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[-] SouthernCross@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Brown is a very bright CEO. Toyota is proven time and time again as a formidable manufacturer. It would be amazing to see Toyota making it's return into F1.

[-] echelon7@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

When Toyota was in F1 they had the largest budget of all the teams. Too bad they can't bring that kind of fire power to the grid with the cost cap!

[-] echelon7@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

It would be pretty amazing to see Toyota back on the grid along with the addition of Audi and Ford! We'd have a proper engine constructor battle going.

[-] chrisphero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Plus the benefits of basically making their own engine and develop it together with the car.

This is for sure the next logical step, like aston is doing with honda.

The future looks bright.

[-] echelon7@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Irony is they tried with Honda to rebuild their glory days together and it failed miserably. I hope Honda has the same level of success with AM that they are seeing with RB.

[-] chrisphero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that’s true. I think that also Honda was not completely ready and the failure with mclaren helped them to become what they are now.

It’s going the be really interesting to see what will happen to AM… how long will stroll be in the seat if he keeps underperforming? Will alonso stay?

[-] HankMardukas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's dream big here for a second.

Mercedes

Ferrari

Alpine/Renault

RBPT/Honda

Audi/Porsche

Toyota

Ford

Cadillac/GM

And who else? Cosworth? BMW? Fiat/Dodge/Chrysler/Maserati?

[-] lou_profile@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It seems to me this might be just a data sharing program, as to what I learned from the WEC community on reddit. McLaren used to use Toyota's wind tunnel which I think is in Cologne. McLaren might not be using that wind tunnel anymore and in return they take Rio as a reserve driver to still have some data shared between the two manufacturers.

[-] HankMardukas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

McLaren just posted on insta about a new wind tunnel....

[-] lou_profile@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And the link also mentions what I said in my comment. I was lazy and did not read it. My bad

[-] HankMardukas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, I think you're right on and that you guessed it perfectly!

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