Featured Toyota Hybrids At Spa

Crossposting my post from your thread on TDIClub...

So, Audi #8 is the only LMP1-H running well right now, as I understand.

Porsche #1 had punctures and the resulting damage has taken it out of the possibility of completing minimum distance (but it's running), Porsche #2 has a crippled hybrid system.

Toyota #5 is in the garage after dominating the race, after starting to smoke badly. Toyota #6 retired due to an electronics failure causing engine damage.

Audi #7 is smoking I thought I saw.

And then there's the Rebellions, which are ahead of Audi #7.

Edit: #5 retired too, so Toyota's a DNF.

 

just tuned in...baseball.

 

don't think i get it, but i'll look around, thanks.

 

Looks like the #5 car wasn't officially retired, they've got it on pit lane, probably to get ready for one lap, to take the checkered flag, because they did enough laps to get 70% complete. (They've completed 113 laps so far, we're looking at 160 laps for the leading Audi, and 112 laps is 70%.)

The #1 Porsche is cutting it damn close, at 110 laps complete.

Edit: Radio Le Mans is saying the #5 is doing a lap on battery alone.

Edit 2: #5 completed its (slow) lap and took the flag, so 7th place in class, versus 8th in class for the #1 Porsche. Rebellion got themselves a podium!

 

The results were pre-determined. porsche spyder already beat a mclaren's time on a laguna seca, even though the mclaren has what, a couple HUNDRED more horse power?
Porsche 918 vs McLaren P1 Race on Laguna Seca | Video | Digital Trends
you can't beat a great awd hybrid on a curvy track - that's why they dominate formula 1 now days
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All of the LMP1-H cars are AWD hybrids with lithium-ion batteries. The Audi has a 6-speed single-clutch sequential gearbox, whereas the Porsche and Toyota have 7-speed single-clutch sequential gearboxes.

Audi has a 4.0 V6 turbodiesel with a front electric motor, and is in a class that allows harvesting and releasing 6 MJ of energy in one lap of Le Mans.
Porsche has a 2.0 V4 (yes, V4, not inline 4) turbocharged gasoline engine with a front electric motor and a turbine generator (harvesting excess exhaust energy), and is in a 8 MJ class (the most allowed, but with less fuel flow allowed than in the 6 MJ class).
Toyota has a 2.4 V6 turbocharged gasoline engine with front and rear electric motors, and is also in a 8 MJ class.

Edit: And Formula 1 is exclusively RWD - rear electric motor and a turbine generator. Not sure how much energy storage they have, and any numbers (other than actual electric storage capacity) wouldn't be comparable to LMP1-H.