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Rumor is that Porsche are still doing something that improves their refueling times by a couple of seconds per stop. Which means a gain of about 4-8 seconds per double stint.
Also, it should be noted that as far as development of the sprint and LM kits, though teams can't develop a whole new package without permission (unlikely to be forthcoming) from the ACO, teams can still change parts of them, but that's largely limited to interchangeable parts (dive planes, diffuser flaps if running a wing diffuser, which only Audi ever did, other minor stuff). Porsche's biggest advantage is that they now know where to aim. This compromising stuff and weather is why all the low downforce rounds IMO should be first, and why adding Monza or Paul Ricard would be a good idea, even if it cost a round, most likely COTA (though I'd probably yank Bahrain due to controversies there, though COTA has been run like a total crap show). Also, the weather tends to be better when Silverstone is a July-August round. |
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19 Apr 2017, 19:13 (Ref:3727835) | #5327 | ||
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Some Argentine media say that Pechito will be testing the TS050 in Paul Richards this week.
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19 Apr 2017, 23:59 (Ref:3727890) | #5330 | ||
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I agree with the LD kit. Since they wouldn't have gotten car ready after the silverstone, chances are, they are only testing one car. Driver wise, I think all japanese drivers are back home (as far as I know) so there will be max of 6 drivers there.(or less) |
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20 Apr 2017, 10:51 (Ref:3727949) | #5331 | |
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jp.motorsport.com reports Hisatake Murata interview.
https://jp.motorsport.com/wec/news/w...%9B%B8-895995/ *Temperature control of tire was the cause by which the pace of #8 didn't become stable. Race engineer ordered to Kazuki that he should shake the car and warm up tire. *Rear balance trouble seems the cause for Lopez's crash. *When Lopez crashed, they found out that hybrid system was alive. *Crash impact even came to steering of #8, so it took time to exchange the steering unit. *Porsche adopted the clever strategy they saved the fuel mileage and push 2, 3 laps at clean place. |
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20 Apr 2017, 23:56 (Ref:3728062) | #5333 | ||
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Btw,it seems from Lopez's twitter that he has been ordered to rest for a couple weeks. So he's probably not going to be testing the car this week. |
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Then, Will the 5 European drivers be testing the car? Last edited by hondafan37; 21 Apr 2017 at 04:45. |
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1 May 2017, 14:56 (Ref:3730378) | #5335 | ||
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Toyota To Run Both Aero Packages At Spa.
The #7 and #8 TS050s will race with the high-downforce package. The #9 will race with the low-downforce aero. http://www.dailysportscar.com/2017/0...es-at-spa.html |
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1 May 2017, 15:24 (Ref:3730381) | #5336 | ||
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Veddy interesssting.....
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1 May 2017, 19:04 (Ref:3730423) | #5337 | |
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I wonder if the LM kit will be any different from the one ran at the prologue in Monza? Looking forward to Spa more than Silverstone. We may see a like for like battle between Toyota and Porsche!
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3 May 2017, 11:51 (Ref:3730741) | #5338 | |
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4 May 2017, 10:38 (Ref:3730948) | #5341 | |
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Not good for his experience with the car and race conditions.
BTW, where is SPA race thread? |
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4 May 2017, 10:46 (Ref:3730954) | #5342 | |
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Yeah, where is It?
Fiawec live timing is down again... Lopez out is quite bad news for him and the team #7 |
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4 May 2017, 11:53 (Ref:3730969) | #5343 | |
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Looks like #9 is running considerable less DF (and drag) than Porsche. Their top speed is consistently higher and on their best lap was 305 kph, where Porsche (and #7 and #8 Toyota) was at 263-264 kph on their fastest lap.
Looks like #9 is in pure LM spec and won't make any competitive moves this weekend. |
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4 May 2017, 13:06 (Ref:3730990) | #5344 | ||
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Yeah, we need a race thread, since FP1 just happened.
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4 May 2017, 13:19 (Ref:3730993) | #5345 | ||
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i suspect porsche are running a high-downforce version of their LD package, pretty much the same as they did at silverstone, in order to be competitive with the HD toyotas. and they sure are, their ideal lap (with the LD setup) is actually faster than toyota's ideal lap with HD setup. anyway, so far, porsche's LD car seems clearly faster (~1.5 seconds) than toyota's LD car. but it's too early to draw conclusions, especially since toyota's LD was so fast at the prologue. |
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4 May 2017, 13:36 (Ref:3730997) | #5346 | |
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I wasn't comparing top speed of one top speed lap, the top speed diference is evident even if you look at "chronological analysis" for every single lap on http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/
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4 May 2017, 16:31 (Ref:3731021) | #5347 | ||
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Conway down to 1.56.3 in FP2.Porsche not far behind again with the nr 2 only 5 tenths off the nr 7's pace.
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5 May 2017, 08:03 (Ref:3731158) | #5350 | |
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Hisatake Murata interview by jp.motorsport.com.
https://jp.motorsport.com/wec/news/w...%A8%99-901994/ *#7 and #8 are HDF spec. It's because HDF spec has an advantage in Spa. *Kamui marked top time on Day 1. Kamui didn't do qualifying simulation at all. when he marked the best time, fuel was full. but tire was new tire. so it helped him. *Kamui said funny things. WEC running is like doing a Tetris game while full speed running. Various functions are provided and it is necessary to run while changing the function depending on the conditions of the course, the change of the weather, the change of the mileage. Operating with buttons and switches on steering wheel while talking with engineers by air. Last edited by Japanese Samurai; 5 May 2017 at 08:24. |
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