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World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 04 Apr 2017, 09:28
by matt21
New Porsche 919 (via AMS):

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And the new Toyota TS050(via AMS):

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Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 04 Apr 2017, 12:54
by j2004p

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 04 Apr 2017, 13:01
by santos
I can see the difference between them, but i wish they had a different color scheme. I was watching some videos from Monza test, and it's not so easy to recognize witch one is the Porsche or the Toyota.

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 06 Apr 2017, 10:15
by FW17
Is there any evidence to suggest that 919 is using TJI
"Therein lies the rub. F1 has, at enormous cost and effort, developed highly advanced internal combustion engines capable of delivering thermal efficiency indices of 50% - up from what was considered a remarkable 40% five years ago. Porsche, Mercedes and Ferrari cracked the code; only Honda and, to a lesser degree, Renault, failed. Yet this technology is due to be chucked out with the bath water."

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 08 May 2017, 02:37
by Sevach
Porsche is taking a bigger beating than expected and has started asking for clarifications.

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 08 May 2017, 07:08
by rscsr
Sevach wrote:
08 May 2017, 02:37
Porsche is taking a bigger beating than expected and has started asking for clarifications.
As far as I understand Porsche is running both their cars with LeMans aero (albeit with max DF), while Toyota ran with their high DF package on 2 cars in Silverstone and Spa. Although it looks good for Toyota, there are still 6 weeks until LeMans and not everything was shown already (especially Porsche's MGU-H should be quite suited for LeMans, although they seemed to have a lower topspeed than the Toyotas in Spa).

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 08 May 2017, 12:36
by wesley123
Fairly certain(But not 100%) Toyota ran LM spec at Spa. The big difference between both specs is the suspension covers, the LM spec is a bit higher.
Sevach wrote:
08 May 2017, 02:37
Porsche is taking a bigger beating than expected and has started asking for clarifications.
Unclear what Porsche is aiming at. What was said was "rear diffuser", but it's unclear what they mean. The sole thing for attention is using brake duct aero to create a skirt, but both Porsche and Toyota are doing the same thing in that area.

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 08 May 2017, 19:11
by Sevach
wesley123 wrote:
08 May 2017, 12:36
Fairly certain(But not 100%) Toyota ran LM spec at Spa. The big difference between both specs is the suspension covers, the LM spec is a bit higher.
Sevach wrote:
08 May 2017, 02:37
Porsche is taking a bigger beating than expected and has started asking for clarifications.
Unclear what Porsche is aiming at. What was said was "rear diffuser", but it's unclear what they mean. The sole thing for attention is using brake duct aero to create a skirt, but both Porsche and Toyota are doing the same thing in that area.
Toyota ran 3 cars at Spa, 7 and 8, their regular WEC cars, were on high downforce configuration, the 9 was in low downforce trim.

Either way, Porsche looks worried, let's see if something is gonna happen to the Toyota.

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 11 May 2017, 15:37
by kamilandersen
just imagine the RSR and the 919 taking two double victories at Le Mans!

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 12 May 2017, 06:04
by zac510
I think the deeper worry from Porsche is that they have made a gentleman's agreement with the ACO and Toyota not to make a new chassis until 2020 and their chassis is already old and slower, it seems.

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 16 May 2017, 10:15
by Sevach
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/toyota-ts050/

This article has been updated with some stuff about the Toyota diffuser.

Also, line up changes for Toyota https://twitter.com/adamcooperF1/status ... 7426994176

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 21:05
by RicME85
Porsche is apparently pulling out of LMP1 at the end of the season

Re: World Endurance Championship 2017

Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 21:17
by Sevach
RicME85 wrote:
27 Jul 2017, 21:05
Porsche is apparently pulling out of LMP1 at the end of the season
That's the death blow i think.

Edit: Formula E it is https://presse.porsche.de/prod/presse_p ... sport-news

That's Renault, Audi, Jaguar, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche in F-E now... am i missing anyone?