Thread: WEC 6 Hours of COTA
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Old 18 Sep 2017, 07:33 (Ref:3768173)   #194
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Originally Posted by chernaudi View Post
Toyota were in contention because early on they matched Porsche for pace and tried a different strategy (if you're as fast as your opposition, you're not likely to get ahead by dong as they do).

Problem is, probably as the track and ambient temp warmed up, Toyota couldn't maintain that pace throughout a whole run. That seems to explain why they faded late.
The strategy wasn't really different, they just double stinted first. It was inevitable that it'd need to be done though. Fuji is hopefully a better race for them.
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