Their purchase of the Toyota F1 assets were contingent on them getting entry into F1. Forgive me for saying this, but these Balkan were nothing but a bunch of con-artists. They had nothing but a letter from the Serbian tourism commission saying the team had their full support. Stefan was not never a serious candidate. If you read the current issue of F1-Racing, all the team had to show for was a half-finished nose cone.Īs for Stefan-GP, I tend to agree with Max Mosley and Luca di Montezemolo. It was reported that the main sponsor-to-be bailed out after seeing the team had no hope of making the grid at Bahrain. I think the problem with USF1 was a financial one. Read more: Toyota quits F1 after eight winless years The Toyota TF110 before its run You can buy the new issue of Racecar Engineering from Zinio here. Hopefully we’ll only have to wait until next year to see F1 get back to 26-car grids. It’s a pity to see an F1 car, built at considerable expense, sat idle when it could be competing. Recently former Toyota boss Tadashi Yamashina explained how the onset of the credit crunch hastened the team’s departure from Formula 1. Attempts by Zoran Stefanovich to use the cars to obtain an entry failed. While BMW also, though with some difficulty, passed ownership of their team back to Peter Sauber, Toyota cut and run and there was no going back. It seems much the same happened at Toyota.

The manner in which Toyota exited the sport within days of the 2009 season ending is a reminder of how close the former Honda team came to disappearing 12 months earlier.Īs Ross Brawn explained afterwards, the company’s management hadn’t given any thought to passing the team on to another owner and had to be persuaded to accept Brawn’s management buy-out. It’s doubtful that, even if another team acquired the intellectual property rights to use the car in 2011, it could be suitably modified to be competitive following further changes to F1’s technical regulations. Who knows how competitive the TF110 would have been. Two examples of the TF110 were built despite the team’s decision at the end of last year not to contest the 2010 championship.Īccording to the magazine the design features “one of the most extreme diffusers seen yet” and a ride height adjustment system. Toyota’s 11th hour exit from Formula 1 at the end of 2009 means this car will never compete in F1. and looks outwardly similar to the BMW Sauber C29 with a high, long nose. The TF110 has been revealed and inspected by Racecar Engineering. The car Toyota would have raced in F1 this year has been driven by Kazuki Nakajima in Cologne.

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