Hello and welcome to F1 Livery Histories, the channel will we take a look back at
the different paint jobs, racing trims and sponsor decals adopted by respective
Formula One teams throughout the eras.
Today we'll be taking a look back at the
plight of one of the world's largest auto manufacturers in Formula One.
A manufacturer which has attained numerous successes in a wide variety of
motorsports, yet were unable to ever mount a serious challenge for the World
Championship, during an 8-year association with Formula One.
Toyota Racing.
The Toyota Motor Company was founded in 1937, first producing their
prototype passenger sedan in 1936, dubbed the model AA.
Throughout the Second World War the company produced trucks for the Japanese military.
In 1972 the company founded Toyota team Europe, and first entered the Toyota Celica
into the World Rally Championship. Toyota would go on to eventually claim 3 WRC
Constructors' titles as an official Factory concern.
In 1999 Toyota suspended
their sports car and rallying programs to focus on a shift into Formula One.
The new team established their base of operations in Cologne and produced their
first Formula One car the, TF101, which was painted in Toyota's company colours
of red and white.
The team were now ready to begin their Formula One operation in
earnest, starting in 2002.
So begins our retrospective on the racing liveries
of the Toyota Formula One team.
The TF102, Toyota's first chassis, raced at Grand Prix level, was designed by
Gustav Brunner. The car ran with Michelin tires and
became the first Formula One car to consume Esso fuels.
Mika Salo delivered the team its first ever point in its debut race held at Albert Park.
The team ran with a predominantly white livery which featured red brushstrokes angled
diagonally across the car. Panasonic was signed on as the team's title sponsor
and was seen on the cars side pods and rear wing in contrasting blue text.
The TF 102 also featured a rising sun, hidden away behind the drivers helmet,
in acknowledgement of the team's Japanese heritage.
The car also carried a list of
smaller sponsors, including Travelex, Wella, Ebon Dacs, Ratiopharm, Avex,
and EMC2.
The team went on to produce the TF103 for the 2003 season,
which now featured KDDI, Intel, Karcher and AOL Time Warner as supplementary sponsors.
This was also the season Spanish La Liga club, Valencia, first
became the official football club partner of Panasonic Toyota racing.
In 2004, Japanese auto parts manufacturers Denso, a company partially owned by
Toyota, was first seen on the engine case of the TF104.
Time Incorporated was also
seen in the car in 2004, appearing on the sides of the front wing.
The team signed Mike Gascoigne as its technical director, who penned the TF105 for the 2005 season.
2005 would prove to be the team's most successful season in Formula One;
a season which oversaw a dramatic improvement in performance for the team,
underlined by back-to-back second-place finishes earned by Jarno Trulli in
Malaysia and Bahrain.
The team raced with the updated TF105B model, introduced
for the Japanese Grand Prix, which in the hands of Ralf Schumacher secured pole
position for its maiden race.
Trulli and Schumacher would register five podiums
between them throughout the season, helping Toyota achieve fourth position
in the 2005 Constructors' standings.
The following season the team ran with
Bridgestone rubber for the TF106, the final Toyota chassis designed
by Mike Gascoigne. However, 2006 saw the team unable to
capitalize on their breakout season from the year previous.
In 2007 Kingfisher Airlines joined as sponsors, whilst Mobil joined as
technical partners, as the team raced with the new TF107 chassis.
In 2008 the team raced with the aerodynamically sound TF108.
Warner Brothers, a Time Warner company,
used the new car to promote its feature films, such as the
box office smash, The Dark Knight.
The team was once again on the up, and in
2009 produced a TF109, which featured twin rear diffusers, and netted
four podium finishes throughout the season, including second places for Timo
Glock in Singapore, and the team's longtime driver Jarno Trulli, at Suzuka.
The TF109 livery featured much thicker brushstrokes, applied to the car in an
asymmetrical manner. The team also picked up German construction equipment company
Wurth, which appeared on the sides of the rear wing.
Quite unexpectedly, 2009 would
prove to be the final season for the factory Toyota team.
In the face of an
increasingly turbulent financial market, the company reached a decision to
withdraw from Formula One with immediate effect, which meant that the team's final
chassis, the TF110, went unraced.
And so as a result of a global financial
downturn, the Toyota team, along with fellow works entities, BMW and Honda,
were out of Formula One, signalling the beginning of a new direction for the
sport as a whole.
Post Formula One, Toyota would make a return to both rallying and
endurance racing, finally attaining their first win at Le Mans in 2018.
Here ends or retrospective on a manufacturer that may very well one day make a return to
Formula One to settle unfinished business.
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