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It was therefore a relatively easy decision to select him to replace Alex. We know that he is capable of doing a good job alongside St\u00e9phane and Mike.<\/i> \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The other Toyota trio will remain unchanged from last season, with S\u00e9bastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson, and Kazuki Nakajima. 2016 will be the year of reclaiming for the 2014 world champions, who will unveil an entirely new car, the TS050, with a completely revamped color scheme. This change is linked to Toyota adopting the Gazoo Racing name last May and deciding to embrace Toyota&#8217;s usual racing colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a season as a reserve driver, Kamui Kobayashi becomes a full-time driver for Toyota, replacing the retired Alexander Wurz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":39229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,4],"tags":[752],"class_list":["post-12661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-wec","category-wec","tag-kobayashi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kamui Kobayashi becomes a starter at Toyota - Motorsinside English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/wec\/news\/20686-kamui-kobayashi-becomes-starter-toyota\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kamui Kobayashi becomes a starter at Toyota - 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