It is now official that Toyota is leaving the Formula One paddock, with the Japanese car giant announcing the sad news this Wednesday morning. The rumour had been going around for some time now, but only until the Japanese press made unofficial declarations did it become realistic. And as expected the faltering economy is to blame for this decision.
depends if they bring in the rule to limit everyone to the same power output.gator wrote:What do you do when you spend more and produce less time and again? Look around and realize, OSB... Other Sports Beckon. They do well in other forms of motorsports. I mean, wouldn't you ditch the ugly stepchild and focus on the breadwinners if it came down to it?
Sad to see another constructor go only to be replaced by another customer team, but maybe the new teams can do a better job with less? Some have to step aside for others to have a chance...
Who here thinks that the anyone would actually use the Toyota engine if given the opportunity next year? My guess is that even if the engine program stuck around, they would practically have to give them away to the customer teams. But again, what does everyone here think?
And while all this was going on I got a call at some point from a little bird in Cologne who told me that the staff of Toyota have been told that their entry has been sold on to someone else – and that some of them are going to be asked to stay on to build and run their car for a man called Stefan from Serbia. Apparently the government down there is paying for “Stefan Grand Prix” to become a reality.
called "The I-would-like-to-use-Ciro-as-a-punching-bag thread"? Although the criticism is completely off topic in this thread I will briefly comment on it. You can transfer it to the thread where it belongs if you care to keep the discussion of the issue coherent.Ciro Pabón wrote:BTW, I agree with some members on the idea that invoking a "secret" report to give credibility to my posts will not give them any credibility, but, hey, that's me again.
http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=352300Haug is confident that with the carmaker now set to benefit from a share of commercial revenues, and the effects of the resource restriction plans agreed between teams from 2010, its target will be achievable.
“We have much, much better circumstances these days in Formula 1. A team gets more money from the commercial rights holder, there is a new agreement in place obviously, so this limits the spend of the teams and we will spend much less money than we used to do in the past.
I hope these quotations make it clear that an RRA does in fact exist. Before you make such unfounded and uninformed criticism as above you better read what was posted in the other thread. I think that you will have to make some corrections to your above post if you do.Brawn Grand Prix offers an altogether different explanation: "The background to this decision are the new terms and conditions for Formula 1. The 'Resource Restrictions' (the new name for Max Mosley's budget cap) set by FOTA and FIA effectively limit expenditure for the design, construction and running of the racing cars. In addition, there will be a significantly higher income available for a Formula 1 team generated by the commercial rights of the racing series following the signing of the new Concorde Agreement."
