Maybe this is why the FIA is so annoyed at Toyota, there will definitely be one less on the grid next year when they wanted to expand to 13 teams. But it does make it very easy for the new man Todt to give the green light to Sauber, without them having to buy a grid slot, he is on record as promising all assistance to secure a place for them.
The redundancy pay offs are going to cost Toy a small fortune though.
Updatef1.com, yesterday.
Toyota has "rejected" the idea of following the example of fellow carmakers Honda and BMW.
When Honda withdrew from F1, the Japanese carmaker agreed to hand over its Brackley based team to managers including Ross Brawn and Nick Fry for a symbolic British pound.
And when BMW made the decision to leave the sport, it was sold to the Qadbak consortium.
But team president John Howett said those options have "already been discussed and rejected" by the Toyota Motor Corporation.
"Maybe these ideas can be reopened but, at the moment, it would appear not," he told the Times.