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Toyota pounds the grid with the good old double hyperpole!
Gotta admire how they have fought off the bop and some pretty serious challengers. I think they are probably the best hypercar team on the grid. I'm tired of their dominance, but they supported WEC when everyone else bailed, and carried the series into the hypercar era.
Might be fun watching them run around in a big pack for the last hour with dead tires. The slide jobs would be epic.
With as tricky a track as it is, I wouldn’t rule out some safety cars to pack the field every so often. Toyota usually seem to manage their tires better than their competitors, so when they have the speed to match it’s hard to bet against them.Toyota pounds the grid with the good old double hyperpole!
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Just checking the previous video and the Ferrari was getting a wicked snap in the first sweeper after the Senna S. This could be a lot of fun.
Gotta admire how they have fought off the bop and some pretty serious challengers. I think they are probably the best hypercar team on the grid. I'm tired of their dominance, but they supported WEC when everyone else bailed, and carried the series into the hypercar era.
OK, right now, Toyota has the speed and they still have execution on their side. I'm going to go with them and hope for one of the privateers instead. Anybody else want to stick their neck out?
Might be fun watching them run around in a big pack for the last hour with dead tires. The slide jobs would be epic.
We might be looking at the same kind of thing for the Indycar race tonight.
Aside from Hypercar and GT3 both having runaway winners, I thought it was a lot of fun. Really good battles up and down either field, more so in Hypercar. If there were ever a WEC round that raced like an IMSA round, it was this one with the narrow track and argybargy. The second sector reminds me of Fuji’s final sector, which is great for wheel-to-wheel action. The #6 Porsche and #7 Toyota really maximized their days with great comebacks after early troubles.
The 963 and Valkyrie have pretty similar noses, tbf. To me it kooks like the Valkyrie (minus the crazy splitter on the road/track day versions) with a Glickenhaus-esque wing on the back. I’m a fan.
My new favorite racing term.
Pretty sure it’s just test camo and will be either Heart of Racing blue or British racing green on the final product.
COTA is going to be stupid hot, I can’t believe they’re running a race in Austin, TX on Labor Day weekend between 1-7 PM local time.
Don't the prototypes have some sort of climate control?
They do have ****pit temperature limits and the prototypes do have some sort of ventilation or A/C, but they’ll be right up against it that weekend. On the GT3 side there are some models that lack A/C I believe, and I’m not sure if they have the same ****pit temp limits.
Remember in the 80s GTP they were running cool caps and cool suits?
They have run there before, and attendance was always a disaster. The Grand American races were an attendance disaster too, which was saying something for that series. Indycar flamed out there too. They pack the place for F1, but other series can't seem to cut it there.
MotoGP and NASCAR seem to do pretty well, but it definitely hasn’t translated to anything else yet. The 2020 WEC event was reported 22k over two days, after the 2016 figure was reported as 75k but disputed by those within the paddock (some said 10k on race day).
I’ve heard the Peugeot project is currently funded through 2026, but you do get the impression that they need to show significant improvement next season to keep that in place.
It doesn't make sense they can't get that car competitive. They are not a bad operation and probably much better than they have shown so far.
My thoughts exactly. Like, how do you not win with an Oreca? Even the current P2 motor would be competitive if they just unleashed them Check the P2 times from 2018 (when they were part of the DPI class) and they were not that much slower than the new GTP cars.
P2 engines are underpowered compared to what they need for Hypercar/GTP; F2 power level is pretty similar to what’s required. In that respect it makes some sense. But they cheaped out and tried to tune that for reliability when they probably should’ve commissioned Gibson for a new engine given their positive track record.
I'm sure Gibson could build whatever is necessary.
P2 engines were pushing out 450kw at max when they were unrestricted several years back; Hypercar/GTP BoP power range is 480-520kw. So it would take some modifications and tuning if they were to use the GK428. LMP2/DPi were as fast as they were because they were lighter and had more downforce.
I think it’s geoblocked for the qualifying and race broadcasts.