Toyota reworked everything for new LMP1 challenger

Stephane Sarrazin claims the Toyota WEC group is "actually fired up" about its possibilities in 2016 with an all-new auto, saying that each detail was altered from its 2015 counterpart.
After winning last year's WEC title, Japan manufacturing company was well-off the rate of German opponents Audi and Porsche in 2015, its two automobiles forming a sub-class of its own and scoring just two third positions all season.
In a play to close the difference, Toyota will soon be bringing its all-new TS050 HYBRID VEHICLE to the celebration in 2016, and Sarrazin claims the brand new car has no carryover components from its predecessor.
"The automobile is brand new; every single component has been altered," Sarrazin stated in a interview together with the Lemans 24 Hrs web site. "Toyota never stops to amaze me due to that.
"We'll possess a turbo-charged engine and KERS batteries and we are upgrading to 8 mega-joules, that may give us more energy and better acceleration.
"They have re-worked every thing, for example, aerodynamics. We are actually fired up."
A "laborious" season
Sarrazin additionally disclosed that Toyota understood when the official Prologue evaluations in March at Paul Ricard that it might be out of competition for successes.
"It was hard, laborious even," added the Frenchman. "We had the greatest auto last season, yet this yr we were lagging behind Porsche and Audi.
"Last cold temperatures, we were able to obtain three seconds per lap but they knocked off five or six. Right from your evaluations at Paul Ricard, we understood we were outside of it.
"Le Mans was clearly one of the huge disappointments. Last year, we led the race and also this year we were three seconds behind on each lap.
"I should confess that was rough for all, but we have set it behind us."
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