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Competition This Week.(Toyota Motor Corp. will not continue to supply engines to CART program)
Toyota drops CART program
* Foot-dragging has cost CART one of its wealthiest patrons: Auto industry giant Toyota announced it will not supply engines to CART in 2003. While the company left the door cracked regarding a return to CART in 2004, the likelihood is that once Toyota is gone, it's gone for good.
``We simply couldn't wait any longer,'' said J. Davis Illingworth, Toyota senior vice president.
Toyota will continue to supply its teams through 2002. Toyota's departure will be felt beyond those teams, because the company also supports CART itself in a big way, buying television time during CART broadcasts, sponsoring races and providing CART's official trucks. It all goes away when the company stops providing engines.
The CART community hoped Toyota would stay until a new engine formula takes effect in 2004. CART was supposed to have the new formula last spring, with new engines in 2003. By this season's opening race in Monterrey, Mexico, CART decided to adopt a normally aspirated, IRL-style formula to replace its current 2.65-liter turbocharged V8s. Yet thanks to several factors, including shifting politics, a new CART administration and strong objections from Honda to the IRL-style formula, the final decision was delayed.
In the interim at least two things happened: Toyota felt compelled to announce its IRL program, and Honda and Ford, CART's other engine suppliers, said it was too late to have a new engine ready for the 2003 season. In late May CART and its engine manufacturers powwowed in Los Angeles. Honda indicated it would not reject an IRL-style formula, and Toyota said it might stick around through 2003 if the new engine came on line in '04. CART re-affirmed its intention to adopt a normally aspirated engine. An official announcement was planned for June, and then August, and now it's October and there is still no formula.
``Our timetable for business planning reached a critical point,'' said Illingworth. ``It's not prudent for Toyota to supply two different engine specs for U.S.-based open-wheel racing while also in the early stages of a Formula One program. If CART adopts the same engine specifications as the IRL, and it makes sense from a financial and marketing standpoint, Toyota would consider again participating.''
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