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Originally Posted by Chiana
That skipping of Spa was fairly ridiculous no matter how you look at Toyota being the newcomers... they only had one working chassis at that point, which they had wrecked in testing anyway. I guess it was the first true reflection of how underfunded the whole opertation was, which at the time really shocked me (biggest manufacturer in the world giving pennies for it's racing department)
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How many times does this subject come up? They were only going to run Le Mans and maybe one other race in addition to Fuji in 2012. 2013 was going to be their first full season with one car and two at select rounds. They stepped up because Peugeot dropped out. 2014 was what they were aiming at as a full on. Tmg probably has a low budget because Akio Toyoda and the members of current Toyota in Japan dont want frivolous spending like F1 which was under some bad direction for most of its life. Results may swerve them to give more. Vasselon stated the budget was increased from last year. If you think about it, perhaps 2013 was the real first year for Toyota.