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Yeah, sucks for the Vette. I'm wondering if the puncture for the #63 was from the gravel trip or if the argy bargy with the AM led to it and the gravel trap crossing was the first sign of the tyre going down.
Office is on airport grounds. Most NWS offices are, that or with universities. Because the airport is federal land we have no rent.
I'm hoping I get to see the 29 take off. Sounded so awesome when it was taxiing. I heard it come in when it was landing but wasn't outside to see it fly.
I seent one of dem flying pretty low overhead last year. Probably took off from Castle AFB or the local airport, but IDK if they can take off from our runway.
The Wilmington runways are actually rather long. 1 is just over 8k ft the other is 7754 ft. ILM was an alternate landing site for shuttle if issues developed within 30 seconds of launch.
29 just took off. Jerkwads in the tower had them use the far runway (near the tower) despite the wind blowing almost directly up the the runway closer to us. Bastards.
It was good but it could have been so much better. Because they used the far runway and I had another plane starting up near where I was it wasn't pure or super loud. I could clearly hear it from the far end of the far runway when it throttled up despite a plane running near me and a 12 kt wind working to push the sound away.
This trainer took off from the close runway yesterday and was really loud. I can only imagine what the 29 wood have sounded like.
A peculiar sequence of events contrived to send the #7 TS050 into retirement as Toyota found new and ever-more-bizarre ways of losing this event.
It all started with a safety car, an opportunity Toyota used to bring the car in to swap Conway for Kobayashi. The Japanese driver was stopped by a marshal and the red light at the end of the pitlane as he tried to rejoin the race, only to be waved onto the track.
Toyota instructed him to stop immediately and he did so just beyond the pitlane exit. One of the safety cars was coming and the team wanted to avoid a penalty. But when the crocodile had passed, Kobayashi rooted the clutch trying to get going again.
The modern breed of P1 prototypes leave their pitstalls in electric mode. Their combustion engines kick in as they rejoin the track proper and, in the case of the Toyota, the clutch is not designed to deal with the torque and power of its twin-turbo 2.4-litre V6 from standstill.
"Kamui was put in a position where he had to use the clutch with the combustion engine to start," explained Toyota Motorsport GmbH technical director Pascal Vasselon. "The clutch is not built for this. There was a succession of two or three [failed] starts, and the clutch was done."
according to random internet pundit, CraigMac1000:
Originally Posted by CraigMac1000
Kobayashi was actually behind the safety cue for a whole lap with the clutch slipping problem and came back around past pit entry once and did not go into the pits at that time when the problem was happening. Kobayashi then got picked up on the LIVE feed just as he went across the start/finish line again and the course went green at that time. Kobayashi went around again thinking he could fix the problem from the drivers seat. He went onto his second lap with the problem persisting and on that lap he stopped. Go back and look at the replay and you'll see the problem happened immediately after exiting the pit lane under the safety car period.. Kobayashi should have entered the pits when he had the chance the first time by under the safety car, but for some reason he did not do so at that time.
If that true, about not wanting a penalty, just take the damn penalty. Might not even get 1 if the marshal did indeed wave them by. They had to know what was going to have to happen to the clutch, no?
Toyota has had bad luck before but I don't consider this bad luck. This is stupidity, if what has been said is true (is questionable at this point).
I'm not doubting the source. I'm just saying all of the details of events like this usually take a few weeks to filter out. There could be some missing data we don't have yet.
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