The peculiar situation of Panasonic Toyota Racing in Formula 1 is own of team with a modern logistic infrastructure and technical, that is enabled with a high professional degree between its personnel, which already was inserted properly in the context and the atmosphere of Formula 1, improving race after race - it weighs to have undergone serious stumbles, that of to equal have made it way learn and evolve since it made debut in the Great Prize of Australia 2002 with his precocious model Toyota TF102/Michelin, to the control of the Finn Mika Salo and the Scot Allan McNish. -

The Toyota equipment has made an investment millionaire to compete with dignity in Formula 1. -

In little that remains of the calendar of Formula 1 of 2003, with the battled model Toyota TF103/Michelin, lead by the French Olivier Panis and the Brazilian Christian It gives Matta like his coequipier, escudería Japanese with base in Cologne (Germany), where it is soothes technical of the equipment, commanded by the ex- Swedish pilot of rally Ove Andersson (Vice Chairman de Toyota Motorsports GmbH - TMG-, branch German in charge to develop the sport models of the company), it goes by better results than the obtained ones until the present, with the ambition to well clearly leave his historical prestige, laid the foundations in a trajectory world-wide recognized in several categories of excellent level. -

The experience of Olivier Panis has been decisive in the development of model TF103. -

Team integral Toyota works to such rate and with as much responsibility - that by the way it must to its magnificent economic endorsement that I consider that for the season of Formula 1 of 2005 or it will be mixed between escuderías of the lot of end, with the present pilots or others. -
Panis could culminate its sport race in Formula 1 in the Toyota equipment at the end of calendar 2004; and it is not necessary to happen through stop that Gives to Matta (that will continue in team Toyota in 2004 and whose capacity and potential is enormous and, at the same time, still not known in the European atmosphere) it will have to very consider which its position will be object of disputes between pilots and, mainly, by the empowered representatives and of pilots, for those who, in numerous cases, it only tells to the money and Nobel and revolutionary single-seater to release in 2005 which it will get to be vedette of Formula 1. -

Christian Gives Matta has known to gain the respect of the members of the Toyota equipment. -

Escudería Panasonic Toyota Racing will excel by its effectiveness before its rivals, but to see materialized this vital objective, among others obstacles to surpass, also it will have to learn “to dance” to the rate vertiginous, and sometimes contradictory, of the prescribed swings that are approached in Formula 1 and which they will wear away in extreme degree to his engineers and technicians. -

Ricardo Gabriel D `Annunzio

This writing was published in the Argentine Newspaper “the NEW PROVINCE” (http://www.lanueva.com.ar/) Tuesday 16 of September of 2003. -