All Posts Tagged With: "Toyota"
Sauber Secure Entry, Renault Discuss Future, Toyota Negotiate Settlement
Peter Sauber, who recently bought back his old team from BMW, has been granted the final entry for the 2010 Formula One season. The news ends months of speculation after BMW decided to withdraw earlier in the year. A deal with Qadbak fell through and the future of the team appeared to be in jeopardy. [...]
Toyota Withdraw From Formula One With Immediate Effect
In a press conference held earlier this morning in Tokyo, Toyota announced it is to withdraw its participation in Formula One with immediate effect. The news comes after much speculation all year that the Japanese marque could be another to succumb to the economic crisis, similar in vein to Honda and BMW. Although not necessarily [...]
Why Might Williams & Red Bull Be Looking For New Engine Suppliers?
Not only does August mark the start of the driver silly-season, but also that of the engines. The teams who are supplied with power-plants – the non-manufacturers – are looking carefully at their contracts and wondering if the grass is any greener elsewhere. Two teams that have come into the frame over the past weekend [...]
Budget Cap Causes Consternation Among The Teams
The intended introduction of a voluntary £40m budget cap has caused a lot of teams to think long and hard about the future of Formula One and their involvement in it. Since the FIA announced the idea, the plan has undergone some tweaking, the original cap being set at £30m and including everything bar the [...]
Bahrain 2009: Toyota Lock Out Front Row With Trulli On Pole
The 2009 Formula One championship is getting increasingly interesting as each session of each weekend passes. Initially it was Brawn that surprised, promptly followed by the pace of the Red Bull cars in round three. And now we have another candidate for victory in the shape of Toyota driver Jarno Trulli. The Japanese team didn’t [...]
The Two Sides Of The Diffuser Debate
As always in Formula One, not everything is as black and white as it perhaps should be, and the diffuser issue that has embroiled the sport since even before the first race of the season is a classic example of this. Brawn, Williams and Toyota have all worked to within a loophole of the rules [...]
Malaysia 2009: BMW Lodge Diffuser Protest As Formality
BMW have joined Ferrari, Red Bull Racing and Renault in protesting the diffusers of the Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars. The lodging of the protest is just a formality, as the teams expected (and received) the same answer as they did in Melbourne last weekend. The reason for protesting is just to ensure that the [...]
Lewis Hamilton Stripped Of Australian Grand Prix Podium
As if Formula One couldn’t get any more controversial and political, Lewis Hamilton has now been stripped of his third place in the Australian Grand Prix last weekend. The news came after the investigation into the incident involving the McLaren driver and Toyota’s Jarno Trulli was reopened in Malaysia, the venue for this weekend’s grand [...]
