{"id":3593,"date":"2010-03-22T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2010-03-22T06:54:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:54:22","slug":"kobayashi-learned-albert-park-on-toyota-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kobayashi-learned-albert-park-on-toyota-simulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobayashi learned Albert Park on Toyota simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the wake of its withdrawal from formula one, and the lapsing of an arrangement with Stefan GP, there is still activity at Toyota&#8217;s Cologne headquarters.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sauber revealed in its official Australian GP media preview that Kamui Kobayashi, the Swiss team&#8217;s new Japanese and Toyota-backed driver, learned the layout of the Albert Park circuit last week on the &#8220;Toyota simulator&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When it became clear after scrutineering for the 2010 opener in Bahrain that Stefan GP would not be racing, Toyota issued a media statement.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan intended to race this year with Toyota&#8217;s support and the Japanese marque&#8217;s 2010 package, including a rebadged car and engine.<\/p>\n<p>But with no entry for 2010, it is believed the Stefan\/Toyota alliance therefore lapsed, with all the equipment sent to Bahrain set to be returned now to Cologne.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota said on 12 March, the day of free practice in Bahrain, that its F1 factory now enters &#8220;a new era&#8221;, with 200 staff still on site to serve &#8220;external clients&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the driver simulator with &#8220;14 laser-mapped circuits&#8221;, Toyota is offering for use its CFD capabilities, two wind tunnels, manufacturing machines and test rigs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited by the challenges our various clients will bring us in 2010 and beyond,&#8221; said executive vice president Yoshiaki Kinoshita.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of its withdrawal from formula one, and the lapsing of an arrangement with Stefan GP, there is still activity at Toyota&#8217;s Cologne headquarters. \u00a0 Sauber revealed in its official Australian GP media preview that Kamui Kobayashi, the Swiss team&#8217;s new Japanese and Toyota-backed driver, learned the layout of the Albert Park circuit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5339,805,5262,97,114,1098],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}