Williams ends engine partnership with Toyota

Williams F1 have today confirmed that it will end its partnership deal with Toyota at the end of 2009. The announcement was anticipated for a while but has now been made official. The new engine supplier of the team will be announced later on.

Frank Williams, Team Principal, said “At a time of great difficulty for us as a team, Toyota stepped forward and agreed to supply us with engines for 2007 through to the end of 2009. Toyota has been a very decent partner who have always respected our independence and provided us with a first-rate technical product. We are proud that we have been able to work with such a great company and we are grateful to the team in Cologne for their support. I would like to single out for our thanks the Toyota engineers and technicians who have worked within our race team tirelessly for the past three years.”

The team also announced that it will announce its new engine partner for 2010 "in due course". It is widely expected that this will be either the equalised Cosworth engines or a new partnership with Renault.