Toyota's flagship SuperGT team TOM'S suffered its worst season since 2012 as neither of its two cars finished inside the top five in the championship. Here's what went wrong and how the outfit plans to returning to winning ways next season:
TOM'S went into this month's final round of the championship at Motegi with the smallest of chances of defending its unexpected 2021 title, but a disappointing run to sixth for the #37 KeePer-sponsored Toyota GR Supra of Sacha Fenestraz and Ritomo Miyata put paid to any such hopes.
But with Rookie Racing taking over as this year's top Toyota team - helped by none other than long-time TOM'S technical guru Tsutomu Tojo - questions need to be asked about how the team can recover next year.TOM'S has been to a certain extent a victim of driver market machinations. Both halves of its title-winning 2017 pairing, Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa, are no longer around, having departed to race in Formula E and the FIA World Endurance Championship respectively.
"For next year, TOM’S will remain a two-car team with four drivers. Of course Sacha is leaving and we’ll have one new driver. But the combination is the point we are thinking about." Fuji was also the happiest hunting ground for the #37 pairing of Fenestraz and Miyata, who scored their first win together at the track in August after losing out due to a penalty in the May race .
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