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29th June 2022, 13:26 #32
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And talking about Latvala again, “At the end of last year we focused on the development, just to make a really strong car and not optimising the performance,” he told WRC.com. “We decided we wanted to make a car which is just reliable and then when we have more time, we try to optimise the performance. “We could see that [the previous round in] Sardinia was an example where our performance was not the best but then here we see the reliability side, which was really important and needed. The engineers have done a really good work.”
I do not think that Toyota was lacking performance in Sardinia. If I remember correctly their main problem on the Italian rocky dustroads was mainly cooling related.
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2022/wrc...aris-strategy/ (note: in the big team winners photo you can spot center stage Toyota Gazoo Racing technical director Tom Fowler. That man is really deserving all the praise with their current Rally1 car)
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