Just for the record: Toyota and Honda left F1 as has Bridgestone. Kawasaki dropped out of MotoGP. Suziki and Subaru quit the WRC and Mitsubishi has called off its Dakar efforts.
All these Japanese companies announced they will pour their future motorsport efforts into Gran Turismo 5....
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Surely the GT5 comment was in jest?
ReplyDeleteDemonstrates some people in Toyota were passionate about F1!
ReplyDeleteYou have disgraced my famiry!
ReplyDeleteWhat a waste..... All thanks to the short term mentality of the public markets. Watch them all pay triple in the future at the next peak of the industry cycle (+ all intermediaries getting filthy rich) from what it would have cost to fund small losses during the through years.
ReplyDeleteAren't there any capable CEOs of standing up to their boards and making a business case for it? Is Carlos Gohsn really the only one with a long term vision? (Maybe that's why he is the only really successful one?)
Despite funneling and other few hundred million into Gran Turismo 5 it will still be delayed until December 24, 2016 For the PS6 game platform.
ReplyDeleteOnly after they get done with the "ban Flavio", "House of Max" and "weekend at Bernie's" secret missions programming...
ReplyDeletejust to clarify...
ReplyDeleteMan in the video clip is not Toyoda. It's Tadashi Yamashina， Team Principal and Chairman.
Thank you Shiwei!
ReplyDeleteAwesome the GT5 comment is a classic
ReplyDeleteKaz Nakajima?
ReplyDeleteThank you my treasured proof readers! :)
ReplyDeleteUnemployed in F1, no matter the name.
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