It seems much the same happened at Toyota. The manner in which Toyota exited the sport within days of the 2009 season ending is a reminder of how close the former Honda team came to disappearing 12 months earlier.Īs Ross Brawn explained afterwards, the company’s management hadn’t given any thought to passing the team on to another owner and had to be persuaded to accept Brawn’s management buy-out. It’s doubtful that, even if another team acquired the intellectual property rights to use the car in 2011, it could be suitably modified to be competitive following further changes to F1’s technical regulations. Who knows how competitive the TF110 would have been. Two examples of the TF110 were built despite the team’s decision at the end of last year not to contest the 2010 championship.Īccording to the magazine the design features “one of the most extreme diffusers seen yet” and a ride height adjustment system. Toyota’s 11th hour exit from Formula 1 at the end of 2009 means this car will never compete in F1. and looks outwardly similar to the BMW Sauber C29 with a high, long nose. The TF110 has been revealed and inspected by Racecar Engineering.

The car Toyota would have raced in F1 this year has been driven by Kazuki Nakajima in Cologne.

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