According to prominent F1 publications Formula.hu and RacingNews365.com, Toyota has been in touch with Haas about a potential partnership. RN365 suggests a sponsorship deal, similar to Alfa Romeo ...

While some may have gone their separate ways, others have been hired; and despite the essential absence of an actual F1 program, Toyota Motorsport GmbH is still alive and keeping plenty busy.

The Toyota-Haas F1 announcement Friday came just over a week after the company was among three big Japanese firms which pulled sponsorship money out of the Olympics.

After the FIA's rule change to allow a two-tier budgetary and technical regulation system in F1 next year, Toyota is the first team to come out and say it might not contest the 2010 season.