The Weekly Grapevine
This week, on Williams, Toyota and Lexus, and the power of the GPDA
Williams, Toyota and Lexus
That Williams are about to sign a two-year deal with a one-year extension option with Toyota is no surprise, and absolutely no disrespect is meant to Cosworth with that statement, either, for the Northampton company has produced a jewel of an engine in the CA2006, which is a unit truly worthy of a world-class chassis.
Ultra high-revving, compact and produced at about quarter the price of work's engines, the Alex Hitzinger-designed V8 had powered Williams' FW28 chassis to fastest laps and front-row starts, whilst the only thing which kept Mark Webber off the Monaco podium was the failure of a (non-Cosworth) heat shield. So why change from what you know to what you don't?
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