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25 Feb 2016, 17:45 (Ref:3617726) | #3751 | |
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You know one is a fan when civilian truck driver employments are known
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25 Feb 2016, 18:31 (Ref:3617744) | #3752 | |
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Haha! I presume he'd have points on his license after this and that'd be enough to sack him! Unlucky to hit a car with a dashcam!
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25 Feb 2016, 21:08 (Ref:3617786) | #3753 | |
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I'm not sure if it was on this forum, but when Toyota was way off pace last year around LM, they were being poked at and this news came up about the bad things going on for them. There were other job offerings on the TMG page and truck driver was one of them. I can't take credit, someone else put it together.
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25 Feb 2016, 23:55 (Ref:3617828) | #3754 | |
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I must have missed that when someone posted on Facebook that video
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28 Feb 2016, 20:34 (Ref:3618475) | #3755 | |
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Nice info here from Mat Fernandez Twitter, 6000km covered by two TS050's at Aragon including a 30hr endurance.
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28 Feb 2016, 20:59 (Ref:3618485) | #3756 | |
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There must have been some considerable delays in that 30hr test though, because one car would easily cover 6000 kilometers with steady running over 30 hours.
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28 Feb 2016, 21:08 (Ref:3618488) | #3757 | |
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Think that was their first test with the new car. Full article (pay) here http://www.lequipe.fr/Sport-auto/Art...-course/638334. Hopefully someone can give us more information on it.
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Lets just hope its fast and not only reliable then!
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Pascal Vasselon confirmed that TS050 will run a V6 Turbo not a V4 like Porsche- http://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/we...746_23779.html
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2 Mar 2016, 23:15 (Ref:3619440) | #3763 | |
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Did they jack the V6 from Cosworth/Nissan? Would save some huge development costs. After all, Bowlby thought the world of it and it was the only thing that worked properly on the car.
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3 Mar 2016, 00:51 (Ref:3619458) | #3764 | |
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That's probably the last thing Toyota would outsource Glad it's a V6, though. Adds diversity to the field. Now I wonder if the 2.4L displacement rumor is real.
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Isn't the Nissan V6 an enormous thing? I'd have thought Toyota will be looking for something more compact.
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3 Mar 2016, 11:51 (Ref:3619520) | #3766 | |
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Are there really people who would seriously entertain the idea that Toyota would be using an engine that was branded Nissan before one of their cars? Seriously people...
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3 Mar 2016, 19:50 (Ref:3619625) | #3769 | ||
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This will be a real test for Toyota against the Nissan effort. at least where Powertrain and energy recovery systems are concerned with time constraints, budgets and reliability and the ability to get it all together is concerned
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4 Mar 2016, 02:47 (Ref:3619760) | #3770 | |
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Not really worried about it coming together like Nissan. Toyota said they've had this powertrain in development for a couple years now. Plus they have TMG at their disposal. Coming from the supercap they definitely know there needs to be an improvement of performance from the batteries in relation to it. Will be interesting to see.
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4 Mar 2016, 16:53 (Ref:3619948) | #3771 | |
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Toyota will be bringing just one car to the Prologue. Not sure that's a good sign...
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4 Mar 2016, 16:59 (Ref:3619951) | #3772 | |
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Audi also has just one R18 listed so don't think it's a worry
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4 Mar 2016, 17:50 (Ref:3619962) | #3773 | ||
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Aston Martin also with one car. Teams are allowed to do that, as long as they bring one car at least.
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4 Mar 2016, 17:56 (Ref:3619965) | #3774 | |
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Well it's more of a PR meeting anyways (for factories), and they test at HTTT plenty enough in any case
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4 Mar 2016, 18:34 (Ref:3619970) | #3775 | |
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Just get rid of the Prologue and the Test Day. Some cost savings right there ahead of the new regs.
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