THE KALITTA TOYOTA
The Toyota body is undergoing some minor repairs around the header cutout after the late night session on Tuesday. A fuel delivery gremlin in the car seems to be limiting the chances for testing with the Toyota body and may bring up doubts whether it will make its debut in Indy after all.
The Toyota body is undergoing some minor repairs around the header cutout after the late night session on Tuesday. A fuel delivery gremlin in the car seems to be limiting the chances for testing with the Toyota body and may bring up doubts whether it will make its debut in Indy after all. - Roger Richards
FROM YESTERDAY'S INDY TEST NOTES - The big news
at the first day of the pre US Nationals test at O'Reilly Raceway Park was the
debut of the new Toyota Solara body on Scott Kalitta's Funny Car. The shell was
so new that Murf McKinney was still finalizing some of the body mounting at the
track early in the afternoon. As was the previous Toyota effort, the Celica
initially campaigned by Alan Johnson, the new body is radically different to
those run by the opposition. This time around the body has a much sharper
transition from the horizontal to vertical surfaces although it retains the laid
forward rear face of the body under the rear spoiler. The front end is extremely
swoopy compared with the current domestic offerings from the "big three". When
Scott Kalitta went to the line for the car's first run during the final round of
runs Johnson was very much in evidence ont he line with the Kalitta team as once
again he is the prime mover behind the project. Scott smoked the tires early but
look for more from thi!
s car in the near future. - Keith Burgin