August 16 visitors to the Monterey Peninsula will have the chance to hear six experts from the high performance and motorsports industries in a discussion on the developments that materialized over the last 25 years. Toyota’s "Evolution to Revolution" forum will be an entertaining discussion with stories of innovation, planning, perseverance, exact science and plain dumb luck.

The free-wheeling discussion will be hosted by self-proclaimed failed motorcycle racer and Speed Channel's Dave Despain.

The experts who will share their views are Richard Cregan, Pierre Dupasquier, Herb Fishel, Mario Illien, Richard Karlstetter and Phil Remington.

In his 23 years at Toyota Motorsport, Cregan has held several positions. He has been F1 Operations General Manager since 1999 and Team Manager since 2004.

Recent retiree Dupasquier has gained almost 180 world championship titles including about 30 in rallying, 7 in Formula One, 55 in motorcycle grand prix racing, 11 in Superbikes and 19 in the Cross Country Rally World Cup.

Fishel has been the most influential for GM's performance programs throughout the second half of the 20th century. He was included in the 100 most influential people in the first 50 years of hot rodding by Hot Rod magazine and also belonged in the 12 most influential people in racing by Racer magazine.

Co-founder of Ilmor Engineering, Illien has designed engines that have won in Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR and has recently moved into MotoGP with a brand new high revving engine for this season.

Director of Shell's Global Fuel Technology Group, Karlstetter specifically focuses on next generation fuel technologies. Fifteen years ago, he joined Shell leading various departments like the Shell Global Solutions Germany vehicle testing group.

Known as "Mr. Fix-it" around the pits, All American Racers' Remington was responsible in running the first American F1 car at Monte Carlo, spurred the Ford Shelby Cobra Team win the sports car war against Ferrari and was in the pits when Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt won Ford's greatest victory at Le Mans.

Keith Dahl, National Manager of Engagement Marketing for Toyota Motor Sales USA, assured that the panelists are experts in their fields and will present an amusing, and maybe even radical view, on what happened in the past and how it may affect future development.

The forum begins at 3:30 p.m. at Laguna Seca Raceway's Red Bull Center as part of Toyota's sponsorship of the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races.