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Old 20 Jun 2018, 05:44 (Ref:3832018)   #6326
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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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Old 20 Jun 2018, 15:45 (Ref:3832132)   #6327
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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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Old 21 Jun 2018, 05:17 (Ref:3832256)   #6328
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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.
Lots of recent Audi drivers in that list. Lotterer and Duval come to mind.

The race winner is back at TMG now, probably to be immortalized in a Toyota museum sometime in the future https://twitter.com/Toyota_Hybrid/st...60727403503617





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Old 25 Jun 2018, 12:06 (Ref:3833010)   #6329
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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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Old 25 Jun 2018, 13:12 (Ref:3833014)   #6330
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Indeed it does. The video definitely frames it as a 'next step'.
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Old 25 Jun 2018, 14:35 (Ref:3833029)   #6331
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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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Old 25 Jun 2018, 23:57 (Ref:3833123)   #6332
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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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Old 26 Jun 2018, 02:43 (Ref:3833130)   #6333
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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.
Thanks for that. I'm curious when he says "racing version" of the GR super sports, does that mean it will be their new GTP/lmp1? I would assume that because I don't know where else it would race but the first comment about it doesn't link up to the ACO's future class is confusing. Did that mean it wasn't made for the class but can be used?
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Old 26 Jun 2018, 02:57 (Ref:3833131)   #6334
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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

Would be nice to have a Ford GT replacement in the WEC championship.
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Old 26 Jun 2018, 03:47 (Ref:3833135)   #6335
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Thanks for that. I'm curious when he says "racing version" of the GR super sports, does that mean it will be their new GTP/lmp1? I would assume that because I don't know where else it would race but the first comment about it doesn't link up to the ACO's future class is confusing. Did that mean it wasn't made for the class but can be used?
Of course, "if Toyota participates in LM24/WEC with the hyper car concept."
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Old 26 Jun 2018, 17:04 (Ref:3833211)   #6336
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Of course, "if Toyota participates in LM24/WEC with the hyper car concept."
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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This might be slightly off-topic, but it just might have to do with their future LMP/GTP(?) car https://newsroom.toyota.co.jp/en/toyota/23009821.html. This link confirms that Toyota are developing the "next generation super sports car". Based on the GR Super Sport Concept which looks like a modern Toyota GT-One

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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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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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Thanks for that. I'm curious when he says "racing version" of the GR super sports, does that mean it will be their new GTP/lmp1? I would assume that because I don't know where else it would race but the first comment about it doesn't link up to the ACO's future class is confusing. Did that mean it wasn't made for the class but can be used?
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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.
And the Autosport render of a few months ago marks how this car could look.

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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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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).
F1 used a chicane down the Mistral, WEC tested with the full straight.
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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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F1 used a chicane down the Mistral, WEC tested with the full straight.
Next year might be a better comparison as F1 is looking at removing the chicane for the next race and running the full straight themselves after driver and team complaints.
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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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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.

Alonso won Le Mans.
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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Seventeen million.
Thanks, I calculate with that figure they would be able to go to the moon
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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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Best answer I’ve seen to any (searching...) question for many a year
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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.
What if it is unladen? Can it achieve the necessary air speed?
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Alonso won Le Mans.
Did he? I hadn't heard...

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Le Mans winning pedal unit of # 8 TS050 hybrid was gifted to Akio Toyoda.
Except for this pedal unit, #8 car will be preservation.
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