Toyota announces WRC plans

[pantealex]

I read there is likely to be two test teams. TMG to test around the world and TMR to test only in Finland? A bit like Overdrive and Hallspeed?

post #685
at the moment:
-They will built 5 Toyota WRC in Tommi´s farm
-2 test teams:
--1 in Finland
--1 in WRC locations (same as VW did before joining in)

[Rally Power]

Time for some of the rally journos to earn their corn - instead of rehashing PR pieces.

Rally is a small world and the few journos covering it probably won’t dig messy issues that could upset the sport stakeholders.

Either way, PR’s are useful to trace a time path of events and you don’t need to be a journo to understand that sometimes they are more than propaganda pieces.

When a major corp admits disappointment on own actions and congratulates their main rival associates they’re pretty much assuming they’ve hugely f…… up. In these cases usually some heads tend to roll.

[Sulland]

What are the odds of Latvala joining Toyota?
he is one of the quickest, and if he could form a car around his driving style, and get confidence from the manager, he might stabilize and blossom!

[Simmi]

What are the odds of Latvala joining Toyota?
he is one of the quickest, and if he could form a car around his driving style, and get confidence from the manager, he might stabilize and blossom!

He won't be world champion in a VW as long as Ogier is around - that's for sure. With the Finnish angle to the new team it could be a nice home for him. He needs to do something different and take a risk or two. Otherwise he'll just keep coming second.

VW have Mikkelsen who can move up, and Lappi who can sit in the third car so no worries for them.

[AL14]

What are the odds of Latvala joining Toyota?
he is one of the quickest, and if he could form a car around his driving style, and get confidence from the manager, he might stabilize and blossom!

It would be more than a gamble to leave the best car and become part of an uncertain project (uncertain in a performance point of view), but I agree that with Ogier there, it is almost impossible to win more than a couple of rallies per year, and maybe he needs a desperate move. Don't know if I would have the courage to do it though.

[Rallyper]

More interesting (even if I know it wont happen) Ogier joining Toyota who tempting him with a BIG bag of money...

[Andre Oliveira]

When TMG will recruit a real rally test driver? Sunninen? Camilli? With all respect but not the drivers with speed and WRC experience that a project like this need.

[AL14]

When TMG will recruit a real rally test driver? Sunninen? Camilli? With all respect but not the drivers with speed and WRC experience that a project like this need.

According to rumors Hirvonen will be at test in Italy today. If true I guess he will be driving and not just in the service.

[itix]

https://youtu.be/O8vGiLIdSas

I guess this video of a recent test has been discussed before but I am not yet up to date with the forums (been away for a while)... Can anyone explain to me what the light dot on front right bumper is?
Are they measuring yaw and roll or why is there a light on the road?

And why is the TMG car still running? Are they building and developing the car and Tommi maybe building the team structure and the people required to run an event?

And why still run a car that at least when I last heard about it was built to 2014 specs? Maybe they've done updates to it.

[Mirek]

I guess this video of a recent test has been discussed before but I am not yet up to date with the forums (been away for a while)... Can anyone explain to me what the light dot on front right bumper is?
Are they measuring yaw and roll or why is there a light on the road?

It's Correvit optical sensor used for measurement of absolute, longitudinal and transverse speed, distance and tyre slip angle from which many other values can be further counted.

Check here various versions with datasheets: https://www.kistler.com/cz/en/applic...sensors_csmota