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Originally Posted by Bramzel

Waarom is dit precies? Mogen ze de wagen niet zo gebruiken of zo?

Er zijn (contractuele) problemen tussen Team Lexus, Lexus en Toyota Racing Development.

With that, early last spring, a couple TRD employees were left behind and put in a position to oversee the build of the new Lexus ALMS project, which was not part of Team Lexus’ original contract. Unfortunately, according to those same sources, internal “political” issues and delayed funding for the team, lead to the project falling behind schedule. However, TRD reports to Lexus lead them to believe that the team was the problem, the reason they were behind schedule and ultimately not capable of completing the project. After this continued for some time and with infighting between the team, TRD and Lexus, the project became so out of order that Chuck Goldsborough, team principal of Team Lexus, said he had enough and put an end to the project.

Daarom laat Team Lexus niet toe om de wagen te gebruiken, veronderstel ik.

However, it does look that even if that were to be the case, its over for this season and the project will have to begin again from scratch for next year if Lexus and TRD want to pursue it. At this point, I’ve been told, its not likely that any of these cars or parts will be transferred from Team Lexus to PTG should they take over, so PTG will have to go at it from scratch. The best case scenario would have Lexus and Team Lexus patching things up and finding a way to get the built cars to the new team, though I’m not holding my breath at this point from the way things sound.