These pictures show the Toyota TF110 chassis in the colours Stefan GP hoped to race it in 2010.
Stefan GP planned to take the place of US F1 after the team pulled out shortly before the season began. However the FIA did not grant them permission to compete.
Two TF110 chassis were built but not raced by Toyota as they pulled out at the end of 2010.
This car, TF110-01, was eventually driven by Toyota-backed driver Kazuki Nakajima in a private test session last year.
The car is pictured in its ‘testing specification’. A race upgrade package was also planned which included an exhaust-blown diffuser as several teams ran in 2010.
It also featured alterations to the front and rear wings. The team did not have an F-duct for the car, although according to Toyota “we had done plenty of work on rear-wing stalling”.
A second chassis, which remained in black, has not turned a wheel.
Stefan GP applied for the 13th grid slot again in 2011 but no team was awarded the place.
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Here are a few technical details on the car:
Engine: Toyota RVX-10, 2.4-litre 90-degree V8. Limited to 18,000 rpm, produces “over 700 bhp”.
Transmission: Toyota seven-speed unit plus reverse with a Toyota-designed main case.
Dampers: Ohlins
Wheels: BBS forged magnesium
Electronics: Toyota / Magneti Marelli / McLaren Electronic Systems
Weight: 620 kg including driver
Overall length: 5050 mm
Overall height: 950 mm
Overall width: 1800 mm
Wheelbase: 3300 mm
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Burnout (@burnout)
5th January 2011, 13:19
What engine were Stefan planning to use if they were granted an entry? Ferrari?
There’s just no way to make a sharkfin look good, is there? Not even with naked carbon fibre.
newnhamlea1 (@newnhamlea1)
5th January 2011, 13:22
They were planning on using toyota engines, there are about 20 of them still sat in a warehouse somewhere.
Quantum Electrodynamics
6th January 2011, 10:20
So the “Serbian Vulture” is red? Or is it scarlet? :P
ste
6th January 2011, 23:55
wheres the sharkfin on the naked carbon the whole engine cover is removed???
The Sri Lankan
10th January 2011, 9:38
makes me sad to look at this thing…I Still dont understand why Toyota ditched 2010 when they had a car regardless of its competitiveness. and im convinced that at that stage in time they could-have manged nascar and F1given TOYOTA’s sheer budget
welshf1
5th January 2011, 13:20
Wow, its a Ferrari! Decent looking car, personally, i think a shame they never got a chance.
miguelF1O (@)
5th January 2011, 22:54
its similar not just because of the colour the suspension reminds me of the 2009 mclaren the nose and wings ferrari the rear wing is really a toyota 2009 innovation it looked well sahped for pre season anyway toyota always said that they were going to win and in the end they didnt mainly i heard cause of the engine
Macca (@macca)
6th January 2011, 2:44
Such a shame, and such a waste, it’s a beautiful car and it would have been good to see how they went.
Leftie (@leftie)
5th January 2011, 13:21
It’s a shame that this beauty never raced isn’t it
Scribe (@scribe)
7th January 2011, 1:08
Definatley, one smexy damn front wing that things got. Sigh.
Ben Needham (@ben-n)
5th January 2011, 13:21
It’s a shame! I don’t care what it looked like, just would’ve been brilliant to have a few more cars on the grid!
Patrickl (@patrickl)
5th January 2011, 14:17
A few more competitive cars even.
Ben Needham (@ben-n)
5th January 2011, 14:38
Huge shame that they didn’t compete!
Adam Tate
5th January 2011, 21:12
Exactly, Patrickl! I think had this been allowed to race it would have greatly troubled Renault and Mercedes and maybe even the top 3. Toyota had a good car in 09 and this looks like a step forward over that for sure. Looking back we’ve all heralded 2010 as one of the closest seasons ever, but just think what Glock and Trulli could have done if they could have driven this beauty around instead of being stuck at the back of the grid in the new teams. Thanks FIA.
PT (@pt)
11th January 2011, 6:52
Adam Tate,
Yeah, thanks FIA indeed for making things more boring for fans. Had Setfan GP been given preference over the HRT outfit we’d have had a more comptitive entry that, as many of you have suggested, would have been right up there at least amongst the mid pack.
It seems Toyota Motorsport is just destined to stay out of F1. The deal with HRT never materialized for 2011, and it seems these beautiful cars will just lie in the garages and give opportunities for photoshoots and articles on what might have been.
It seems that apart from a few European auto majors, no multinational auto company is truly passionate about F1. It’s just unbelievable how someone can see such a great car lying wasted without racing. It should be so demoralizing for the team that worked hard to get it done on time.
But that’s what multinational car companies are. Unemotional, self seeking but with truckloads of green to spend on nature exploration and water conservation (the Toyota-sposored programmes on National Geographic). In other words:
Multinational auto corporations + FIA = no racing.
FOTA + F1 fans = some racing
F1 – Ecclestone = ultimate racing
These are the basic priniciples behind UMOR – Ultimate Motor Racing, my dream to see F1 truly develop into. I’ll reveal more ideas about this in future comments or perhaps some blog posts. In the mean time, I invite Keith and all of you to imagine what true motor racing should be. Can the concept of true racing we have in our minds be made a reality?
zecks
5th January 2011, 13:22
bets on whether this car is faster than the HRT?
sw6569 (@sw6569)
5th January 2011, 13:25
i’d bet it was faster than all 3 new teams comfortably!
BasCB (@bascb)
5th January 2011, 13:51
I think it could have been right there in the mix between the Renault and the Mercedes.
Ben Needham (@ben-n)
5th January 2011, 13:54
Agreed, I think maybe fighting Williams and Force India for 6th/7th/8th!
Ben
6th January 2011, 0:02
Fer 65 is spot on. Toyota always, ALWAYS, came out and said how competitive they were gong to be. Fact is, every single year they didn’t. And not just didn’t, but really sucked. Truly truly blew goats.
This car would probably have been just another link in the chain, another disappointment by a car company which didn’t ‘get’ F1.
GeeMac (@geemac)
5th January 2011, 14:12
From what Toyota were saying about the numbers in the wind tunnel, it would have done better than that as well.
Fer no.65
5th January 2011, 16:29
They’ve been saying that since they entered F1… I reckon It’d have done a lot worse than expected!!!
ru_bd
6th January 2011, 6:36
all have to remember that Toyota was one of the expensive team during their tenure. and as they are a well establish team, so i think they should have beat comfortably all new teams and may be Williams and force india as well…….
Craig Woollard
6th January 2011, 0:45
Nah, it would have been battling Lotuseseses and Toro Rossos all season long if you think realistically, it was never gonna be brilliant, c’mon, it’s a Toyota!
Todfod (@todfod)
5th January 2011, 13:53
I agree. It would destroy the new teams with ease. Its a shame this car didn’t make it, and the HRT truck did.
Mike
6th January 2011, 5:14
Why? Because Toyota quit and chose not to race? Or because the FIA realised what a sham the Stefen entry would have been?
HRT deserves much more praise.
Todfod
6th January 2011, 6:20
Nope. They would have done better because they had a team of f1 professionals who had worked on designing and developing the car since mid 2009. Unlike HRT, which actually outsourced its car design to Dallara, Toyota was working on improving the 2009 challenger.. which was the 4th to 5th fastest car on the grid last year. In terms of expertise, Toyota’s team was leaps and bounds ahead of HRT. I do not understand what HRT deserve praise for?
Mike (@mike)
6th January 2011, 12:22
Because they aren’t just rolling over, despite knowing that things aren’t exactly going to get better any time soon.
For sure that car would destroy HRT, But you gotta admire HRT for trying to survive.
sato113 (@sato113)
5th January 2011, 14:52
yes, it was probably as fast if not faster than mercedes were at the beginning of the season.
RIISE (@riise)
5th January 2011, 16:57
It’s alright guessing where they would’ve come but it was a Toyota….
sato113 (@sato113)
5th January 2011, 19:36
well they developed it very early and with alot of money.
GeeMac
5th January 2011, 19:52
They did that with the TF109 too, and the TF108, and the TF107…..
Osvaldas31 (@osvaldas31)
5th January 2011, 13:24
Paint job is almost like Ferrari, and the nose is pure RB6 copy. Pity we didn’t know how TF110 would have performed.
zecks
5th January 2011, 13:28
yeah, why on earth pirelli used the T109 instead of the T110 is beyond me?
BasCB (@bascb)
5th January 2011, 13:52
First of all because the TF109 is a proved concept where a lot of data exist, so it is far better to use for development work (data collecting and verifying) than the never raced and untested TF110
Don Mateo
5th January 2011, 21:49
I believe as well that HRT’s attempts to buy the TF110 or some bits of it had something to do with it as well.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
5th January 2011, 13:29
Looks more like thr Sauber nose to me…
D.M.N. (@)
5th January 2011, 13:25
So, basically a Ferrari without any logos then?
Ned Flanders (@ned-flanders)
5th January 2011, 13:26
Wow, what a Ferrari rip off. The unwritten rule of F1 is that no-one paints their cars all red other than Ferrari
James_mc (@james_mc)
5th January 2011, 13:28
That raises a good question – last red non-Ferrari in F1? (Not including Toyotas or McLarens…)
robbiepblake (@driftin)
5th January 2011, 13:29
Virgin?
James_mc (@james_mc)
5th January 2011, 13:30
I’d describe that as “Black” or “Dennis the Menace” rather than “Red”
Klon (@)
5th January 2011, 13:36
BMS Scuderia Italia in 1992.
GeeMac (@geemac)
5th January 2011, 14:32
Correct.
JCCJCC (@jccjcc)
5th January 2011, 15:27
Williams 1998 had more red than Scuderia Italia
DVC (@dvc)
5th January 2011, 13:48
Ferrari’s red comes from the Italian racing colour. All the Italian teams used to race with it (or something close to it – actually Ferrari tweaked it in about the mid-90s so it looked brighter on TV) in early Grand Prix.
US_Peter (@us_peter)
5th January 2011, 17:52
But Stefan GP isn’t Italian.
shady1983 (@)
5th January 2011, 20:43
Isn’t the original Italian racing colour blue? I seem to remember reading somewhere that blue was the national racing colour, but sometime during 40s/50s/60s Ferrari changed to red because of a dispute with lack of support from the government (or something similar)
Could be wrong but I do recall reading this in one of the historical F1 books…
DavidS (@davids)
6th January 2011, 8:43
Blue is French.
Hallard
5th January 2011, 21:45
Yeah Ferrari used to race their cars in “Rosso Corsa”, which was changed to “Rosso Scuderia” (a red so bright it’s almost orange) if Im not mistaken. The color of this TF110 looks almost identical to the former.
BasCB (@bascb)
5th January 2011, 13:53
Another good reason for NOT granting Stefan GP entry in F1.
DavidS (@davids)
5th January 2011, 17:19
1998 Williams in Winfield livery?
Journeyer
5th January 2011, 20:24
Not quite the right shade, IMO. I’d go with Dallara in 1992.
Scribe (@scribe)
5th January 2011, 19:45
Bah to that Ned. Red doesn’t belong to Ferrari, it’s the italian racing colour. What if Alfa or someone wanted to come back. It’s like saying no one but Lotus can paint their cars green.
US_Peter (@us_peter)
6th January 2011, 6:04
Fair enough, but Stefan GP is not Italian…
Scribe (@scribe)
7th January 2011, 1:11
no argument on that, wonder if the FIA would even allow for two cars looking so simular these days.
J.A. Brown
8th January 2011, 20:40
*facepalm* No one ones colours.
The Sri Lankan
10th January 2011, 9:42
hear hear!
James_mc (@james_mc)
5th January 2011, 13:30
I remember F1 Racing did a feature on it and “allegedly” the numbers all indicated it was a front-runner, on a par with Red Bull. Then again, I seem to remember hearing a story that the 2009 McLaren MP4-DOG apparently surpassed the designer’s expectations and it was a grim beast indeed…
Calum
5th January 2011, 13:35
The 1998 Winfield sponsored Williams cars were red.
As for the Toyota F1 2010 – I wonder, no one will ever know but they spent high and developed early so it would have surely done as well if nit better than the Toyota 2009. I’m disappointed they didn’t gamble and compete in 2010 given they already had a car – it could have turned out well and they could have pulled out on a high!
topdowntoedown (@topdowntoedown)
5th January 2011, 15:45
Especially given how the Honda turned out… :)
Adam Tate
5th January 2011, 21:16
Too true Calum, but the problem is that Toyota is seemingly run by a bunch of pansies and morons. I’m sure someone within the organization was crying out, to let this amazing machine race, but was silenced by the lifeless corporate machine. Pity.
Marc Connell
5th January 2011, 13:35
if it was based on the Toyota, i think it would of been up there with torro rosso and force india!
Marc Connell
5th January 2011, 13:37
also look at there workshop. Looks very good! yes its small but it looks well sorted out.
BasCB (@bascb)
5th January 2011, 13:55
Yep, that is what Toyota Motorsport now sell (it is their Cologne facility). They have the ideas AND the capacity, just no paying customer to fill these workshops up.
Ant
5th January 2011, 14:52
Maybe if they didn’t paint thier car red, they would have been able to race?!
Ant
5th January 2011, 14:53
*allowed to race…
BasCB (@bascb)
5th January 2011, 15:25
It would certainly have helped.
memeyboi69
14th June 2021, 15:07
Maybe they could paint their cars with the Serbian Tricolor because the car was “Serbian”. I know, its 10 years, but still, wanted to