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Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k
If Toyota is trying to get real life durability testing by competing in this race, why would they remove more from the car (weight wise) than they had to? Their purpose wasn't to win, it to was acquire data. Which means they would leave as much stock as they could.
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They don't need (and in some cases aren't allowed) full interiors in order to get engine/transmission/drivetrain durability test data. For all we know the motor in the FT86 race car is bone stock while you can be sure that the other cars in this race are built to the fullest extent of the rule book (boring engines out to the thousanth of an inch allowed). Also the slicks they were running (they did not race on the RE11 like someone posted [might have been in one of the other threads]) are super sticky and will induce a great deal of extra stress on axles, diff, gears, clutch, suspension, etc.