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Cregan to leave Toyota at end of season
01 September 2008Toyota Formula 1 team boss Richard Cregan will leave Toyota at the end of the 2008 Formula One season the team has announced on Monday. Cregan will be replaced as team manager by Jens Marquardt, who has been at Toyota Motorsport since 2000, working in the engine engineering department.
Cregan, 48, has decided to move on and take a new role elsewhere within motorsport, ending his stay at Toyota Motorsport 24 years after joining as a rally mechanic.
He became operations manager for Toyota's programmes in the World Rally Championship and Le Mans 24 Hours. When the Formula 1 project was announced he assisted Ove Andersson in making the plan a reality and became General Manager F1 Operation in 2002 before stepping up to Team Manager in 2004.
Cregan's replacement Jens Marquardt played a key role in developing Toyota's first Formula 1 engines and became Group Leader Engine Track Test Engineering in 2003. He was also a significant figure in the smooth start-up of Toyota's engine supply to Williams and has been Manager Engine Customer Supply since August 2006.
Chairman and Team Principal Tadashi Yamashina said: "We are very sad to be losing a team member of Richard's qualities but we understand his reasons and we wish him the very best of luck in his new challenge."
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