Look at Honda, Toyota, Subaru and Suzuki over the last 10-15 years in F1, WRC, WEC and WTCC. It has been nothing but flops, flops and yet more flops.
Japan today, is so far away from being cutting edge and Toyota coming back to the WRC will be just another flop. It's the European car makers that dominates motorsport today and will continue to do so.
When you think about it, when Subaru, Toyota and Mitsubishi were successful in WRC the cars were developed in Europe, so there is hope for the new Toyota project yet..
Well Ogier won last year in Finland, of course a lot of it was to do with the main contenders crashing out but I remember that he actually had very good pace on the event.
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Well Ogier won last year in Finland, of course a lot of it was to do with the main contenders crashing out but I remember that he actually had very good pace on the event.
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