http://homepage.virgin.net/shalco.com/tte_ban.htm
Something I've been trying to find for ages :D
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http://homepage.virgin.net/shalco.com/tte_ban.htm
Something I've been trying to find for ages :D
With hindsight, I love the suggestion in the link you included in your first post that banning Toyota would weaken 'an already frail championship'. Today, that might be a decent plea in mitigation, but then...!
As with Michael Schumacher being excised from the 1997 F1 points table but not excluded from every race, the Toyota ban created one of those weird statistical anomalies that is very hard to justify or explain, except on the grounds of the sheer complication of altering every result.
I'm amazed that more people aren't interested in this. It's one of the most famous "cheats" ever seen! :mark:
Quite funny isn't it :) To me some of the best years happened after Toyota were banned :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Very Interesting, thanks for that Daniel..
I remember feeling so bad for Delecour on the Monte that year with Auriol blitzing him, albiet only only on the uphill sections it was blindingly obvious that something shady was going on..
I still wonder how much extra power this ingenious design released.. Any airflow dynamics experts on here?
It makes the "water cooled" brakes in F1 look like childs play as far as ingenuity. This was such a clever engineering effort & it boggles the mind to think how long Toyota got away with it.
Well the article says 25% more air and maybe 50bhp but who knows really :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
I think McKlein's Rally or Rally Cars said that there was a date stamped on the parts but my copies are 10,000k's away :p
I know it's unrelated but I find it amusing that people say the FIA won't ban McLaren for any possible advantage they've gained from the documents they had. I have a belief that the FIA are all about fair play and if they find out that McLaren have cheated they'll make them the Toyota of the WRC :)
How did the F1 water cooled brakes work? :)
This is where I found the picture and link too :) Good read that!
http://forums.autosport.com/showthre...threadid=90222
As I recall, further suspicions were aroused when Kankkunen showed a turn of speed in Catalunya that he had never demonstrated on dry tarmac before, and never would do again.
I always thought it was at the superspecial in Australia when Auriol pulled away from someone else at the stage start. Probably a combination though