Siyonara Toyota?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64831

Seriously, why stay at the back in F1 and be sniggered at when you can enter Le Mans with a hybrid?

[DonJippo]

Toyota is not going anywhere from F1, they will stay atleast untill 2012.

[FIA]

In 05 they're were decent

[Osella]

Sure, enter Le Mans...again...yet again something else you've never won!
Toyota;

they inevitably win in every form of motorsport they enter...

Toyota; they inevitably fail in every form of motorsport they enter...

[taffy]

Toyota is not going anywhere from F1, they will stay atleast untill 2012.

You really think so, I got to say that if they dont pick up in the next season or two they will be gone.. They have put millions in and got nothing back.

[jens]

Sure, enter Le Mans...again...yet again something else you've never won!
Toyota;
Toyota; they inevitably fail in every form of motorsport they enter...

Why do you say so? They won in WRC.
Second position in 1999 Le Mans wasn't exactly a "failure" either and they were close to winning in 1998.

[Cozzie]

I think a lot depends on how the NASCAR program goes, if they can dominate NASCAR (and in testing they're looking good) we could see them out of F1 earlier than expected but if that fails also perhaps they'll hang around, after all how much can you succeed with Ralf and Trulli! With all their money it surprises me that they have never hired an A Grade driver....

[trumperZ06]

Sure, enter Le Mans...again...yet again something else you've never won!
Toyota;
Toyota; they inevitably fail in every form of motorsport they enter...

Hhmm.... you really believe this ???

You shouldn't make such gross generalizations, without doing your...

"Homework" !!!

Hint.... try Google.

Toyota's been involved in racing, from Rally, to Sports Cars, to Indy Cars, to Formula One and NA$CAR, over the past 50 years. I'm sure they've had a win or two somewhere in one of those series... !!!

[jens]

With all their money it surprises me that they have never hired an A Grade driver....

How many drivers are there on the grid, to who Toyota hasn't made an offer? I think they are in minority. So it's not Toyota's fault that they haven't tried to hire an A-grade driver, but all of them have refused to join Toyota.

[Malbec]

Toyota's been involved in racing, from Rally, to Sports Cars, to Indy Cars, to Formula One and NA$CAR, over the past 50 years.

NASCAR and Indy excepted all those formulae were entered by Toyota Motorsport GMBH based in Cologne, Germany. Winning with a hybrid at Le Mans isn't going to be easy so who is going to do it for them? Toyota Motorsport GMBH are now known as Toyota F1, are they going to have two major campaigns on the go at one time or is someone else going to take over the Le Mans project?

Alternatively Toyota's idea could make eminent sense. With development in F1 severely restricted in the future Toyota and everyone else may find they have R/D and production capacity thats sitting around unused. Making that unused capacity work on a Le Mans car may be a good idea.