‘Two more years’ for Toyota F1 success - boss
01-02-08, 06:48 AM
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‘Two more years’ for Toyota F1 success - boss
‘Two more years’ for Toyota F1 success - boss
Posted on Monday 31 December 2007
Team principal Tadashi Yamashina says he has been given two more years to deliver the goods for Toyota in formula one. The Japanese took the reigns of the struggling Cologne based team earlier this year, following a half decade of underperformance despite Toyota’s top annual budget. “(For Toyota) to become stronger it is more important to improve the level of organisation in general rather than to rely on the power of one person,” he said in Toyota’s latest Motorsports Annual Report.
“My job is to mobilise the resources to achieve that. I have been given two more years.
“So, we will work and fight to make sure we prove ourselves in the 2008 season,” Yamashina added.
Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher amassed just 13 points in 2007, with a highest finish in a grand prix of just sixth.
Toyota will launch the TF107’s successor, to be raced by Trulli and newly crowned GP2 champion Timo Glock next year, on January 10.
Yamashina said: “This year’s experience brought home to me the fact that we have lot of work to do.
“We need to continue to push hard to arrive at the top.
“Our goal at the beginning of the year was to lead the second group and gradually reduce the gap between us and the two top teams, but in the end it was proved that we had been too optimistic,” he admitted.
“We studied our performances in 2007 and we believe we have found areas where we have to improve. We expect more from the aerodynamic side and also from an operational side but I am optimistic that the team knows what needs to be done to improve our performance.” (GMM)
Posted on Monday 31 December 2007
Team principal Tadashi Yamashina says he has been given two more years to deliver the goods for Toyota in formula one. The Japanese took the reigns of the struggling Cologne based team earlier this year, following a half decade of underperformance despite Toyota’s top annual budget. “(For Toyota) to become stronger it is more important to improve the level of organisation in general rather than to rely on the power of one person,” he said in Toyota’s latest Motorsports Annual Report.
“My job is to mobilise the resources to achieve that. I have been given two more years.
“So, we will work and fight to make sure we prove ourselves in the 2008 season,” Yamashina added.
Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher amassed just 13 points in 2007, with a highest finish in a grand prix of just sixth.
Toyota will launch the TF107’s successor, to be raced by Trulli and newly crowned GP2 champion Timo Glock next year, on January 10.
Yamashina said: “This year’s experience brought home to me the fact that we have lot of work to do.
“We need to continue to push hard to arrive at the top.
“Our goal at the beginning of the year was to lead the second group and gradually reduce the gap between us and the two top teams, but in the end it was proved that we had been too optimistic,” he admitted.
“We studied our performances in 2007 and we believe we have found areas where we have to improve. We expect more from the aerodynamic side and also from an operational side but I am optimistic that the team knows what needs to be done to improve our performance.” (GMM)
01-02-08, 02:37 PM
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I really hope they make a reasonable improvement, all that money spent and nothing to show for it.
I commend them for competing but they need some wins. F1 is the PREMIER auto sport and winning produces a big plus for your company.
The other odd thing is with say Ferrrai, you know the learnings from F1 go into the cars. With Toyota, where do they go, the Highlander?
I commend them for competing but they need some wins. F1 is the PREMIER auto sport and winning produces a big plus for your company.
The other odd thing is with say Ferrrai, you know the learnings from F1 go into the cars. With Toyota, where do they go, the Highlander?
01-02-08, 02:41 PM
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You could say the same thing about a slew of F1 teams which don't have any cars using F1 or F1-derived technology. The LF-A's V10 has long been announced as being derived from the last-gen F1 V10s, though.
01-02-08, 03:44 PM
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Two years and then what? Will they just fire him and give the next guy two more years or will they pull out of F1? That wasn't made clear. If they give him two years and he doesn't come through, changing heads yet again isn't going to do anything. They need consistency, and if you keep firing people you wont get it.
01-02-08, 03:45 PM
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Oh and correct me if I'm wrong but I believe F1 used to use V-10s until last year, when they switched to V-8s.
The NSX and LFA are taking so long to produce, F1 switched engines, lol
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01-02-08, 03:56 PM
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Two years and then what? Will they just fire him and give the next guy two more years or will they pull out of F1? That wasn't made clear. If they give him two years and he doesn't come through, changing heads yet again isn't going to do anything. They need consistency, and if you keep firing people you wont get it.
I'd much rather have the old derived V10 than a V8, though, not to mention there's been so much development done on that V10 already.
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Two years and then what? Will they just fire him and give the next guy two more years or will they pull out of F1? That wasn't made clear. If they give him two years and he doesn't come through, changing heads yet again isn't going to do anything. They need consistency, and if you keep firing people you wont get it.
Toyota also had a rough go for their first year in NASCAR but there was definite improvement by the end of the year. I am not sure how far away they are from a Cup win but it wouldn't surprise me to see at least one this year. But then, the structure is very different between the manufacturer and the teams in NASCAR compared to running your own team in F1. Most of the opinion seems to be that this is just preparing for the F1 effort to be clobbered in that two year time frame. Who knows whether success in NASCAR helps or hurts the prospects for Toyota supporting F1?
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toyota has never been very good at ECU's compared to Honda and BMW IMO
so maybe the new rule of standardized ECU's this year will bring some hope to Toyota?
so maybe the new rule of standardized ECU's this year will bring some hope to Toyota?
01-02-08, 08:04 PM
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There is no way Toyota is winning a F1 race this year unless Ferrari, Mclaren, BMW and Renault are all disqualified in one single race for some stupid reason. Four Toyota drivers had combined one random 3rd place finish out of some 67 starts. You need to learn how to walk before you can run.
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