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Toyota achieved 2nd place in the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans. Toyota started recruiting staff for their Le Mans efforts in 1997, with an aim to start a Formula One team. Toyota's efforts for a Le Mans car was the Toyota GT-One. Driver line-up included ex-Formula One drivers Martin Brundle, Thierry Boutsen and Ukyo Katayama. The 3.6-litre twin ...
For 2023 season he left TMAR and return as Valino's works driver and will debut a Toyota GR86 which makes it the first time he compete in a non Nissan S-Chassis car. [7] On 25 December 2022 it is announced that he will bring his D1GP championship winning S15 to compete in Drift Masters European Championship as full time entry alongside his D1GP ...
Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) is a motorsport division of the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota. Alongside competition activities, the division develops technologies for the Gazoo Racing ( GR ) sub-brand of Toyota's sports and performance-oriented production road cars.
Founder Kazuhiko "Smokey" Nagata began his career as a mechanic for Toyota as their youngest employee. He then became a tuner and fabricator at Trust/GReddy.As he began using the Trust shop for his own personal projects in 1978, the name "Top Secret" was born, as a nickname for his discreet work at the Trust facility.
Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a Japanese professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King (ドリキン, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport.
From 2007 till 2019, Toyota was represented in the GT500 by its luxury brand Lexus and its line of GT cars, such as the SC430 and LC500. However, from 2020 onwards, Toyota began using the Supra again in both the GT500 and GT300 series. In 2000, the Falken team entered the 24 Hours Nürburgring race with the 2-liter turbo version. Modified for ...
One of the key sources responsible for the international spread of drifting is the Japanese manga and anime series Initial D, which features Takumi Fujiwara, a high school student who learns to drift on the Mount Akina tōge (mountain pass) using a custom Toyota AE86. The series features a large number of Japanese performance vehicles ...
The Toyota GR010 Hybrid is a sports prototype racing car developed for the 2021 Le Mans Hypercar rules in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The car is the successor of the Toyota TS050 Hybrid , which competed in the WEC from 2016 to 2020 , achieving two double WEC world titles and three straight victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans from ...