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Flaming car TF106 was presented/displayed officially this Saturday in the French factory that has Toyota in Valenciennes (which it leaves his Yaris model). The new model will be equipped with the V8 motor of 2,400 cc of piston displacement, specification that will enter this season in force, which initiates the 12 of March with the GP of Bahrein.
“We think that the concept to present/display a new car at the beginning of year, is out of phase”, explains the technical director of chassis, Mike Gascoyne. “We are improving important elements more and more frequently. Although it can be a process complicated to coordinate, it allows us to guarantee that the resources are spent in areas that cause that the car goes more express, when is needed not simply and redesigning component existing only because we think that we must do it. Consequently, we have worked in a process of continuous evolution, that allowed a transition us easy of the TF105 to the TF105B and to complete the TF106 before.”
In the GP of Monaco, seventh race of 2006, Toyota will introduce version TF106B.
“The production system of Toyota comprises of the Toyota Philosophy and it has allowed us to increase the effectiveness in all the areas of the company, eliminating expenses through an approach of continuous improvement”, comments the president of Toyota Motorsport and director of Panasonic Toyota Racing, Tsutomu Tomita. “the TPS has expanded to all the areas of Toyota Corporation, including Toyota Motorsport and our activities of Formula 1.”
“Every day we see and we felt the benefits that contributes to us”, it adds president John Howett. “We have created a special group TPS in Colony and using it in all the factory we have been able to trim times of manufacture, to reduce costs, to increase the effectiveness and to affect of positive form all the areas of the equipment, like Composed CNC and. It is a process that follows in march and which we encouraged to all the members of the equipment to be useful and to use. The cycle of progress does not have aim and an important part of the TPS is to promote the implication and communication with all the people who carry out the work, instead of to limit itself to give directives from above.”
The technical director of motor, Luca Marmorini explained: “With the change of the V10 motors to the V8 in 2006, he has been very beneficial to be able to roll with the TF106 in the tests of November and December. If he had been expected January, there would not be time to react and to change important components for the first race in time. We could confirm what already we had tried in dyno and generally, to take advantage of better the time. All the pilots have given to positive information as far as yield and reliability us, so we think that we have a competitive vehicle, although the development continues.”
Mike Gascoyne added: “The reason for which everybody improvement the car the later possible thing is for taking advantage of to the maximum the time in the wind tunnel for aerodynamic improvements. Our philosophy is to be able to unite all the advantages presenting/displaying the aerodynamic system of Bahrein the later possible thing, to take advantage of the time development and reliability rolling with the mechanical system, while we made sure that the aerodynamic development follows at full speed. If we had rolled with a new car in January, we could not have incorporated any of the things that we learned of the tests with Bridgestone in November. Now we can react and prepare the TF106B, considering which we have learned of the tests.”
By second consecutive season the Italian Jarno Trulli and the German Ralf Schumacher will be the ones in charge to try to make the objectives of Toyota reality.
“I hope that this us of an advantage for this year”, Trulli says. “We cannot say that we are going to be the best ones, but is no doubt that we will be preparations with the new car as far as kilometrage and experience very well. We have tried to solve all the problems and to prepare us for the first race. We are doing now it very well, although still it is much work to do later until the first test and. I feel like optimist.”
“There is no doubt that still it is in a moment, but I feel very well with the car”, explained Schumacher. “The power is less, but it continues having a very pleasant motor pair. I am contented also with the new Bridgestone tires, but we have a complete program of preseason tests to continue improving our single-seater. It is a calendar tightened, by far work to do before the first race, but that is it will so soon benefit what us to in motion salary with the car. We learned the past year and already we saw the benefits. It helped us much in the first races and that is what we want to return to do.”
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