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It’s official. Toyota have announced their departure from Formula One, effective immediately. In a statement, the company said, “Toyota Motor Corporation announces it plans to withdraw from the FIA Formula 1 world championship at the end of the 2009 season. TMC, which had viewed its participation in F1 as contributing to the prosperity of automotive culture, remained dedicated to competing [...] Is it just me, or is this a triple A-grade piece of waffle from USF1 principal Peter Windsor? “Because of all the time we’ve lost, our ambition to run two young Americans is looking more difficult. I’m still hoping we’ll be able to run one American, but that’s a tall order because there aren’t many Americans [...] …to know we might never need to bother covering this FOTA/FIA split again. If you wanted to briefly summarise – and you might not but, boy, you’d better believe I do – you’d say that FOTA have got everything they wanted. There will be no budget cap, with costs being brought down incrementally as FOTA suggested. [...] Hands up all of those among us who expected Mosley and FOTA, at 11.55 pm on Friday night, to do their ‘peace in our time’ routine? Thought as much. How many genuinely thought there’d be a FOTA breakaway series in 2010? Suddenly the 2010 Formula One entry list reads something like Williams, Force India, Manor, Campos, [...] Well, it was worth wildly speculating, wasn’t it? If we must sit through tedious power games we may as well have some fun with them. Today, Lola announced the withdrawal of their application to enter the 2010 Formula One world championship. Having set up a new company separate of the main Lola Cars organisation that was [...] You’ll see more reasoned, well considered debates than FOTA vs FIA on the school playground, but at the end of it, those of us predicting that all the current manufacturers would stay in Formula One might look like planks. We’re still not going to go into the ins and outs of the FIA vs FOTA battle in a [...] The word coming from Maranello is that if the proposed rules for Formula One in 2010 are enforced, with teams given free reign to spend what they want within strict technical parameters or to develop what they want as long as they don’t spend more than $40 million a year, then Ferrari want no part [...] |
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