Cologne --
Is Toyota Racing Stefan GP? The hope for a continuation of the Formula-1 activities in the Cologne plant - through the offering of Serbs Dr. Zoran Stefanovic (EXPRESS reported), they get fresh food.
It's about the plans for the 2010s car, where, despite the exit of 4 Toyota November is further developed, the use of Higtech workshops and above all, the launch site. To the team because of the hasty signing of the Concorde Agreement until 2012 as the neck like an alleged claim for damages by Bernie Ecclestone over 100 million euros.
This is Stefanovic 'Company
The potential Toyota customers AMCO is an engineering company in Belgrade.
It provides credit report for high-tech parts for aerospace and military (including reconnaissance drone for the Bundeswehr), wind turbines, rotors and engines and transmissions for racing here (Formula Ford).
Project was for the Formula-1-the former McLaren designer Mike Coughlan obliged stumbled in 2007 about the espionage scandal (keyword copy shop) was.
Who is this Serb who wants to save the honor of hundreds of mismanagement before unemployment standing Toyota employees? "We have made some kind of agreement with them to take the Formula 1 project," said Dr. Stefanovic, whose company AMCO allegedly engines and parts for the aerospace and military production () see info box.
In Formula 1 he was already before the Toyota Exit: "We have a complete system and all that is needed to start the test work." Now begins the haggling over the Toyota launch site.
EXPRESS asked in Marsdorf: Get out Stefanovic at Toyota Motorsport GmbHein and preserve as many of the 650 jobs? "As long as AMCO has no enrollment for next year, it's all speculation and we will not comment," says the outgoing PR Chief Andy Fox.
But he clarifies: "TMG is not for sale and will continue to exist as a company in Cologne." With approximately 150 employees and so on three pillars: marketing of the plant (wind tunnels, test stands, etc.), tuning for Toyota vehicles (such as Mercedes AMG) and refinement of the Lexus sports car for LFA Renneisätze.
