"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
02/20/2016 at 12:02 Filed to: 100th 24 Hours of Le Mans Competitor Sneak Peek, Toyota TS070 H2 Plus G, LEGO Toyota TS070 H2 Plus G, Samurai Sunday, Tiny Turbo, TT-scale, Tiny Turbo Le Mans, LEGO Le Mans, MOC
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02/20/2016 at 12:02 Filed to: 100th 24 Hours of Le Mans Competitor Sneak Peek, Toyota TS070 H2 Plus G, LEGO Toyota TS070 H2 Plus G, Samurai Sunday, Tiny Turbo, TT-scale, Tiny Turbo Le Mans, LEGO Le Mans, MOC | 2
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From left to right, first and second row are the same cars: Toyota-31 (Haryanto, Vikander, Isagara), Toyota-32 (Ellis, McGraw, von Stossenmeister), and TOMS-32 (Ito, Sato, Kirasagi), who will be sponsored by Castrol for another 3 years following a contract re-signing.
[Toyotas new TS070 is an evolution of the hydrogen fuel cell TS060, which itself is a bold departure from the more conventional hybrid TS050 that won Toyota their first Le Mans race outright in 2016. Banking on from extensive (and top-secret) testing and the driving talent of Rio Haryanto in Toyota-31 (which won last years 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans) to carry them past a thick field of faster teams from Nissan, Ferrari, Mazda, Matra, and Panoz and for a second winthe first, they hope, with hydrogen power.]
Just in time for Samurai Saturday, meet the Toyota TS070 H2 Plus G, a hydrogen fuel-cell racer. Comments about the build are welcomed.
I finally got around to building a LEGO car in Tiny Turbo scale, thanks in large part to Flickr user !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , who dropped his 2015 Le Mans cars just as I was binge-watching both Truth in 24 films and races in Sebring and Le Mans from 2009 onwards.
This is the thrd in a now 16-part preview for a fictional 100th running of the endurance classic, where 48 (!!!!!!!!!) cars from 16 (!!!!!!!!!) manufacturers tackle the Circuit de La Sarthe and try to outlast each other for 24 hours.
The plan is to make all 48 cars, both individually and as a team, then pop Bluerender to get them rendered before this years Le Mans race. Vignettes, studio shots and on-site shots will come up by then. Oh, and did I mention that I will post instructions for all of the cars come race day?