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Tadashi Yamashina

Tadashi Yamashina
Born	(1951-05-08) 8 May 1951 (age 72)
Nationality	Japanese

Tadashi Yamashina (born 8 May 1951^[1]) is the former Team Principal of the Toyota Racing Formula One team, responsible for conducting Toyota's Formula One operations, having taken over from Tsutomu Tomita in June 2007.

Career

Yamashina started work for the Toyota Motor Corporation in 1977, working his way up through the company ranks to become the project general manager at the companies Component & System Development Center’s Vehicle Engineering Division in 1998. Following this, he received a further promotion in 2001 to become the President of the Toyota Technical Centre in the United States, eventually becoming Vice Chairman of Toyota Motorsport in 2006, succeeding Tomita as F1 Team Principal and Chairman in June 2007.

Toyota withdrew from Formula One at the end of the 2009 season but Yamashina remained chairman of Toyota Motorsport GmbH.

References

^ "Notice of the 72nd Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders" (PDF). www.tokai-rika.co.jp. Retrieved 9 October 2021.

External links

Toyota F1 Team Official Site - biography Archived 2008-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
Toyota Motorsport GmbH official site

Panasonic Toyota Racing

Personnel: Ove Andersson; Noritoshi Arai; Gustav Brunner; Humphrey Corbett; Richard Cregan [fi]; Frank Dernie; Remi Decorzent; André de Cortanze; Gianfranco Fantuzzi [pl]; Luca Furbatto; Mike Gascoyne; Dieter Gass; Mark Gillan [ja]; John Howett; René Hilhorst [ja]; Yoshiaki Kinoshita [pl]; Norbert Kreyer [fi]; John Litjens; Luca Marmorini; Jens Marquardt; Jan Monchaux; Francesco Nenci [fi]; Ossi Oikarinen; Ange Pasquali [fi]; Nicolò Petrucci; Dago Rohrer; Julien Simon-Chautemps; Mark Tatham; Keizo Takahashi; Tsutomu Tomita; Pascal Vasselon; Tadashi Yamashina; Jörg Zander