Willis slams Honda

[cosworth151]

I don't think Toyota will buy Williams. It's not in their corporate nature. As far as I can tell, Toyota has never purchased an existing company. They seem to take great pride in starting everything from scratch in-house.

[Chameleon]

Good point, Cosworth - I admit I hadn't thought of that.  But maybe they could dress it up as a merger of the two teams, rather than a complete take-over.  It makes so much sense for Toyota to to do that - they could stop beating their heads against the wall and Williams could survive as a racing team in its own right.

In fact, thinking about it, the end of 2007 would be the ideal time to do something like that.  Ralf would be gone and rumour has it that Kimi will be at Toyota next year.  Could we read that as Toyota-Williams?  And that would be a powerful pairing, Kimi and Nico, perhaps with Wurz as test driver again.  Trulli?  Well, maybe they could pension him off to Red Bull or Super Aguri or somewhere...

[johnbull]

There are so many possibilities, but certainly a "tie up" as opposed to a buy out, with Kimi heading the driver force, sounds like a good option.

It would need Frank and Patrick at the head - if you'll pardon th pun.

Quite a formidable combo!

[cosworth151]

Would a merger of two teams be allowed? Since the rights are issued by the FIA, I don't think such a thing would be possible. They've been working toward a 24 car grid. That would knock it back to 22.

[Chameleon]

You're forgetting that, where money is involved, Max and Bernie are open to all offers... 

[johnbull]

You're forgetting that, where money is involved, Max and Bernie are open to all offers... 

You beat me to it, Chami.