Kamui Kobayashi has revealed that until he stepped in at Toyota for the injured Timo Glock, his racing career was all but over due to a lack of money.
Having spent all his yen competing in GP2, Kamui has said that his fall back plan was to go back to work in his father’s sushi restaurant.
Sadly for him the Toyota board meet in a couple of weeks to decide whether or not to stay in F1 and if the signs are anything to go by, then poor old Kobayashi may as well get ready for a life of putting bits of raw fish on a little conveyor belt...
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