Come on now, you seriously need to brush up on your facts. The brake by wire system was allowed by the rule makers, just the same as the rear wing. In fact, Audi and Porsche both copied Toyota and use that type of braking system. You come off snobbish yet you're ignorant on your facts. Then you spew bs like people are claiming Toyota is so brave and small. Well, their budget is. It's a quarter of what they spent in F1 per year ($300million-$75million).
Budget doesn't make a team an underdog. While Audi has the money to make an OP car, the LMP1 regulations really hurt Audi's LMP1 production, you can see from multiple races since 2014 that Audi have been struggling to get to grips with the 2014 regulations.Audi the underdogs? The team with a formula 1 budget who uses Sauber's windtunnel more than the f1 team.Classic.
Remember I was using Bo's logic of the past not mattering so Audi's history wouldn't matter either.
They had other problem detected at the time. If they played safe, they could avoid that failure. Toyota still don't know the best approach on how to Le Mans. Simple as that. It's not coincidence that they failed again to win Le Mans. Only Toyota fans will say that it's all about bad luck.
You know I keep seeing people say this, and I don't think anyone saying it was watching the same race as the rest of us that disagree with you. Part failure be damned, if that car had made it another lap, nobody would be saying BS like that. They ran at the front for pretty much the whole damn race. Don't know the best approach...please.
I wasn't talking about that failure. Their approach I'm taking about is some decisions taken during some specific scenaries. Just an example: Why Toyota didn't try to repair the #6 when Sarrazin was still complaining about how hard it was to drive? If he crashed the car? Then Toyota wouldn't even get a podium. That's not a good approach.
Pitting to change tyres is very different to bringing the car in to the garage to fix a broken floor when the Audi was 1 lap behind so they would have passed them anyway.
Call them bad decisions if you want, but in the final moments of the race they were the ones out front. And that's what it all comes down to.
I already said that safety car period also could have hurt the reliability of the car. It could go either way.
No. The Audis were several laps behind. Toyota had several minutes to fix the car.
A interesting theory but what if the safety car(s) are what caused the issue in the first place? Putting around at speeds that a Prius was designed to run instead of a race speed cant be good for a race car. Add to that all of the extra time spent on the slow zone limiter putting stress on parts could have contributed to a parts failure. I dont know how they spend their time at a endurance testing session but I would bet they spend very little of it running around on a rev limiter.
No. The Toyota was only one lap ahead of the #8. You have your timeline messed up. Koby wasn't at fault for that damage either. I keep seeing this here and other forums. That damage was there from contact with a GTE earlier in the race. The performance wasn't all there, but it was made worse because Koby spun when he was catching the #2.
Thanks for that, it was a great read and very informative. It helped clear some things up for me. I've been following this thread and some of the arguing makes sense to me now, I guess...
