Pierre Genon

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The Race F1 Podcast · How Toyota is helping transform F1’s smallest team · 13 May 2026 podcast

But I wouldn't say you manufacture many new parts for a TPC program normally.

That's actually very key because ultimately we are in a unique position until now in Formula One of not having our own facility.

We have some access to Ferrari simulator, but we're talking far less days than we would normally like.

Obviously, there's the distance.

So it really is for us not only about acquiring the hardware and the software.

This is the first part of a journey and we'll be there sometime this year and towards the middle of the year.

But for me, that's almost a start rather than the end, because it's an operation that we just haven't got set up.

We are building the team.

And my experience tells me that it will then take a few years to properly exploit it.

Because a tool like that, it's a tool at the end of the day.

What you get out of it is only as good as not just the hardware, but the quality of the operation, the sharpness of the people who use it, the procedures you develop over time.

There's all sorts of things which we have to implement.

There's a lot of people in the team who know what to do because they've been in that sort of environment before, but we still have to put it in place.

So I would say, you know, when we start to operate later this year, it's really the start.

And it will be a few months before we get some products in some areas, but probably a few years before we fully match it.

Toyota have access to the IP and the designs of that simulator so obviously that's the head start and a little bit of you know I'm sure we'll get a lot of help in the setting up of a facility develop what's called the motion curings and how you use the

platform to give the driver the information on what the virtual car is doing, there's definitely a head start there.

Eventually, we'll have to learn to do our own things, I think, both in terms of how we use the hardware, but generally operate the team around the simulation.

It's our longest longer term project, I would say.

We are, again, in a very different position from most Formula One teams where we don't manufacture anything.

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