Longtime Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon will be stepping back from operational duties for the 2024 season as the Cologne, Germany-based team reviews its management organization.Vasselon’s role will be filled for the season by David Floury, who dovetailed race engineering roles with Toyota with serving as ORECA...

Toyota Gazoo Racing has unveiled its new-for-2021 Hypercar – the GR010 HYBRID, which is set to contest an all-new top class in the 2021 FIA World Endurance championship, including the Le Mans 24 Hours.The reigning WEC champions and three-time Le Mans winners will defend their titles in 2021 with the...

Toyota Gazoo Racing's Prologue-topping times were set while its TS050 HYBRIDs were running effectively unrestricted, without respecting the boost or fuel management as per their set EoT (Equivalence of Technology).The team ran its cars unrestricted until 5 p.m. local time at Paul Ricard yesterday. The reason given to RACER by...

A fishy set of circumstances has been blamed for the clutch failure that took the No. 7 Toyota TS050 HYBRID out of contention for the win at Le Mans last weekend.Ten hours into the 24-hour contest, polesitter Kamui Kobayashi left the No. 7's pit box after a routine stop under...

Toyota Gazoo racing has revealed its TS050 Hybrid LMP1 car which will compete in its 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship program, which includes a three-car entry for the Le Mans 24 Hours. The new car will be powered by a brand new 2.4-litre V6 turbo engine, with an 8MJ hybrid...

Audi's factory Formula E entry in 2017-'18 will not impact its on-going World Endurance Championship program.The German manufacturer announced earlier this month that it would increase its involvement in the existing Abt team to make it a full works entry for 2017-'18, but Head of Audi Sport Wolfgang Ullrich said...

Toyota is confident the engine problems that forced its two TS050 Hybrids out of the Spa World Endurance Championship round will not reoccur at the Le Mans 24 Hours.Analysis of the failures, which robbed the #5 Toyota TS050 Hybrid of likely victory last month, has indicated that they were caused...

LMP1 manufacturers will be permitted to race only three distinct aerodynamic configurations in next year's World Endurance Championship and then only two from 2017.The introduction of the limit follows the escalation of aero development by Porsche and Audi through 2015, during which they each raced at least three different bodywork...

Williams Formula 1 development driver and GP2 race winner Alex Lynn has revealed aspirations to race at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Lynn stated his desire after getting a chance to sample Toyota's TS040 Hybrid LMP1 car at last Sunday's World Endurance Championship rookie test in Bahrain."I'm a racing driver...

An extension of the new limit on hybrid power for next year's Le Mans 24 Hours to the rest of the World Endurance Championship in 2017 is opposed by ToyotaThe Japanese manufacturer is arguing that the rule limiting hybrid power release to 300kW would hurt its concept more than those...