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27 Nov 2017, 20:15 (Ref:3783583) | #6026 | |
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Nothing indicates Toyota will let go of Davidson or Lopez, especially the latter. He's been doing Toyota promotion just being in the car for Argentinian people. It's good to see the amount of following he has that support Toyota even more because he drives for them. Not to mention him doing some Argentinian touring car races for Toyota.
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27 Nov 2017, 21:34 (Ref:3783593) | #6027 | ||
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Fact is that unless Toyota fields a third car (which does seem unlikely), someone's getting sat for the races Alonso does, if he commits beyond LM. And if only for LM, why not a third car for two or so races? TMG should have the budget for that since they're not spending as much on R&D for the car next season.
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27 Nov 2017, 22:09 (Ref:3783602) | #6028 | |
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It makes sense for Alonso to do Spa and Le Mans only.
If Toyota fields three cars then it's no problem. Why would he bother to race against weaker cars in 6h races? Only to get experience in traffic maybe. |
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28 Nov 2017, 00:09 (Ref:3783623) | #6029 | ||
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Which means, they can control what they spend their money on in regardless of what's best for the team. Third car isn't something they want to spend their money on. unless they are willing to risk all three cars with not enough spare parts and testing times. |
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28 Nov 2017, 00:22 (Ref:3783625) | #6030 | |
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If I was in charge of deciding how many cars they'd enter (and if ACO would accept):
Prologue - 1x or 2x (depending if they do other long tests) Spa - 2x LM - 3x Silverstone - 1x Fuji - 1x or 2x Shanghai - 1x Sebring - 2x Spa '19 - 2x LM '19 - 2x or 3x (2 if they already won in 2018, 3 if still going for the first win) Last edited by Deleted; 28 Nov 2017 at 00:31. |
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28 Nov 2017, 00:23 (Ref:3783626) | #6031 | ||
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I don't know if Alonso will do WEC next year from the start before Le Mans, he will be very busy with the McLaren Renault. Maybe he could get more free time after Le Mans 2018 and get more practice at the end of the year and at the first races of 2019 season to be ready for Le Mans 2019.
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28 Nov 2017, 02:14 (Ref:3783641) | #6032 | |
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I suspect his pre-LM program would be pretty light and compact (especially comparing to the 500 running-up)
0-1 day for participating the February ACO Press Conference - or he doesn't bother and just sends a video 1 day somewhere for Toyota PR duties 3-4 days for Spa 6 Hours 1 day for the ACO Rookie Simulator in Paris 2 days for LM Test weekend Then 7 days at the track for the actual race week Last edited by Deleted; 28 Nov 2017 at 02:21. |
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28 Nov 2017, 02:24 (Ref:3783642) | #6033 | ||
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Why not a third car for Le mans when Alonso and his sponsors put in part of the budget.Then it would be more affordable i'd say.Don't know the exact amount we are talking about here but it would surprise me if he'd not be able to at least raise a couple of million.
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Santander have decided not to renew is contract as title sponsors of Ferarri and they had come from the hand of Alonso, their colors fit with those of the Toyota Gazoo Racing and it would be great to see them on the TS050. |
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It is to be expected that the McLaren Renault 2018 will be more competitive in order to reach the podium but it is difficult to suppose as a winning car. Alonso won his world championships in 2005 and 2006 more than 10 years ago and then it is reasonable that he want to return to be champion. The victory in the 24 hours of Le Mans and the WEC world championship could be very interesting for him. The only coincidence between F1 and WEC is COTA and the 6 hours of Fuji, COTA is the 18th race of the season one of the last and possibly at that time of the year he has no more chances to be an F1 champion and then he could also race in Fuji in the fight for the WEC title. |
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28 Nov 2017, 13:32 (Ref:3783761) | #6036 | ||
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Also I don't think he cares about the championship (he said somewhere he hasn't really even taken a look at the calendars), only winning the 24 Hours. The "other races" would just be practice and side fun |
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29 Nov 2017, 08:20 (Ref:3783962) | #6037 | |
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We'll see what happens. January is when Toyota say they will announce their drivers. Will he be announced then? If he isn't, does that mean he won't drive for Toyota? I think he could do the whole Super Season if he wanted. They may even fiddle with the dates to see to that, ya never know!
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29 Nov 2017, 08:51 (Ref:3783969) | #6038 | ||
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Agreed. At this point the championship is of no consequence for him. In future years, who knows....
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15 Dec 2017, 09:38 (Ref:3787183) | #6039 | |
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Is this GAZOO RACING Super Sport the basis for the lmp1 future from Toyota? Their showing this concept off at the Tokyo Auto Salon https://twitter.com/Toyota_Hybrid/st...79984308719617
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15 Dec 2017, 09:51 (Ref:3787187) | #6040 | ||
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15 Dec 2017, 13:28 (Ref:3787246) | #6042 | ||
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Looks good to me too
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16 Dec 2017, 07:39 (Ref:3787398) | #6043 | |
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TGR President Tomoyama said at TGR Festival on Dec 12, after demo driving TS050 himself, that releasing a commercial car utilizing their WEC related tech will take some time but they are releasing a concept car soon showing their vision; he said it will like a successor to LFA to show Toyota's sports car philosophy.
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18 Dec 2017, 00:15 (Ref:3787781) | #6044 | |
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This Concept car is likely to be release for Tokyo Olympic in 2020.
Unlike WEC, the car will have V8 with possibly more than 4l engine. (last I heard was 5l?) I thought this car wouldn't have the wing/spoiler but I guess I was wrong...but I know the car will have coolest way to enter.(They don't have doors but got similar design to fighter jet cockpit) |
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19 Dec 2017, 09:07 (Ref:3788025) | #6046 | |
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Official announcement has been made from Toyota to continue their WEC program.
http://toyotagazooracing.com/release...c/1219-01.html |
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19 Dec 2017, 09:45 (Ref:3788034) | #6047 | |
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I like this comment from Akio Toyoda:
"The ever-better cars that Toyota pursues are honed and created via the extreme environment of motorsport. That is exactly why we will persistently engage in motorsport, without being swayed by the good and bad of economic times." |
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19 Dec 2017, 10:38 (Ref:3788038) | #6048 | |
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That's great, we need them to stay and with Ginetta in the championship, there's more reason for them to stay. Hopefully they can win Le Mans this time
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19 Dec 2017, 10:44 (Ref:3788045) | #6049 | |
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Great to hear it from the boss himself. He makes a great leader for those who want to see Toyota in motorsports.
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19 Dec 2017, 15:50 (Ref:3788109) | #6050 | ||
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Some good news for once
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