Toyota back in F1 with Haas partnership after 15 year absence

The link-up with Haas sees Toyota instrumentality to Formula 1 aft 15 years away, pursuing their exit from the athletics successful November 2009 having failed to triumph a contention successful 8 seasons

Toyota is backmost successful Formula 1 aft a 15-year absence.

The Japanese elephantine has linked up with American minnows Haas done its motorsport division, Toyota Gazoo Racing. The partnership, which begins astatine adjacent weekend's United States Grand Prix, marks the carmaker's archetypal engagement successful F1 since it walked distant from the athletics successful 2009.

Toyota built a works squad from scratch and entered the title successful 2002. But contempt having 1 of the biggest budgets connected the F1 grid, the Cologne-based outfit ne'er won a contention and managed lone 13 podiums successful 8 seasons.

In 2009, aft the genitor institution suffered a fiscal loss, it instantly pulled retired of the sport. Toyota Gazoo Racing has enjoyed sizeable occurrence successful different series, though, including 7 World Rally Championship titles and six endurance bid wins, including 5 wide victories astatine the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

And present it is backmost progressive successful F1 arsenic the 'official method partner' of the Haas squad. Toyota Gazoo Racing branding volition diagnostic connected the Haas cars from the Austin contention portion "both parties volition stock expertise and knowledge, arsenic good arsenic resources".

Team main Ayao Komatsu said: "To person a world person successful the automotive assemblage enactment and enactment alongside our organization, portion seeking to make and accelerate their ain method and engineering expertise - it is simply a concern with evident benefits connected some sides.

"The quality to pat into the resources and cognition basal disposable astatine Toyota Gazoo Racing, portion benefiting from their method and manufacturing processes, volition beryllium instrumental successful our ain improvement and our wide tendency to further summation our competitiveness successful Formula 1. In return, we connection a level for Toyota Gazoo Racing to afloat utilize and subsequently beforehand their in-house engineering capabilities.

"I americium people pleased that we person had the enactment of the likes of Formula 1 and our semipermanent partner, Scuderia Ferrari - who we announced our further continuation with earlier successful the season, successful the enactment of this caller method concern - designed to execute continued occurrence successful our Formula 1 endeavours."

Haas said a multi-year woody has been signed betwixt the 2 parties. And Gazoo Racing president Tomoya Takahashi said his institution "desires to lend to motorsports and the automotive industry".

He added: "By competing alongside MoneyGram Haas F1 Team astatine the pinnacle of motorsports, we purpose to cultivate drivers, engineers, and mechanics portion strengthening the capabilities of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team and Toyota Gazoo Racing."