BMW_Dude

Toyota is aiming to depose BMW as the third-fastest team in Formula 1 during the course of 2007.
Team president John Howett believes the Japanese manufacturer can escape from its current tight battle with Renault, Red Bull and Williams, and hunt down BMW.
"There are two or three challenges facing us now the European season is starting," said Howett.
"The first is to maintain our position at the top of the second group of teams and make sure we don't slip back.
"Then, looking forward, the main ambition now has to be to catch and pass BMW as the first step."
Howett added that Toyota had already proved its ability to make up ground as a championship progressed.
"It's clear from last year that we can make major improvements in performance over a season after we moved from a pretty slow start to a competitive position at the end of the year," he said.
"We are intending to do exactly the same this year but we are acutely aware there are another four, five or six teams out there trying to do exactly the same.
"It is a motivating challenge for the people here to do it again and to show we are an emerging and serious challenger on the F1 grid."
He said that Toyota had already taken giant strides in 2007 following a troubled build-up and some disappointing pre-season tests.
"In Melbourne we were quicker than people generally expected and in Malaysia I think we closed the gap on the top three teams by about 50% compared to Melbourne," Howett said.
"That was more or less maintained in Bahrain.
"That's a result of the great effort from the team in all areas.
"After a successful test in Barcelona we are looking forward to seeing where we are relatively this coming weekend."



Source = ITV F1

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Imhotep Evil

That's a good laugh.
Now seriously what to they propose to do for the 2007 season ?!

BMW_Dude

Win the championship!

shonguiz

RBR is also aiming to pass Bmw. S**t wa are in trouble

Imhotep Evil

RBR will be more of a threat, as long as they're in one piece at least.

RBR was in the last race before the technical failures, the 4th fastest team. And their progress, in performance, since the first race was superiour to everyone.
Ofcourse everyone knows Newey can make fast cars, especially with magnificent Renault engines in them, but he can't make them reliable.

shonguiz

It's true that they have a good potential but i don't think that they will pass us. Sure, the technical staff is very good, the engine is one of the best and owner seems to really want his team to succed. But they also have some weak points: Christian Horner sucks, the pilotes are not potentialy champions, their ressources are divided between two teams and their biggest problem to pass BMW is BMW it-self.

Osnabrueck

"Guys! Listen up. To beat BMW, we need to go faster! Starting tomorrow, only fast driving is allowed. If we persevere, we'll beat those bastards over at BMW. Remember guys... fast driving."

Imhotep Evil

RBR said they'll beat BMW Sauber too. Oh well Super Auguri is next.

chonkoa

In essence what he is saying is that they(Toyota) will try to steal designs from BMW since the "Ferrari strategy" wasn't successful.

Sunny

Yup, I won't be surprised. Toyota has a long history of bad sportsmanship. They cheated in WRC and got banned. They used a highly controversial design for Le Mans that was at least not legal in the spirit if not the word and still managed to loose to Porsche and BMW in consecutive years before quiting the sport like sore losers. Then they they turned to F1 and and resorted to stealing other's designs and still can't win despite the biggest budget.

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