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Quite agree. I'm rooting for Glickenhaus. I hope they come second to #26......
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biggest difference is that audi, toyota and big corporations have PR guys who manage communications of the company, glickenhaus has jim's twitter... I don't know if can be called arrogance, it has been more about an overhyping way to communicate that backfired on them, like at example passing from "we will win le mans" to "I don't think we have budget for extra le mans rounds". |
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I confess I've no great desire to see Toyota 1 and 2 again. It's time for a change. Whether that be a Glick or the Alpine or a P2. I don't believe Toyota will run trouble-free to the flag with either of their cars, but we shall see.
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Lol I want Toyota 1-2 but I want them to be push and test!! I want them to be challenge.. I’m sick and tired of people complaining that Toyota is wining without any competition ( Audi did it for many years but I don’t remember anyone complaining about it ). Glinken can take third spot for now lol
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Nissan is the perfect example lol.. I would love to see them back in the WEC one day
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Exaaactly the way I see it too. According to a lot of fans, Audi won their hearts with the way Audi treated them at their hopitality at LM. |
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Does anyone have an info about Toyota s lock up enterin Mulsanne? on TV I did not notice anything.
It is a bit annoying, because I was about to write a quick post about how satisfied I am with Toyotas average- and also peak pace. They seem to run like clockwork - knock on wood - and they are far more dominant as I had expected. Seemingly there are a lot of people cheering against Toyota and hyping everything they can. Kobayashi s qualy lap was a bomb! For our betting game for myself I can say that I would surely not win, I expected Toyota to be slower actually in qualy trim! In Hyperpole they could do a 3:24! |
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kobayashi lap was made with little traffic on track during first minutes, don't know how much they could improve during hyperpole. I honestly don't expect they will be able to find 2 seconds from nowhere, but never say never. I'm sure toyota guys know that soon or later they will have to deal with brakes issues during the race, anyway during onboards was quite impressive to see how unstable and goofy toyota looks during the fast direction change in the middle of mulsanne chicanes, compared to that ts050 was basically running on rails. Despite this, during qualifying toyota was 0.6s faster than alpine and best 07 on S3, quite surprising considering how alpine and 07 fit better for porsche sector. |
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That's a good point. If there as many incidents as in this FP3 the entire "hyperpole" may be run under slow zones.
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Isn’t it covering the release for that structure, in the event that the driver needs to be extricated?
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So that’s what the WRT car fell foul of?
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