Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Toyota ta riƙe jerin direbobin su don, amma kakar ta kasance mai wahala. Dukkanin Toyota (tare da motocin Williams) an cire su daga Grand Prix na Kanada
don gudanar da sassan haram. Cristiano da Matta, bayan rashin jin daɗin wasan kwaikwayon, ya bar ƙungiyar bayan Grand Prix na Jamus kuma an maye gurbinsa da ɗan Brazil Ricardo Zonta, wanda ya kasance direba na uku na ƙungiyar. Zonta ya tuka Toyota a zagaye huɗu masu zuwa, kafin a maye gurbinsa da ɗan Italiyanci Jarno Trulli, wanda ya bar ƙungiyar masana'antar Renault. Panis, a halin yanzu, ya sanar da yin ritaya daga tsere, kuma ya yi murabus kafin tseren karshe na kakar a Brazil don ba da damar Zonta, wanda ya yi nesa da Trulli, don yin gasa a tseren gidansa. Babu Trulli ko Zonta da suka zira kwallaye ga tawagar a waccan tseren na ƙarshen kakar, kodayake Trulli ya cancanci shiga cikin manyan kyaututtukan da ya halarta. Toyota ta kawo tsohon Jordan da Renault mai zane Mike Gascoyne a farkon shekara don kula da ci gaban motar, wanda ya inganta a cikin shekara. Teamungiyar ta sami sama da rabin maki da suka samu a 2003, amma sun daidaita mafi kyawun ƙarshensu na biyar a United States Grand Prix tare da Panis kuma sun ci gaba da matsayi na 8 a gasar zakarun masu kera.