Toyota admits that WEC rivals Porsche and Cadillac may have a 'slight advantage' at Sebring, owing to a 24-hour race worth's experience of their new LMDh machines:
Toyota will enter the third year of WEC’s Hypercar era with an updated version of the GR010 Hybrid that won the last two titles, but will have to do without tyre warmers as part of a change in regulations for 2023.
This is why Toyota believes it may have to play catch up to rivals Porsche and Cadillac at Sebring, as it braces itself for increased competition in the WEC’s top class after years of limited opposition from fully-fledged manufacturer teams. “Therefore, we have done our homework. I would not be too concerned about it. If they have an edge there, we will need to push.”
“We learn as much as we can every time the car goes racing,” Diuguid said. “We all put a lot of testing miles in. “I think the biggest thing is in Daytona we saw great racing between a lot of different approaches to the same problem, and the WEC championships expands on that with two different platforms, which is two types of regulations approaching the same problem.
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