24 Hour Results
Mazda: Zoom-Zoom
Porsche: Gloom-Gloom
Lexus: Living the Life of Riley
jd
Does anyone know how separate the Lexus racing team is from Toyota
racing team ? In my neck of the woods half the people on the street
buying a Lexus think they are buying a German made car..... Even
though
the production cars have more parts in common with the Toyota that it
isn't funny.
-dave Arbogast
John Doonan Mazda USA racing chief mentioned at Daytona the RX9 was
introduced
at the Detroit 2008 auto show. Did you get any info or pictures Dave?
--
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Toyota racing separate from Lexus?
Of course the Lexus is a German car. Don't you read Toyota's the F1
reports? Check the Chief Engineer in the article that follows.
jd
Valencia Test ? Day 2
Wednesday 23 January 2008
Location: Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia, Spain
Drivers: Jarno Trulli, Timo Glock
Track length: 4.000km
KEEPING UP THE GOOD WORK
Panasonic Toyota Racing kept up the good work with another positive
day of testing at Valencia, with Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock again at
the wheel. Another sunny day in Spain meant track conditions were
perfect for testing and both drivers focused on set-up, with
aerodynamic evaluations high on the priority list along with
suspension settings and other mechanical adjustments. The two TF108s
ran without trouble all day and, with few red flags to interrupt
proceedings, both Jarno and Timo took the opportunity to gather a lot
of useful set-up data, with each driver completing more than a race
distance. Jarno and Timo will continue tomorrow for the final day of
testing at Valencia.
Jarno Trulli - Chassis TF108-01
Best Lap Time: 1min 13.547s
Position: 15th
Total laps: 96
Total distance: 384km
?It was a difficult day for me because I did a lot of laps and I had
to spend the whole day gathering some specific data to send to the
factory in order to understand what we can improve on the car. The
car was not particularly well balanced but this was the plan for
today in order to study certain aspects of its behaviour. I am happy
because I completed all the work I had planned. I wasn?t looking at
lap times at all today ? the main thing was to get all the data we
needed.?
Timo Glock - Chassis TF108-02
Best Lap Time: 1min 13.129s
Position: 11th
Total laps: 95
Total distance: 380km
?It went pretty well and again the car ran smoothly so we completed
quite a few laps to make it a very productive day. We did a lot of
work again on set-up and we tried many different settings to see what
affect they had on performance. We are understanding more about the
car every time we test and I am quite happy with how things are
going. I think we are moving in the right direction and we know what
we have to work on.?
Dieter Gass, Chief Engineer Race and Test
?Today went according to plan and both Timo and Jarno completed their
programmes without any problems. I have to say, so far the new car
has shown very impressive reliability. Today we mainly concentrated
on aerodynamic testing, trying various different configurations and
comparing the results. I would say we are making good progress; we
had another productive day and we have again improved our
understanding of the new car. We expect to continue this tomorrow,
when we will run a similar programme.?
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