Performance
Overall the car and the season was considered to be a disaster, with the team, now in its third season of competition managing only a second consecutive eighth place Constructors Championship finish. The ramifications of the car's poor performance reared its ugly head with some key departures; technical director Gustav Brunner was fired mid-season and Cristiano da Matta soon followed having been blamed himself for lacklustre performances.
With the arrival of Mike Gascoyne as technical director, alongside the announcements of Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher for 2005 it could be argued that the Toyota F1 operation took on a slightly different feel over the course of the 2004 season.
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