Failure is not an option

Toyota is a strong favourite to win Le Mans this year but, as Racecar discovered, the team is taking nothing for granted and its ageing TS050 has now been beefed up, while a radical battery development is also on the car

By ANDREW COTTON

Toyota’s concentrated its pre-season testing programme on racecar reliability and coping with failure modes The loss of Porsche and Audi from LMP1 has put the FIA WEC into something of a crisis mode. Suddenly balancing the performance of its sole remaining manufacturer and a privateer has become a pressing need, and so artificial limits have been put in place that heavily favour Toyota, yet give some optimism to privateers. But this is not a process that has just started; the ACO admitted in 2016 that it was preparing the way in case it finished up with just one manufacturer and that it had been exploring the idea of DRS and active suspension to give privateers more speed. However, for the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship the option has been taken to limit…

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Racecar Engineering (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2018

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