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Fans See Toyota's First F-1 Podium Finish Since 2005 As A Sign Future Success
Toyota's podium finish in the French Grand Prix will act as a spur to push the team to even better results over the rest of the season, claims technical chief Pascal Vasselon.

Jarno Trulli caused a surprise in Magny-Cours when he used an upgraded car to emerge as Ferrari's closest challenger - holding off McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica for third place.

That result, on the back of a mixed start to the campaign, is viewed by Vasselon as vital in helping lift the team's efforts to deliver even better results over the remainder of the campaign.

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Fans See Toyota's First F-1 Podium Finish Since 2005 As A Sign Future Success



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hatepussshatepusss - 6/24/2008 8:55:00 AM
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Cool...Congrats to the Toyota F1 Team!

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kpaxxkpaxx - 6/24/2008 9:09:08 AM
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Trulli is a good pilot but I think toyota was lucky this time. All the front runners were held back by penlaty or in crash situations leaving the front open for second rate teams like toyota. This is evident if you look at the finishing times. You can see Trulli was holding up most of the pack which is easy to do on a circuit which has little opportunity for passing.

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BremboBrembo - 6/24/2008 9:14:39 AM
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He said there were "incident involved." How is that lucky?


auto001auto001 - 6/24/2008 10:22:20 AM
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You remind me of a soccer fan of a losing team during World Cup... makes all the excuses in the world to justify why you lost :)


kpaxxkpaxx - 6/24/2008 12:05:41 PM
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What are you talking about Ferrari won!


auto001auto001 - 6/24/2008 1:20:56 PM
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yeah, but BMW is also your boy :)


F1_DriverF1_Driver - 6/24/2008 4:41:56 PM
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They're all lucky, every race. Just like how BMW was lucky to score a win in Montreal. If Lewis hadn't rear-ended Kimi then Kubica wouldn't have finished first.


BremboBrembo - 6/24/2008 9:13:35 AM
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WhattheWhatthe - 6/24/2008 9:16:01 AM
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Where was Kubi. Oh, no crashes. Kimi had sick engine for the last third of the race. Where was the great Kubi. Trulli makes Toyota look good. He has always been fast, in spite of the car he drives.
Kubi lover de-boost!!!
BMW is an also ran in F1!

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WhattheWhatthe - 6/24/2008 9:57:37 AM
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Oh yeah, win means nothing!


TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 6/24/2008 11:53:30 AMView My AgentSpace
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2008 F1 Season:

Pos Team Points

1 Ferrari - 91
2 BMW Sauber - 74
3 McLaren-Mercedes - 58
4 Red Bull-Renault - 24
5 Toyota - 23


Agent009Agent009 - 6/24/2008 10:25:38 AMView My AgentSpace
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I wonder what Toyota has spent in F-1 to date? Anyone have a figure?

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TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 6/24/2008 11:55:46 AMView My AgentSpace
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Close to a billion? They should figure out their place (beige Camrys) and stay there.


Agent009Agent009 - 6/24/2008 12:25:39 PMView My AgentSpace
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That is the figure I was looking at.

So Two podium finishes for $1,000,000,000? Wow what an investment.


abcdabcd - 6/24/2008 12:47:29 PM
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I think until toyota f1 team is base in cologne ( germany ) they will never have any good results , not matter how many money they`ll spend . :)


TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 6/24/2008 1:22:25 PMView My AgentSpace
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"I think until toyota f1 team is base in cologne ( germany ) they will never have any good results , not matter how many money they`ll spend."


Proves that money can't buy morale or motivation.


TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 6/24/2008 1:24:29 PMView My AgentSpace
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I.e., people fight harder for their own kind.


F1_DriverF1_Driver - 6/24/2008 4:53:01 PM
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Actually 5 podiums (2x2nd, 3x3rd) to date for that amount of money.


2JayZee2JayZee - 6/25/2008 12:06:32 AM
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The Agents on this site are trolling now?

Just wow.

Anyway, Toyota has spent about 3 Billion or so, to set up an F1 operation from scratch, including building a wind tunnel and paying R.Schumacher a $25 million salary. In short about the same as what Honda [Formerly BAR], Ferrari & McLaren-Mercedes has spent in this period.

@abcd
Toyota F1, aka TTE, aka Toyota Motorsports GmbH IS based in Cologne Germany. They only build the engines in Japan.
Or did you mean "as long as" rather than "until" ?


TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 6/24/2008 11:50:38 AMView My AgentSpace
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More of a sign of starting grid penalties I would say.

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2JayZee2JayZee - 6/25/2008 12:12:54 AM
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Just like BMW winning was due to attrition of the fastest cars on the grid. Kubica still kept his head together and put in a stunning drive to hold it.
Trulli still had to hold of the McLaren of Kovalinen, and the BMW of Kubica.
This podium was deserved for a stunning drive and they got it with pace, on merit. Is it so hard to say "nice drive, congrats" ?

Some people.


TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 6/25/2008 1:26:43 AMView My AgentSpace
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I remember that Kubica was running second behind Hamilton before Hamilton took himself (and Räikkönen) out which allowed Kubica to take the win.


BoredBored - 6/24/2008 1:41:28 PM
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@ MichaelTaylor,

Awww, would you like a Kleenex?

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2ndbimmer2ndbimmer - 6/24/2008 12:50:00 PM
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we wont mark your words because you always post garbage.

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auto001auto001 - 6/24/2008 1:33:19 PM
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Toyota is just throwing money around (they have plenty of it anyways). If they were serious about winning, they'll win almost every race (depending on the driver's skills of course).

German makes need their presence in these events to justify to people that they are a capable automobile maker. Toyota on the other hand, don't need to convince the public, people already know they make the best cars out there and have bulletproof quality and reliability. Must Toyota be 1st in everything?


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alfista_dkalfista_dk - 6/24/2008 1:58:17 PM
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Auto001:
You honestly believe Toyota arent serious about winning ? Lol..pull your head out off your ****


TheSailorTheSailor - 6/24/2008 1:47:12 PMView My AgentSpace
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Hmm... Is the luck finally changing for Toyota? Well... Eventually, They'd had to get it right, right?

Anyway, how come there there is an article about Toyota finishing third, however, there is nothing about Massa winning!?

Anyway, I think that is just about the first time ever that a team with that kind of budget have celebrated a third place finish! Had it been Red Bull or something like that, I could have understood it, but honestly, Toyota?! They spend millions and millions a year getting nowhere! Come back when they actually win something!

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2JayZee2JayZee - 6/25/2008 12:16:11 AM
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I guess it's a big deal cause they broke the drought? Not only that, the race was dedicated to Ove Anderson, the founder of TTE who died in a crash recently. So...good timing

The article is slightly inaccurate anyway, because the last podium was in 2006.


gsh23gsh23 - 6/24/2008 2:47:53 PM
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trulli qualified 5th overall for the french gp, behind räikkönen, massa, hamilton, and alonso. thats pretty good. kubica was a full tenth slower than trulli. if he keeps this up then he will be raking in the points.

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TheSailorTheSailor - 6/24/2008 3:20:49 PMView My AgentSpace
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Well... Don't forget that the only one he actually overtook was Alonso! Hamilton was booted down to 13...

And raking in the points might be a bit of an overstatement! He has 18 of them... That is not impressive for a car with that kind of financial backing!


2JayZee2JayZee - 6/25/2008 12:17:21 AM
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Money isn't everything in F1


2JayZee2JayZee - 6/25/2008 12:18:45 AM
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and he still had to hold his position against Kubica and Kovaleinen.


JUGNUJUGNU - 6/24/2008 3:34:44 PMView My AgentSpace
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Congrats Toyota and Jarno. Great fight with Heikki in the last 15 laps surely made the otherwise pretty boring and predictable race.

in the last 3 laps it became even better, probably the best fighting, overtaking and defending manouvers of the season so far.

Good work Toyota, i hope they score a few more podiums.

JUGNU


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JUGNUJUGNU - 6/24/2008 3:39:08 PMView My AgentSpace
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"surely made the otherwise pretty boring and predictable race." ....INTRESTING.

and no Jarno was not lucky other than Hmailton penalty, which he fully deserve all were in regular positions(no penalty or accident...etc) to fight.

JUGNU

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TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 6/25/2008 1:27:59 AMView My AgentSpace
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There was no victory - they finished *third*.

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Dr550Dr550 - 6/25/2008 2:14:14 PM
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Yeah, Toyota won second runner-up. French GP is a very difficult course for passing. Congrats Jarno/Toyota, made last 15 laps fun to watch.

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huu76huu76 - 6/26/2008 12:36:38 AM
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It's a start. I wouldn't bank anything on it until they become more consistent.

However, they've already doubled last year's standings with 10 races left.
If they could match 2005's results within 2 years, it would spur them to invest even more money into F1.

Toyota can spend whatever they want because they can.

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