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Old 13 Jun 2023, 16:56 (Ref:4163572)   #597
Matador
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Matador should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally Posted by kvenom View Post
Akio Toyoda is not happy about the BoP at all:



https://www.dailysportscar.com/2023/...-notebook.html

Yikes.

Pretty sure that he definitely wouldn't be pleased. I don't think they are at risk of going anywhere at the moment, they will want to come back and try again next year for sure and prove the critics wrong, but I think even more telling is this


Toyota WEC hydrogen Program



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Toyota is the first major manufacturer to have presented such a concept race car, although Leupen said that doesn’t indicate they’ll enter the category that’s been targeted for a 2026 launch in the FIA World Endurance Championship.
“I think some things have to happen for that before we would take a decision like this,” he told Sportscar365.
“Stability of rules, for example. I think [Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation chairman] made that very clear.
“There’s no commitment from that side at all, and I think this BoP [at Le Mans in Hypercar], what has happened, is a good sign that when you do something like this, you need to have confidence, and at the moment there is not.
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