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I have a feeling that over the second half of 2017 they gave a few team members the following brief: watch every Le Mans from the past 20 years and mark down any failures and incidents you see in the greatest of detail. Then they collected all those notes and went testing to practice recovery scenarios from every single one of those failures/incidents.
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Just a stat for fans of Japanese motorsport: Kaz Nakajima is now only the latest of 11 drivers who contested in Super GT/JGTC to have won Le Mans outright. That's actually quite a list of legends, which happens to include among others, Tom Kristensen.
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And an official video about the GR Super Sport:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IrleJHCvYw&app=desktop Looks to me very much like a veiled tentative confirmation of that car carrying the racing programme into the new regulation set. |
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Indeed it does. The video definitely frames it as a 'next step'.
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Car Watch reports Hisatake Murata (TMG), Shigeki Tomoyama (Gazoo racing company) and Shigehisa Kitazawa (GR marketing division) interview in LeMans.
https://car.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1128017.html Murata: Project of GR super sports concept has started in April, 2017. So GR super sports does not link with ACO Hyper Car GT at all. Tomoyama: However, Hyper Car GT prototype concept is very welcome for Toyota. Murata: We want to introduce AWD hybrid system for road going version of GR super sports. So hybrid system of racing version of GR super sports will not same as that of road going version. Kitazawa: General customer can buy road going version GR super sports. No extra license is needed. We, GR company will launch racing version at first, then finally, we will deliver road going version car. Tomoyama: About Toyota Supra, we examine racing version (LMGTE or GT4?) of Toyota Supra with seriousness. We are examining "all" GT format for Supra. |
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So, after all of BMW's shenanigans about building a GTE car on a two-sizes-too-big platform instead of the Z4, the new "BMW Z4" can eventually run as an LM-GTE, but it will have a Toyota badge
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Thanks. I read the article, but google's translation leaves some things pretty vague. I wasn't sure if they were saying it would serve as a good basis for the future rules or not. It makes sense though since seemingly the only difference would be 4wd kers on the road car like the current TS050 instead of fwd kers for the new rules.
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I just noticed, that best race lap for F1 (1:34.225) this year at Paul Ricard was slower than the "unrestricted" Toyota at test (1:32.662). Quali times are a different matter but not that far off.
So only a little more fuel flow and hybrid power is enough to catch up with F1, no hardware or aero mods are necessary (like Porsche is doing). |
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It’s a worthy comparison. An F1 car with restrictions on a track with more chicanes is slower than LMP1 with less rules and more straights. I think that is sorted now.
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Ah, but cross-series comparisons are so great! I do wonder how much mj in boost Toyota used for those fast laps at the prologue.
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Seventeen million.
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Sorry, but 17 million MJ is not enough to accelerate something the mass of an LMP1 car to the escape velocity of the Earth.
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Wow, didn't know it actually had a clutch pedal!
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