just a small margin this baby can run. Garry Rogers Motorsport with Polestar joins forces with Volvo to race two S60 V8 Supercars from 2014 Championship onwards. Even though its 20-liter engine 362 horsepower and its 347 pound-feet of torque are the same as with the V60 Polestar its load carrying ability is relatively.

Polestar managing director Christian Dahl will head back to Sweden this week as his Gothenburg-based engine department focusses on shoring up the reliability of its rapid V8 Supercar package. In fact after the 2 million resurfacing he believes the circuit could almost be too fast. Given Volvos decision to ditch both V8 and six-cylinder engines in its road car line-up Dahl is.

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