That is what Toyota's lawyers have said in defence. It sounds to me like a confession though, of course, a statement given to the media by a firm of lawyers cannot be regarded as a confession. If it looks like a duck, has webbed feet, goes 'quack' and can swim, I'd say I was looking at a duck.
Angelo Santini and Mauro Iacconi will have sung their hearts out. Everything was on computers and you cannot argue with that. The more difficult business is moving away from that hard evidence. Gustav Brunner, former Chief Designer at Toyota Motorsport, René Hilhorst, formerly chief aerodynamicist, and Ove Andersson, once the team principal, are all charged under German (commercial) competition law.
I could name a fourth man, still at Toyota Motorsport, who must be having restless nights. He's the guy who, in May 2003, sent an internal e.mail to all personnel telling them to destroy all Ferrari material. I know this for a fact, but I could never prove it. That would mean betraying a source and journalists have gone to gaol rather than do that. I will never, ever, betray a source.
If I go to gaol, what does it mean? It means that I have credibility as a journalist. I'll be awash with Brownie points.
A little while ago I reported how Toyota had cheated in craft exams in Japan. I have no idea how these exams are perceived in Japan, but basically Toyota people on the examining board gave Toyota mechanics, working in Toyota dealerships, all the answers via the Internet. I do not know how important these tests are in the wider scheme of things but I do know that every single exam or test I've undertaken was important to me at the time. The Cycling Proficiency Test was important at the time I took it, and my Swimming Certificate was important at the time.
There is an annual test for car mechanics in Japan and what does Toyota do? Toyota cheats. Toyota seems to cheat as a matter of principle.
Toyota is the world Number One maker of cars. It long ago passed General Motors as a maker of cars, 60% of the General's business in the States is with trucks. Toyota achieved that position because it makes good products.
Toyota has been up to its tricks in NASCAR. DaimlerChrysler has just won US$6.5 million against Bill Davis Racing which was found guilty of developing a Toyota Tundra Truck for use in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 2007 while still under contract to run Dodge Intrepids in NASCAR's Nextel Cup.
There is a counter action in process. My Yankee buddies may all be as sceptical as me (skeptical, since they are Yanks and spell funny) and we reckon that Toyota will pick up the bill. A bill that size would be a kick in the bollocks for me, but Toyota makes that much profit every hour.
I cannot fathom why Toyota cheats, yet cheating is endemic in its corporate culture. Toyota doesn't cheat where it matters, in the market place, it offers a fine product at a competitive price, Toyota deserves to succeed.
As soon as it gets into motor sport, Toyota throws all its values out of the window.
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