Toyota TF109

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lol - the much loved end plates have gone!
- Axle

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Metar
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One more in favour of the fins here. I just think teams need to integrate them better with the engine covers - the liveries need a redesign with them in mind. See how awful the Renault R28's livery expands into the sharkfin as an example of bad integration - it looks awfully tacked-on. The logos on the Toyota also seem to do that - just barely stretching onto the fin, leaving it mostly bare.


Also, god dammit those slicks look better used. I found the shiny glitzing examples on the launch cars terrible - but with this matte "finish" after a lap, they look so much better. :P

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majicmeow wrote:I find it funny that in the "TF109 build" video, the video actually starts out with a TF108.

Around the 58second mark, they "switch" it with a TF109 to finish it off.

hehe, sneaky buggers ;)
Whitch brings me to the question, are Toyota just running a modified TF108 tub for the TF109???

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Birel99
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http://www.f1today.nl/foto/5177/

The TF109 with a shark fin and new front wing!

Someone please feel free to turn that link into a picture :wink:

Regards,

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Roland Ehnström
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Damn that car is ugly! :wtf:

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Nebhotep
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Birel99
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Cheers Nebhotep!

Call me crazy but I dont think it looks that bad :oops:

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Roland Ehnström
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You're crazy. :)

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Birel99 wrote:Cheers Nebhotep!

Call me crazy but I dont think it looks that bad :oops:
Let me remind you
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Outrageous, but when it's surely the last of F1 Toyotas, cut them some slack to go out in their own fashion.
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Looks fine to me.

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Metar
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Birel99 wrote:Call me crazy but I dont think it looks that bad :oops:
I like this too. Looks quite sexy, actually, and I've never said that about a Toyota-coloured F1 car before.

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Oddly enough this car reminds me that Ralf biased TF106B and TF107 cars, hope it performs better. Lets all cross fingers for Toyota this year - seems like they need to show something strong this year in order to stay in F1!

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The more i look at that front wing it reminds me of the ugly FW26 front wing.

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ISLAMATRON
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anyone else notice the cascade wings added to the front wings, they werent there at launch, but a simple add on. there also seems like they added a cutout to bleed air from the the endplates back onto the wing.