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http://www.toyotahybridracing.com/fan-corner/photo-gallery-fancorner/?album=1&gallery=29

The prototypes would be amazing if not for the hideous shark fins.

I have to say, the Toyota looks better than the Audi.

Pics like this make me want to photoshop the fin away:



but:



from: http://i.imgur.com/huDu3.png

I imagine F1 introduced the fin for a while for similar reasons, and they successfully did away with it over the past 2 seasons. What was their solution?

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It wasn't mandatory and the teams that did it only for performance.

I want to, but like the Peugeot hybrid before, the lightning bolts in the livery are horribly cliché. They need to stop with stuff like that. I'd be awesome as solid colour.

Atleast they make sense for the sponsor.

I wonder if Denso actually directly sponsors, but it does supply the electric motor...

I'm a really big fan of the Delta Wing. It's radical and the times have been encouraging so far. At first everyone was laughing with it, but now it might be something to look out for in the future. Best of luck to them

Really looking forward yet again to this years 24hrs as usual.

Hopefully Toyota can put up abit of a challenge for abit, but i'm really looking forward to the P2 battle, and go Brabham in the LMP1b class

such a pity Peugeot isn't in the race. It could have been more than epic. Cross fingers Toyota somehow can make it until the end. But I doubt it.

Well Japanese teams normally does tend to put more emphasize on reliability rather than on speed. So I don't think that should be a huge problem.

Well it's yet to run for 24 hours without a major reliability issue, so to achieve your first full 24 hour run in race conditions is a big ask.

NOTE FROM THE AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE L’OUEST
Tickets damaged by light and heat


The Automobile Club de l’Ouest has found a quality problem on the thermal paper used for all the access tickets to the Le Mans 24-Hours test day.

The tickets become black when exposed to the heat or the sun for extended periods, so they cannot be checked (visual or scan).

This problem has arisen because our supplier has used defective paper.

All the tickets - pedestrians, car parks camp sites and traffic are concerned.

To be able to continue to use your tickets please respect the following instructions:
- Do not expose your tickets to the light or heat.
- Do not use the plastic pouch that enables you to show the car park, welcome area or traffic circulation pass behind your windscreen.
- Only take out the ticket for checks.
- Do not leave them in your vehicle.

However, the print from the thermal printers is stronger so it is possible read the bar code numbers as well as the transaction numbers to find these tickets in the ticket computer programme and to reprint them if necessary.

Additional personnel will be entrusted with the job of replacing the tickets by E-tickets printed on ordinary paper.
Seven places for reprinting the defective tickets will be available from Monday 11th June 2012 open from 08h00 to 18h00. They will stay open all week until Sunday 17th June at 14h00.
- The General Welcome (ticket office) at the Rotonde, in the Parc des Expositions,
- North entrance,
- South entrance,
- East entrance
- Annex entrance
- Beauséjour entrance
- The sporting module (main building in front of the pits)

Outside these times, a single withdrawal point will be available at the ‘Plis en attente’ in the Rotonde in the Le Mans Parc des Expositions.

The Automobile Club de l’Ouest would like to present its excuses to the spectators, partners, team members, suppliers and media representatives for this inconvenience that is outside its responsibility and caused by the use of unsuitable paper by one of its suppliers.

We remain at your disposal for further information on 33 (0) 2 43 40 2012 (between 09h00 and 18h00).

Coloured because it's pretty damn important for those attending.

oh dear, that réally sucks

woops

What a fail.

So are you guys still planning on meeting up on Friday?

("Japanese"? ) Listen to Davidson on RLM: http://audio.rpix.org.uk/lm24/2012/2012 ... tday_1.mp3

Interview starts at 1:36.30, but after 1:40.45 he talks about goals. Makes it pretty clear that plan is to be fast rather not so fast & reliable. Altough apparently Wurz said the opposite on RLM (don't know when, missed it) so could be a split strategy.