Toyota to change its different management structure in WEC next year after departure of its team director
Toyota is not planning to replace Rob Leupen as team director of its World Endurance Championship squad for next season. It has revealed that the duties at the race track undertaken by the Dutchman, who is leaving Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe in Cologne after 30 years of service, will be taken up by existing team members. TGRE vice-chairman Kazuki Nakajima explained that the plan is “to spread the responsibility with not only one successor”.
Leupen, 60, is also standing down as managing director of TGRE, and it is likely he will be replaced from within, although Nakajima refused to go into detail. “I think we have good people in our company who deserve to take some responsibility, but I will not talk about the possibilities,” he said. Nakajima name-checked Peter Hesse, who took the role of director of business development and customer motorsport in February of this year.
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