Car Name: | Argo JM19[1] |
Category: | IMSA GTP Lights/Group C2 |
Constructor: | Argo Racing Cars |
Designer: | Jo Marquart Achim Storz |
Chassis: | Aluminum honeycomb monocoque covered in carbon fiber composite body |
Suspension: | Double wishbones, coil springs over shock absorbers, anti-roll bar |
Length: | 46701NaN1 |
Width: | 19201NaN1 |
Height: | 11001NaN1 |
Wheelbase: | 26701NaN1 |
Track: | 14801NaN1 (front) 14701NaN1 (rear) |
Engine Name: | Mazda/Buick/Ferrari/Ford-Cosworth |
Capacity: | NaN1NaN1 |
Configuration: | 2-rotor/V6/V8, |
Turbo/Na: | naturally-aspirated, |
Engine Position: | mid-engined |
Gearbox Name: | Hewland DGB |
Gears: | 5-speed |
Type: | manual |
Weight: | 7001NaN1 |
Wins: | 7 |
Podiums: | 21 |
The Argo JM19, and its derivatives/evolutions, the Argo JM19C, and the Argo JM19D, are a series of IMSA GTP Lights/Group C2 sports prototype, designed, developed, and built by British constructor Argo Racing Cars, for the IMSA GT Championship, introduced in 1985.[2] Its use in sports car racing continued into the early 1990s. It won a total of 7 races, and scored a total of 21 podium finishes. It was powered by a number of different engines, including a Mazda 13B rotary engine, a Buick V6 turbo engine,[3] a Ferrari V8 engine, and even a Ford-Cosworth DFL V8 Formula One-derived engine.[4] It did, however, find most of its success when equipped with the Mazda-powered Wankel rotary engines.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]