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Old 3 Mar 2014, 18:21 (Ref:3374474)   #201
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The front looks like "The return of the Lister Storm".
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Old 3 Mar 2014, 18:27 (Ref:3374478)   #202
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To me the front fenders do not look much more extreme than the TS030.

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Old 3 Mar 2014, 19:07 (Ref:3374491)   #203
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To me the front fenders do not look much more extreme than the TS030.

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Indeed, from the teaser pic looks like the 2013 spec
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Old 3 Mar 2014, 19:16 (Ref:3374494)   #204
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It certainly looks different from last year - quite sleek actually.



And another one off Twitter -

The first photo looks like the 2012 front fender, with the second photo looking like the 2013 front fender.
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Old 3 Mar 2014, 19:21 (Ref:3374497)   #205
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Basing things off very blurry images is never gonna end well.
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Old 3 Mar 2014, 21:02 (Ref:3374539)   #206
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The still in Simmi's post is the clearest found from the video (and the one that Mike used on his FB page to look at), and it looks much more blunt and Lister-ish than the 2012 or '13 LM TS030.
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Old 3 Mar 2014, 22:28 (Ref:3374593)   #207
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Maybe is just product of a digital distortion but the front looks like a Lister with a looooong nose.

Le cockpit loooks a bit weird too, soooooooo loooooong, but as I said it may be just a digital distortion consequence

On the rear also looks really original

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Old 3 Mar 2014, 22:59 (Ref:3374624)   #208
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A few additional screen shots highlighting further details of the TS040:






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Old 3 Mar 2014, 23:32 (Ref:3374631)   #209
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It looks like the TS040 exhibits an elongated cockpit shape similar to that of the new Audi R18.
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Old 4 Mar 2014, 02:27 (Ref:3374682)   #210
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Remember, these are pictures from a video of the roll out car back in early January. I suspect they have changed a bit. But what interests me is the low nose and the rear wing mounts being separated from the rear fender edges.
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Old 4 Mar 2014, 09:29 (Ref:3374801)   #211
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oh god! guess Toyota listened to Zero requests from the fans to make the car look least pretty headlights wise. Looks like an Evolution of that 2013 abomination
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Old 4 Mar 2014, 10:40 (Ref:3374824)   #212
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The car looks slimmer… let´s wait and see :-)
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oh god! guess Toyota listened to Zero requests from the fans to make the car look least pretty headlights wise. Looks like an Evolution of that 2013 abomination
And yes. Top priority : efficiency, given computers calculations. Second : harmonious curves and shape.
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The car looks slimmer… let´s wait and see :-)
It is, according to the new regulations
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I agree with earlier comments that it is hard to judge too much detail from blurry testing shots, but I'm glad to see they are keeping the narrow nose. At least it will look a bit different from the front compared to its rivals.
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oh god! guess Toyota listened to Zero requests from the fans to make the car look least pretty headlights wise. Looks like an Evolution of that 2013 abomination
Nico Lapierre said the car will look 'beautiful' in an interview on the wec site. Its in french though so Im not sure on the exact words. Besides, the pictures are from the roll out car. Maybe the light cluster will change.
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It is, according to the new regulations


I mean slimmer not in length but overall…
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Toyota Racing will announce TS040 hybrid in the Paul Ricard circuit on March 27.
http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=9&no=54940
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Toyota Racing will announce TS040 hybrid in the Paul Ricard circuit on March 27.
http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=9&no=54940
The final date arrives...
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Old 9 Mar 2014, 16:23 (Ref:3376737)   #220
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Remember, these are pictures from a video of the roll out car back in early January. I suspect they have changed a bit. But what interests me is the low nose and the rear wing mounts being separated from the rear fender edges.
Well the one in video seem to be high speed version for LeMans. We might see alot of diferentes to on normal WEC tracks, especially front and rear wing.
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I don't think we will see much variations track by track because the new regulations gave the teams the chance to build a adjustable wing on the front if I'm not mistaking.
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Old 9 Mar 2014, 22:09 (Ref:3376843)   #222
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Yeah! the car seems a little higher in the front beak, as also the front fenders (a little higher)... meaning perhaps push more air under the car... yet the front wing is not possible to tell if it has the same (positive) angle of attack of Audi and Porsche.

[Also the top ram-air intake to engine seems a little bigger... no wonder!.. no restrictors and everybody is about to optimize this aspect, not invalidating the engine can be less displacement]

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The side vertical end plates of the rear wind are also clearly much smaller and not tall like Audi and the TS030... perhaps they didn't like to be confused viewed from the rear lol
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And that is one aspect i don't understand... that *big* dorsal fin, to function like an anti-spin lateral aero-brake... its ugly ugly like its mother!.. and for the effect the side vertical rear wing end plates could play even a better role ( more distance from the center)... make them double as big, and we could have dorsal fins less than half as big.
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Old 9 Mar 2014, 23:55 (Ref:3376873)   #225
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And that is one aspect i don't understand... that *big* dorsal fin, to function like an anti-spin lateral aero-brake....
It is not anti-spin. It is anti-lift/anti-take-off-and-fly-away, when the car already spun and is moving at high speed sideways. It clearly does not hurt yaw stability to have one, but that is not what it is imposed.
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