A l’initiative de Total-Elf, partenaire de ING RenaultF1 Team et Citroën Sport, Sébastien Loeb, récemment vainqueur d’une quatrième couronne mondiale en WRC, et Heikki Kovalainen ont échangé leur baquet le temps d’une journée sur le circuit du Castellet, dans le sud de la France.
Une étude des audiences des courses de F1 montre que la discipline reine de l'automobile fait toujours rêver.
PanasonicToyota Racing alignait un line-up de pilotes inédit aujourd’hui sur le circuit de Jerez de la Frontera, pour sa première journée d’essais de la semaine.
Fresh from its points finish in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, the PanasonicToyota Racing team is flying south on the short trip from Montreal to Indianapolis for the second race of the North American double-header.
PanasonicToyota Racing began its preparations for the Canadian Grand Prix with a disrupted Friday of practice under sunny skies at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
The Toyota Land Cruiser, which was introduced in 1951, was a breakthrough in four-wheel-drive technology but the Toyota Crown (1955) and the smaller Toyota Corona (1957) were the models which re-established the company.
Toyota has always been cautious in its approach to racing, preferring to leave competition to specialist companies and to local Toyota dealer networks.
Early attempts to lure Toyota into F1, notably by TOM'S in 1992, failed although Toyota was rumored to be keeping a very close eye on Yamaha's F1 program in the late 1990s.
The start of the 2005 Formula One season has been extremely promising for Toyota, with Trulli earning the team's first ever podium finish at the 2005 Malaysian Grand Prix, then repeating the feat in Bahrain.
Toyota has been very active since the launch of its test car in March 2001, visiting 11 of the current F1 venues worldwide, in addition to its testing base at Paul Ricard in France.
Toyota is the first new F1 entrant since 1979 to produce its own chassis and engine under the one roof.
Toyota'sV10 engine project is led by the highly experienced Luca Marmorini, an Italian who came to Cologne after nine years at Ferrari.
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Toyota insist they can win their first Grand Prix in 2007 as they unveil their new Formula One car.
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Toyota Racing waved au revoir to Olivier Panis last year but the French Tricolor will still be flying on the car thanks to the arrival of Franck Montagny, who is on track in the n...
F1 enthusiasts were presented with a unique chance to view and experience an F1 car up-close as PanasonicToyota Racing driver Jarno Trulli drove 6 laps on a track which wound its way from Rautatientori Square up to Kaisaniemenkatu and with a 90-degree turn down Vilhonkatu back to Rautatientori Square.
The day was packed with roaring sounds of the F1 engine, awe-inspiring acceleration and the chance to watch the pit activities from up-close.
One of the most popular activities was the ToyotaPit Stop Challenge, where more than 1000 fans put together teams to compete against each other to see who could change the tyres of an F1 car the fastest.
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F1PanasonicToyota Racing unveiled its new TF107 challenger in Cologne on Friday 12 January, prior to embarking on an intensive test programme in preparation for the first Grand Prix of the season in Australia on 18 March.
Toyota is the only one of the 11 F1 teams to go into the new season with the same engine, the same tyre partner, and the same two race drivers.
Toyota has ambitious goals in Formula 1 and in 2007 the objective is to win.
The ToyotaF1 TF106 has been launched at a Toyota manufacturing factory in Valenciennes, France.
The factory builds Toyota's Yaris car and was chosen to underscore the close relationship between Toyota'sF1 and consumer automobile production teams, although I personally see absolutely nothing in common with the TF106 race car and the Yaris, except the fact that it shares four wheels and a steering wheel.
It would be been more believable if Toyota decided to showcase their new Lexus GS or IS or maybe offer a glimpse of the much rumored next generation Toyota Supra.
Toyota will be out to deliver results in the 2007 Formula One season after failing to deliver on last year's promise to claim their first GP victory.
At the car launch, Toyota President John Howett said the team was united in their quest for ongoing success in Formula One racing.
Experienced F1 campaigners Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli will both be out to steer the team in the right direction with the former now given an opportunity to emerge from the shadow of his retired brother and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.
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Dopo 5 anni di Formula 1 e molti di più all’interno dei programmi sportivi della Toyota, Tsutomu Tomita lascia il comando della sede di Colonia per tornarsene (a riposo?) in Giappone.
Panasonic Toyota Racing left Spa-Francorchamps disappointed today after Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli finished 10th and 11th respectively in the Belgian Grand Prix, the final...
Panasonic Toyota Racing approaches the Belgian Grand Prix with optimism after both Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher qualified in the top half of the grid at Spa-Francorchamps today.
Panasonic Toyota Racing was back at the historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the Ardennes Forest today to begin practice for the Belgian Grand Prix in positive fashion.
Toyota made dozens of aero modifications to its TF106 challenger ahead of the Bahrain season opener.
In keeping with its philosophy of "continuous improvement", the ToyotaFormula 1 team is set to introduce a heavily revised version of its new TF106 car tomorrow, little over two months after the original car's track debut.
The new aero package that will hit the Vallelunga circuit in Italy on Tuesday is expected to be raced at the Bahrain season opener on March 12.
Da Matta kept an eye on what Toyota was doing in its first season of F1 last year, but the intense CART schedule kept him so busy he didn't have a lot of time to keep track of what was happening.
"I followed it (Toyota'sF1 effort) last year," he said, "but I didn't follow it very close because in America it is very difficult to follow F1, and in the CART series from June until the end of September you don't have time to do anything.
Toyota proved last year when it dismissed both Mika Salo and Allan McNish that it is uncompromising when it comes to assessing the performances of its drivers.
The information technology giant agreed to continue its involvement with the F1 team just days before the final Grand Prix of the 2003 season in Japan.
John Howett, president of Toyota Motorsport, commented: "We are very pleased to extend the already fruitful partnership with EMC.
Takashi Nakayama, president and representative director of EMC Japan added: "EMC is very happy to be able to continue its cooperation with the PanasonicToyota Racing team as a technical partner.
However, Toyota's sporting influence has spread much further afield as it has built an impressive participation catalogue, so it was only natural that the company should finally decide to participate in the most prestigious of all motorsport events, the Formula One World Championship.
Toyota's motorsport heritage has demonstrated that with each new level of competition, it is always willing to take on a new challenge, and consequently much of 2001 was spent preparing for the team's F1 debut in 2002.
Should Toyota fail to improve in 2007, the most likely scenario is that the company will reconsider its future as a team and most likely seek a deal with Williams, the last remaining privateer in F1.
In NASCAR, Toyota is continuing its support for the teams driving its U.S.-market Toyota Tundra pickup truck, which debuted in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2004 and garnered nine victories in 2005.
Toyota will also continue sponsoring one-make races in Japan, including the ESSOFormulaToyota Series, which is an entry-level formulacategory, and the Netz Cup races (Vitz Street-legal Series and Altezza Series).
The PanasonicToyota Racing team, competing in 2006 for its fifth consecutive year as a full-constructor team, is aiming to capture its first victory and to continue winning points.