Toyota has announced that they will reveal their 2008 car, the TF108, on January 10 at the Japanese team’s technical centre in Cologne, Germany. At this special event will attend the squad’s drivers and members of the team’s management.
Toyota endured a tough 2007 campaign, ending the season sixth in the standings, after scoring 13 world championship points.
Toyota Motorsport GmbH has confirmed that Timo Glock will race for Panasonic Toyota Racing in 2008.
Timo, the reigning GP2 Series champion, has signed a multi-year contract and the team hopes an agreement can be reached with
BMW Sauber to allow him to test at Jerez on December 4-6.
Chairman and Team Principal Tadashi Yamashina said: “It is with great pleasure that we confirm Timo Glock will race for Panasonic Toyota Racing in 2008. I am convinced Timo has the potential to help this (...
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Toyota has confirmed that Kamui Kobayashi, a product of the Toyota Young Drivers Programme (TDP), will step up to Formula 1 in 2008 as Panasonic Toyota Racing’s third driver.
Kamui, 21, has been associated with Toyota since 2001, and he first raced single-seaters in the Esso Formula Toyota Championship in Japan in 2002.
Panasonic Toyota Racing Chairman and Team Principal Tadashi Yamashina said: “I am very pleased to welcome Kamui to the team. He tested the car last winter and (...)
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The final day of testing at Barcelona marked Franck Montagny’s last day behind the wheel as third driver for Panasonic Toyota Racing. The Frenchman will not drive for the team at Jerez in December so test team members took the opportunity to say goodbye to a popular third driver at Barcelona today.
Franck has made a very positive contribution since joining the team officially at the beginning of the year and yesterday morning he was presented with a shirt signed by members of the (...)
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After leaving from McLaren last week, Fernando Alonso hasn’t decided yet with which team he will sign for next season. Alonso wants a short contract, just for one year, thinking that if in 2009 he could have a better alternative like
BMW or
Ferrari he could be free to sign with one of them.
Alonso’s options for 2008 are Renault, Red Bull Racing and
Toyota. Red Bull Racing and Toyota are willing to offer him a one year deal with options to renew, while Renault wants a two (.
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After three years with the Japanese squad, Ralf Schumacher completed his last race with them in 11th place, but before that his colleagues gathered together in the pits to present him with a rear wing end plate, signed by the team, as well as a 10kg cake.
Chairman and Toyota team principal Tadashi Yamashina said: “I would like to thank Ralf for his contribution to the team. We have had some good times together, even though we have not had the results we all expected. Ralf brought (...)
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The new TF107 challenger was unveiled at the Expo XXI conference centre in Cologne by Panasonic Toyota Racing.Toyota will race with the same engine, tire partner and the same 2 drivers.
That unique degree of continuity will enable the team to hit the ground running and build on the experience gained over recent seasons.
"Our fundamental challenge this year is to get the first victory," says Chairman and Team Principal Tsutomu Tomita.
"We announced that a year ago, but we failed to (...)
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Toyota, admitted the fact that it is interested in bringing the double world champion Fernando Alonso to its Formula 1 team.
As we know, due to the conflict with his team mate Lewis Hamilton, Alonso is unhappy at
Mclaren and everybody says that he is considering to race for another team in the 2008 season.
Toyota plans to offer $40 million to obtain Fernando’s signature on the contract. John Howett, Toyota’s president said that they are also considering to bring Ralf Schumacher to their (...
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Jason Leffler gave the Camry its first-ever win in NASCAR competition when he took the lead with three laps to go en route to the checkered flag in Saturday night’s NASCAR Busch Series (NBS) race at O’Reilly Raceway Park (ORP) outside Indianapolis. When he was asked what he feels after this victory Leffler said that he is very excited to have his name going into the record books as Toyota’s first Busch Series winner. And he might be, maybe not in Guinness World Records book but he will sure (...)
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Panasonic Toyota Racing hit the track at the Nürburgring today with two 90-minute practice sessions for the European Grand Prix. With the team’s factory only an hour’s drive away in Cologne, Toyota is the local team and both Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli have plenty of experience of the Nürburgring.
After the early-morning mist cleared, first practice began with track temperatures of 26°C and both drivers completed over half a race distance, with Ralf setting the 7th fastest time, and Jarno (...)
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