Toyota president John Howett has slammed speculation that his team's future is in question as 'malicious scare-mongering' as he reemphasizes their commitment to Formula One.
With the team's new TF108 having failed to shine in early testing, Toyota have been surrounded by speculation that the company's Japanese president Katsuaki Watanabe is getting impatient for results.
However, speaking exclusively to this week's Autosport, Howett says that the company is fully committed to the future - even though the pressure is on them to improve results.
"It's Toyota culture to challenge everything," he said. "But it's a constructive philosophy. A lot of the company's senior executives really like to win so, if anything, we face a passionate pressure to perform. The media reports of the squad withdrawing are pure, malicious scare-mongering."
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