Toyota Petrol Hybrid LMP1 to Lemans and WEC (Its Official)

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Could be this:

2.1 – The cars must be presented:
2.1.2 – With a flag measuring 26 x 16 cm of the
nationality of the competitor’s licence affixed to the
front bonnet.
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Only reference to country flags I found (ctrl+F) from the sporting regulations (and technical regulations).
 
It's impossible to call Toyota's Le Mans 2012 programme a failure. In fact this year had striking similarities with Peugeot with the 908. The TS030 was fast, consistently quicker through speedtraps than the Audi, but did have reliability niggles - it slowed in qualifying, and its contact with the Deltawing did do some more underlying damage that shows the car is still a little fragile. Also bear in mind at the time of Davidsons horror crash that the Toyota had just briefly assumed the lead.

It took Peugeot 3 years to win Le Mans, it may take Toyota the same time. But also Audi had a numerical advantage. 4 Audi's, all had slight issues but there strength in numbers. Toyota need at least a 3rd car. In fact the fact Toyota only want to put one car in the rest of the WEC this season shows either a couple things: Budget is not that high for the project, or there is some kind of major issue with parts; development perhaps already on a newer version, or a lack of commitment.

Get Toyota 3 cars, snap up a couple of the Le Mans greats who are in other cars at the moment (Brabham anyone?) and with a years experience, and next year we have a true fight - after all let us not forget Toyota had little testing under their belt following one of its cars being destroyed in testing already.
 
It does takes them quite a while to produce parts. I remember that from a show I was watching. Which car are they putting out?
 
Furinkazen
It's impossible to call Toyota's Le Mans 2012 programme a failure. In fact this year had striking similarities with Peugeot with the 908. The TS030 was fast, consistently quicker through speedtraps than the Audi, but did have reliability niggles - it slowed in qualifying, and its contact with the Deltawing did do some more underlying damage that shows the car is still a little fragile. Also bear in mind at the time of Davidsons horror crash that the Toyota had just briefly assumed the lead.

It took Peugeot 3 years to win Le Mans, it may take Toyota the same time. But also Audi had a numerical advantage. 4 Audi's, all had slight issues but there strength in numbers. Toyota need at least a 3rd car. In fact the fact Toyota only want to put one car in the rest of the WEC this season shows either a couple things: Budget is not that high for the project, or there is some kind of major issue with parts; development perhaps already on a newer version, or a lack of commitment.

Get Toyota 3 cars, snap up a couple of the Le Mans greats who are in other cars at the moment (Brabham anyone?) and with a years experience, and next year we have a true fight - after all let us not forget Toyota had little testing under their belt following one of its cars being destroyed in testing already.
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Yes, they are in a limited budget this year, since at the very beginning of the year. After all, they prove to everyone that their Le Mans Prototype is quick & agile, like Peugeot. Hopefully they are the next Peugeot and get 3 works prototypes for next year, 2013. Hopefully they can hire such drivers such as ex Peugeot factory drivers: Frank Montagny, Sebastian Bourdais, Simon Pagenaud, Nicolas Minassian.
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