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AUTOSPORT tries Toyota's $1m F1 simulator

Toyota's European motorsport division is still in business even if its no longer building F1 cars. So AUTOSPORT was invited to Cologne to try the F1 simulator the team used until 2009 - now available for hire. Resident racer Ben Anderson jumped in the cockpit for a training session

The Formula 1 dream is dead, but Toyota's F1 factory is still very much alive.

Since the Japanese manufacturer abandoned the pinnacle of the sport at the end of 2009, its F1 factory in Cologne, Germany, has downsized from over 700 employees to fewer than 200.

During its eight seasons in F1, Toyota built up an impressive array of engineering facilities - all in pursuit of the elusive first grand prix victory that never came.

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