Toyota commits to World Endurance Championship’s new hypercar class
Toyota goes racing within the World Endurance Championship’s new hypercar class. The Japanese firm confirmed on Friday that it’ll take part within the new race class for the 2020-2021 season.
The automaker’s announcement got here after ultimate technical particulars and rules have been offered in Le Mans, France, earlier as we speak. Toyota’s dedication to the brand new class additionally follows Aston Martin, which confirmed it is going to race a Valkyrie within the hypercar class. Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus additionally confirmed its involvement final yr.
Toyota GR Tremendous Sport idea
Toyota GR Tremendous Sport idea
Toyota mentioned it welcomes the problem of latest rivals within the hypercar class. The corporate has been a power to be reckoned with and the final producer standing within the outgoing LMP1 class with its TS050 Hybrid Le Mans prototype.
“Thanks to the ACO and FIA for his or her onerous work in finalizing these rules, which we hope will carry a couple of new golden age of endurance racing, with a number of producers combating for Le Mans and the FIA World Endurance Championship,” Shigeki Tomoyama, Gazoo Racing Firm President, mentioned.
Every producer that partakes within the class might want to homologate 25 street automobiles, which factors again to Toyota’s earlier announcement that it’ll construct a brand new hypercar. Within the second season, automakers might want to construct 100 street automobiles.
The images Toyota supplied of its future Le Mans hypercar race automobile characteristic the Gazoo Racing Tremendous Sport idea first proven on the Tokyo Motor Auto Salon in 2018. Whereas the idea wore a plain silver coloration, the Tremendous Sport idea appears wild decked out in Toyota Gazoo Racing colours. The corporate mentioned each the street automobile and race automobile are at present present process improvement and design at technical facilities in Toyota Metropolis, Higashi-Fuji, Japan, and Cologne, Germany.
We cannot have to attend an excessive amount of longer to see what every producer has cooking for the hypercar class. The race automobiles will debut in fall of 2020 and we’ll certainly see extra firms reveal their intentions to sort out the brand new racing class. The FIA’s rules make it far less expensive to run a hypercar in comparison with the LMP1 class.