Toyota will wear number 1 and 2 in the 2015 WEC season

Kinja'd!!! "El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
01/30/2015 at 16:12 • Filed to: None

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...confirms drivers. It's for the first time in many years when someone managed to strip those numbers away from Audi and hopefully the updated TS040 and its new livery will look worthy of wearing them.

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As for the drivers, car #8 becomes car #1, and will be handed to world champions Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson joined by Kaz Nakajima. And car #7 becomes car #2, with Alex Wurz, Stephane Sarrazin and Mike Conway.

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As you can see, Nicolas Lapierre is out of the picture and I wouldn't be surprised to see him driving for Nissan.

Jean-Eric Vergne, Kamui Kobayashi and Mathias Beche are currently testing for Toyota, to replace Conway as test and backup driver.


DISCUSSION (5)


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
01/30/2015 at 14:37

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There us absolutely no way Toyota won't win Le Mans this year.


Kinja'd!!! El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > TheHondaBro
01/30/2015 at 14:44

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They have a good chance, but anything's possible in racing and especially at Le Mans.


Kinja'd!!! Sejji > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
01/30/2015 at 15:28

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These cars look soo good.


Kinja'd!!! Alex Zapata > TheHondaBro
01/30/2015 at 17:32

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I heard that so many times last year...

There's no way Audi is winning again, going against Porsche and Toyota, Porsche is going so fast in testing (then Quali), Toyotas are faster tan Audis, etc...

Yet there we went, Le Mans was won by Audi, plainly because the team (not just the drivers, but every one on the team) is better than all others, and that hasn't changed...


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > Alex Zapata
01/30/2015 at 17:34

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BUT Toyota won most other WEC races. They were destroying Audi at Le Mans last year but one component failed on the cars, a fluke.