QUOTE (cheapracer @ Apr 24 2010, 06:27)

So there you go.
Most teams start development of their next years car the year before sometimes even the year before that if the regs are clear and lets remember that a 2010 car isn't so far removed from 2009 car so most likely Toyota, the biggest of the big buck runners, did have at least a prototype and full build schedule in place.
But hey, some very important poster in a forum hasn't seen it so I guess it can't be then.
I have no doubt in my mind that Toyota themselves had a 2010 car that was well on its way. I have no doubt that JV sat in that Toyota car, and talked with the crew over in Cologne. What I do have some doubt about is whether STEFAN ever had those cars, and whether he physically had appropriated them and sent them to Bahrain (or had someone else send them, it doesn't matter).
I believe that Toyota had a 2010 car, and that it could have been good. I don't believe that Stefan physically got his hands on the 2010 cars and sent them to Bahrain like he claimed. Reports say that the containers are...somewhere. Who in the name of all that is holy allows a container of prototype F1 cars to go missing? Particularly ones that they claimed they would be testing throughout the season in preparation for 2011?
Anyway cheapracer, I hope that cleared up the reason for my doubt. It was, in my mind, a valid reason from a poster of undoubted significance and importance.