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Post Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:25 pm

The front wing brings me to another question, have Toyota designed a modular style car??? As it brought back memorys of my first or second time watching the Le Mans 24 hour race in the early 2000s, Audi did a gear box change in that race in 4 minuites if i remember.

Whitch, could mean that Totota have probably designed a car that can get back to the action quickly, cutting 3 seconds from the stop, posibly meaning a extra place.

Pity they havnt been avle to do it with the rear wing and shark fin as im shure Trulli would have loved that after Kubicas shunt.
ESPImperium
 
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Post Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:02 pm

ESPImperium wrote:The front wing brings me to another question, have Toyota designed a modular style car??? As it brought back memorys of my first or second time watching the Le Mans 24 hour race in the early 2000s, Audi did a gear box change in that race in 4 minuites if i remember.

Whitch, could mean that Totota have probably designed a car that can get back to the action quickly, cutting 3 seconds from the stop, posibly meaning a extra place.

Pity they havnt been avle to do it with the rear wing and shark fin as im shure Trulli would have loved that after Kubicas shunt.


I'm not meaning to contradict but i thought all front wings/nosecone were essentially modular..?

If they could litterly clip on a new wing and leave the nose i think that would be modular.
Callum
 
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Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Post Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:05 pm

dedge wrote:I had noted this in the China GP topic too!
The thing which has to be found is: how do they lifted the car without the front wing?
Because they do not have any air jacks like in GT cars.
So, how toyota pulled up the car enough to replace tires and front wing at the same time?


They had a guy on the left hand side of the car with a jack under the driver. He's hard to see but after the car has departed he's there with his jack.
zac510
 
Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Location: London

Post Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:42 pm

Callum wrote:
ESPImperium wrote:The front wing brings me to another question, have Toyota designed a modular style car??? As it brought back memorys of my first or second time watching the Le Mans 24 hour race in the early 2000s, Audi did a gear box change in that race in 4 minuites if i remember.

Whitch, could mean that Totota have probably designed a car that can get back to the action quickly, cutting 3 seconds from the stop, posibly meaning a extra place.

Pity they havnt been avle to do it with the rear wing and shark fin as im shure Trulli would have loved that after Kubicas shunt.


I'm not meaning to contradict but i thought all front wings/nosecone were essentially modular..?

If they could litterly clip on a new wing and leave the nose i think that would be modular.


What im meaning is more modular than before.
ESPImperium
 
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Post Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:32 pm

HA!
ISLAMATRON
 
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Post Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:16 am

ESPImperium wrote:Pity they havnt been avle to do it with the rear wing and shark fin as im shure Trulli would have loved that after Kubicas shunt.


Toyota almost managed to put a new fin and rear wing on Trulli's car, but the car was too heavily damaged. Toyota said that the attachment clips for the rear wing were too damaged for a new wing to fit on.
vasia
 
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Post Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:00 pm

I too was very impressed. Other teams were wiggling their broken noses off and then clipping the new ones back on by hand.

Toyota just took their "Nose on a Cart" and just wheeled it straight on and it was done.

I've never seen anyone with such an efficient solution before, but now that I've seen it, it seems so obvious and simple!

- KJ
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