Toyota Kiwi Guardians Finding the Next World Champion – Toyota Racing Series
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Believe we believe in working together TOYOTA KIWI GUARDIANS FINDING THE NEXT WORLD CHAMPION – TOYOTA RACING SERIES GRANT DALTON: VALERIE ADAMS: RESILIENCE ALL FIRED UP ISSUE THIRTEEN 2016 Contents 20 24 06 12 10 Grant Dalton – Resilience: The 35th America’s Cup 14 06 campaign for Emirates Team New Zealand is in full flight, full frenzy mode. Same old story: so much to do, so little time. Is your child ready for a phone of their own? The 16 Parenting Place provides some useful advice on things 2016 The Toyota Festival – rumoured to be the most to consider. 10 successful Toyota Festival yet, the three day event was this year held in the picturesque Central Otago All fired up – There’s no rest for Toyota’s ambassador drawing a generous crowd. 20 and shot put golden girl Valerie Adams, in the lead-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics in August. DNA Proven – Toyota’s drawn on its proven four-wheel Plugging in and charging up your car is no longer a 14 drive heritage and combined it with the premium level of fit and finish to introduce the all-new medium- 38 thing of the future as Toyota is switching to a Prius rugged diesel Fortuner. Hybrid Electric Vehicle option in its Signature Range. Welcome to our first issue of 2016. At Toyota we have many long-term partners and ambassadors whom we work alongside. With the America’s Cup scheduled for June 2017 we catch up with Grant Dalton, who talks about what is going on in the team now and more importantly the resilience the team has developed after two successive losses. He talks about the significance of the team in one of the hardest periods of the team’s history, and about the team spirit dating back to before his time in the Kirsty Morris-Rickard team. Their determination and focus remain fixed on the finite goal of winning. Editor Grant also talks of the support of their sponsors and suppliers who believe in them. We’ll hear more from the team in coming issues of Believe as we prepare as a nation to support the 35th America’s Cup. Editorial Shot-put golden girl and Olympian Valerie Adams, another Toyota ambassador, is all fired up as she has recently returned to the international stage after having Disclaimer: Toyota NZ has made every endeavour a period of convalescence following surgeries and injury recovery. We catch up to ensure that the text details and specification with Valerie and her short- and longer-term goals as the Rio Olympics loom. information contained in this issue of Believe are Motorsport has a huge impact in this issue, as we unwrap the season that’s accurate as at 1 June 2016. Toyota NZ Limited reserves been with some of the highlights, as well as reinforce the continued attraction the right at any time to introduce any changes deemed necessary to improve the vehicles shown or for any other of the Toyota Racing Series to international drivers from elite development reason. For further information contact 0800TOYOTA. programmes. Alongside international competitors we take a look at three 2 Believe 52 58 62 44 46 Living in the Moment – Toyota made a fittingly stylish Toyota Kiwi Guardians – A new programme 44 debut appearance at Milan Design week showcasing the 58 to help families explore New Zealand’s great Setsuna, a concept car made primarily out of wood. outdoors was recently launched by Toyota and the Department of Conservation. A Change of Pace - The Heart Foundation launch 52 its Go Red for Women campaign, which aims to Working Together is the Key – solving an ongoing increase awareness of heart disease in women, and 60 issue of lost keys in Antarctica. raise funds to underpin life-saving research and prevention programmes. aspiring local names who have done well in the 2016 Toyota Racing Series: Taylor Cockerton, Brendon Leitch and James Mark Baker Munro. The trio competed against 17 international drivers Contributor during the five weeks, between them scoring a race win, six podium finishes and two fastest laps. The Toyota Kiwi Guardians programme has now been Mark Baker is a consultant specialising in launched in conjunction with the Department of Conservation. communications and media management, providing The programme encourages families to explore the great a range of services to clients through his company, outdoors in New Zealand and aims to increase Kiwi kids’ Veritas Communications Limited. A passionate connections with the natural world across the nation. Twenty follower of motorsport “since ages ago," he counts sites are currently dotted around New Zealand and there will himself fortunate to have witnessed first-hand most of be approximately 50 more sites operational by the end of 2016. this country’s finest motorsport events and has been These are just tasters of some of the articles in this magazine present at the beginning of the careers of many of New that focus on our partnerships and reinforce Toyota’s eight Zealand’s current motorsport household names. Believe values. Mark says Toyota’s passionate commitment to New Whatever your interests, we think there will be something Zealand’s rising motor racing stars is unprecedented inside this issue that will strike a chord with you. and is delivering Kiwi drivers into the highest levels of We believe in working together. the sport worldwide. Believe 3 We believe in respecting others. Welcome to another edition of Believe 2016 marks the 50th year that Toyota has been in business in New Zealand. The brand came to this country at the initiative of two well known local companies: Wright Stephenson and Cable Price Downer. It was in local ownership for about half Thank you for your business tomorrow’s customers. You’ll of its history but since the early 1990s and loyalty. Over the years, the see that commitment expressed it has been wholly owned by Toyota number of Toyotas on the roads has in the latest generation of the Motor Corporation in Japan. However, grown to almost 800,000 - that Prius featured in this issue. But it has always had local management is about one in four vehicles in you will also see the philosophy and all retail dealerships are owned New Zealand carrying the Toyota of continuous improvement and and operated by Kiwi investors and badge. Not bad for 50 years’ work. a relentless drive to do better managers. Toyota has always committed However, Toyota is not a company expressed in the commitment to being embedded in the local that spends a lot of time celebrating of people like Valerie Adams and community serving Kiwi customers. its achievements of the past. Our Grant Dalton as they strive to Toyota also believes in working vision is to lead the way to the future reach pinnacles of their sports. together - a theme that resonates of mobility with the safest and There is plenty of good reading in throughout this issue of Believe most responsible ways of moving this issue, which speaks to the heart magazine. Its record of working people. We continue to pour our of Toyota’s passion for working together with local retail dealerships efforts into making ever-better together to achieve ever-better and customers for the past 50 cars - ones that deliver increasing fuel outcomes - for customers, for years has helped Toyota to be the efficiency, lower carbon footprints, society and for the planet. Enjoy! #1 choice for New Zealanders for greater safety, better styling and the past 28 consecutive years. improved value for today’s and Alistair Davis Believe 5 GRANT DALTON: RESIL 6 Believe IENCE DESPITE WHAT MANY PEOPLE MAY THINK, THE 35TH AMERICA’S CUP CAMPAIGN FOR EMIRATES TEAM NEW ZEALAND IS IN FULL FLIGHT, FULL FRENZY MODE. SAME OLD STORY: SO MUCH TO DO, SO LITTLE TIME. Believe 7 Amazingly there is just over one year control. It takes an hour to get things to go until the first race of the Louis sorted. You know your competitors are Vuitton Qualifiers in Bermuda. eating miles out of you like Pac-Man By this stage of the last eating Pac-Dots. The sodden sail is 34th campaign towards San Francisco dragged downstairs along with many we were well ahead of the other teams. gallons of water. Your bunk is now wet We were just about to be the first to and downstairs will be like a sail loft for launch an AC72 race boat and begin the next 24 hours. The person to take the relentless process of testing and over your watch is now repairing the development on the Hauraki Gulf, sail. You face another four hours on doing our very best to hide the amazing At the time you don’t know how you deck before the oasis of a now wet bunk innovations our design team had will find the motivation to dust yourself becomes a reality. It seems things conceived in the hope they would be off and get back in the ring, not give can’t possibly get any worse, which of enough to win back the America’s Cup. up and have another shot at winning. course they can and sometimes do – It was a full-feel good campaign. Deep down you know there is one thing the replacement sail you have hoisted We were leading the way, the other you need to find to take that first step… rips apart! teams were having their challenges resilience. It is something everyone It is this sort of experience that in design, breakages, speed, control, has. No one goes through life without teaches you about resilience.