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Toyota is the first manufacturer to confirm its participation in the FIA World Endurance Championship using a hybrid system and thereby announcing more details of its forthcoming FIA World Endurance Championship participation, including an intention to race two cars in specific races.
The new team, which is based at Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) in Cologne, Germany, will make its race debut on 5 May in the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The new team, which is based at Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) in Cologne, Germany, will make its race debut on 5 May in the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Toyota Racing intends to enter two TS030 HYBRID cars in the subsequent Le Mans 24 Hours (16-17 June) with a driver line-up of Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima for one car with Andrea Caldarelli as a junior driver, while for its second car the slots havent't been filled yet and negotiations are on though 30-year-old Japanese driver Hiroaki Ishiura is an intending canditate.
The THS-R (Toyota Hybrid System – Racing) powertrain features an all-new V8 3.4litre normally-aspirated petrol engine and hybrid system with capacitor storage developed by official team partner Nisshinbo, front motor system produced by Aisin AW, a rear motor system developed by official team partner DENSO and a brand new carbon fibre LMP1 chassis developed and produced at TMG.
Official partners to the Toyota Racing programme include ZENT, Aisin, Nippon Steel, Takata, Toyoda Gosei and Michelin.
The THS-R (Toyota Hybrid System – Racing) powertrain features an all-new V8 3.4litre normally-aspirated petrol engine and hybrid system with capacitor storage developed by official team partner Nisshinbo, front motor system produced by Aisin AW, a rear motor system developed by official team partner DENSO and a brand new carbon fibre LMP1 chassis developed and produced at TMG.
Official partners to the Toyota Racing programme include ZENT, Aisin, Nippon Steel, Takata, Toyoda Gosei and Michelin.
Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Team President: "Of course we would love to win Le Mans; that is the dream for all competitors in this race. But we are realistic and we know we need to develop and to learn in order to compete with some very strong competition. Our target this year is to show the performance level of our car and particularly the THS-R powertrain. Hybrid is a core technology of Toyota so it is important to demonstrate this in a motorsport arena and we want to prove it can bring a performance advantage, both in terms of lap time and fuel efficiency. Everyone involved in designing, developing and preparing the car – both at TMG and at Motor Sport Division in Japan – has worked incredibly hard to reach this point and we are all very excited to be back on the race track again."
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