Akio Toyoda checks Toyota’s race automotive designed for WEC’s new Hypercar class

Contemporary from its win previously weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, Toyota has launched a video teasing a tester for the race automotive being developed for the brand new Hypercar class set to exchange the present LMP1 class as the highest class of the World Endurance Championship.

Toyota hasn’t informed us the identify of its new race automotive however the design was previewed a 12 months in the past with the GR Tremendous Sport idea after which once more final week with a teaser picture of the particular racer.

Toyota is presently testing prototypes and on Saturday the automaker launched a teaser video displaying a few of the improvement. In it, Toyota President Akio Toyoda hops behind the wheel to pattern his firm’s newest child.

Teaser for 2020/2021 Toyota World Endurance Championship Hypercar class race automotive

Toyota hasn’t talked about specs, however the GR Tremendous Sport idea probably offers some clues. It featured a 2.Four-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 mounted behind the cabin and sending drive to the rear wheels. An electrical motor-generator was linked to this engine and in addition driving the rear wheels. A second motor-generator sat up entrance, thus forming an all-wheel-drive system. The mixed output of the idea was 986 horsepower.

Per the rules of the Hypercar class, Toyota might want to construct road-going variations sharing powertrain parts and extra components with the race automotive. No less than 25 street variations should be constructed for the primary season, with the quantity leaping to 100 models for following seasons.

There’s nonetheless one season of LMP1 forward of us because the Hypercar class is barely being launched for the 2020/2021 season of the WEC. Along with Toyota, Aston Martin and Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus have each signed up and extra producers are anticipated to observe within the coming months.