Toyota TS050 Technical Analysis
The Toyota TS050 has been competing in LMP1 since 2016 and the 2019/20 season will be it’s last before the hypercar era. So what’s new on this lastest TS050"
Throughout the early years of the TS050?s career, the intense competition of Audi and Porsche coupled with Toyota?s notorious bad luck lead to some disappointing results, particularly at Le Mans. However, in 2017 Kamui Kobayashi lit up the timing screens ? setting the all-time fastest lap of 3m14.791s, putting it on pole in Qualifying. Although this performance didn?t transfer to the race where a crash, a clutch failure and technical problems handed the win to Porsche. But in 2018, Toyota came back with a vengeance. Although it was the only LMP1 manufacturer left standing, it still had to fend off changing Equivalence of Technology penalties as well as a competitive field of LMP1 non-hybrids. Despite this, the 2018/19 TS050 claimed victory at the 24 hours of Le Mans, making it the second car from a Japanese manufacturer to ever win at the prestigious 24 hours. However, the nature of the 2018/19 season meant that Toyota had the chance to win Le Mans again in 2019, which they took, as well as crossing the line first at every other round of the season for good measure. Naturally, Toyota were crowned manufacturer and driver champions, but can Toyota continue this success in 2019/20"
The 2019/20 WEC paddock is looking rather bleak. The LMP1 category has lost Dragons...
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racecar-engineering
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