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Toyota F1

Toyota
Full name Panasonic Toyota Racing
Base Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Team principal Tsutomu Tomita
Technical director Mike Gascoyne
Race drivers 16. Jarno Trulli
17. Ralf Schumacher
Test drivers Olivier Panis
Ricardo Zonta
Chassis Toyota TF105
Engine Toyota RVX-05
Tyres Michelin
Debut 2002 Australian Grand Prix
Races competed 52
Constructors' Championships none
Drivers' Championships none
Race victories none
Pole positions none
Fastest laps {{{Fastest_laps}}}
2004 position 8th (9 points)
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Olivier Panis driving for the Toyota F1 team at the 2004 United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis

Toyota has participated in the Formula One World Championship since 2002. Despite investing huge amounts of money into the project, the team's performance has so far been mediocre.

In 2004, top designer Mike Gascoyne was hired. It was expected that this would lead to an upturn in the team's fortunes, but this has failed to materialise thus far. Toyota ended the 2004 season with a driver lineup of Jarno Trulli and Ricardo Zonta; Cristiano da Matta was sacked midway through the year after failing to live up to his initial promise.

Trulli is joined by veteran Ralf Schumacher for 2005. 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.

An early Toyota F1 car on display.


Complete Formula One results

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Yr Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
2002 A.McNish, M.Salo AUS MAL BRA SAN SPA AUT MON CAN EUR GBR FRA DEU HUN BEL ITA USA JPN    
2003 C.daMatta, O.Panis AUS MAL BRA SAN SPA AUT MON CAN EUR FRA GBR DEU HUN ITA USA JPN      
2004 J.Trulli, R.Zonta AUS MAL BAH SAN SPA MON EUR CAN USA FRA GBR DEU HUN BEL ITA CHN JPN BRA  
2005 J.Trulli, R.Schumacher AUS MAL BAH SAN SPA MON EUR CAN USA FRA GBR DEU HUN TUR ITA BEL BRA JPN CHN

External link

Toyota F1's official website


Constructors and drivers competing in the 2005 Formula One championship:
Ferrari BAR Renault Williams McLaren Sauber Red Bull Toyota Jordan Minardi
1 M Schumacher
2 Barrichello
3 Button
4 Sato
5 Alonso
6 Fisichella
7 Webber
8 Heidfeld
9 Räikkönen
10 Montoya
11 Villeneuve
12 Massa
14 Coulthard
15 Liuzzi
16 Trulli
17 R Schumacher
18 Monteiro
19 Karthikeyan
20 Friesacher
21 Albers







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