Australian driver Ryan Briscoe is backing his Ford to go the distance at the Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race after qualifying fifth fastest in the GTE Pro class.
However, this is a brand that's won the last two runnings of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and there's no reason it won't add third before the weekend's through.
Toyota's hopes of a maiden Le Mans win disappeared during a miserable Saturday night for the team as Porsche seized control of the famous 24-hour race.
Struggling on cold tires after a pit stop, Stanaway locked up and ran straight on at the Mulsanne Hairpin, thudding into the barrier and causing damage to the front of the vehicle. "I had 100 per cent confidence in the auto and when you're in that frame of mind, you can do great things", Kobayashi said.
Until then, the vehicle had barely missed a beat as five times runners-up Toyota set about trying to end years of heartache and become only the second Japanese manufacturer to win the world's greatest endurance race.
They came agonisingly close to winning a year ago but a last lap power failure on Kazuki Nakajima's leading auto handed the victory to Porsche.
After its early puncture, the Marco Sorensen, Nikki Thiim and Richie Stanaway-crewed #97 vehicle completed impressive fightback to lead the way from the #91 Porsche 911 RSR, which was helped back into contention largely thanks to the Collard-induced Safety auto.
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Kobayashi got the vehicle moving slowly before it again stopped, this time for good, with the driver climbing out and walking away.
Japanese rookie Yuji Kunimoto completes the Toyota line-up alongside Nicolas Lapierre and Jose Maria Lopez.
The impact at the approach to the first corner at around 1.30 a.m. caused too much damage to continue.
Nakajima is back at Le Mans this year, sharing the driving of the stricken number eight vehicle with Britain's Anthony Davidson and Switzerland's Sebastien Buemi.
Porsche and Toyota are both back this year and, with Audi having quit prototype sportscar racing at the end of the 2016 season, they are set to face off for glory.
The only other LMP1 entrant is the number four ByKolles Racing ENSO and that retired in the second hour after Britain's Oliver Webb made contact with the wall on the opening lap.
The second Porsche of New Zealanders Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley, along with Germany's Timo Bernhard, was out of contention 18 laps behind after suffering front axle problems.
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