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Originally Posted by Lola T70
700 staff, it was over 1,100 a year ago.
Where did you here this, got a link?
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1100? Does that count the actual racing team? Many people might have been already laid off. Yashida Tamashima (or something like that, likely mispelled name!) said some months ago how the board kept slashing the budget for 2009 again and again.
But the link:
http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/mod...opic=8&catid=0
A Toyota staff member has told Germany's Auto Motor und Sport magazine that, following the announcement of the carmaker's withdrawal from formula one, he heard rumours that only 150 employees will remain at Cologne for the next racing project.
About 700 staff currently work on the team's F1 engine and chassis programmes in Junkersdorf, in the west of Cologne.
One option for the withdrawing owners of F1 teams is to sell the operation as a going concern, but team president John Howett said on Wednesday that he believes Toyota Motorsport GmbH will instead be scaled down in order to participate in "grassroots motor sport". Le Mans has been mentioned as a likely alternative.
Toyota Motorsport GmbH = absorbed TTE