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 will surprise its opposition with a different car concept when it returns to the World Rally Championship in 2017, says the project's technical chief.After an absence of nearly two decades, Toyota has linked up with four-­time WRC champion Tommi Makinen's team to build a Yaris to the series' new...

Toyota has yet to identify the technical problem that handed a last-gasp victory to Porsche in last weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours.Initial investigations at the track did not reveal why the #5 Toyota TS050 Hybrid suddenly slowed with five minutes of the race to go when Kazuki Nakajima was at...

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...

Tommi Makinen has confirmed production of the first Toyota Gazoo Racing Yaris WRC is about to start - with testing set for spring next year. The Finn has moved to end speculation surrounding the Japanese firm's 2017 return to the World Rally Championship, reconfirming that Cologne-based Toyota Motorsport will develop...

Mads Ostberg has been confirmed as an M-Sport driver for the 2016 World Rally Championship, with Frenchman Eric Camilli a surprise choice of teammate.Elfyn Evans has been dropped from a full-time factoy seat, while Ott Tanak switches to DMACK's new team. Ostberg returns to an M-Sport Ford Fiesta RS WRC...

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...

The future direction of the LMP1 rule book will be mapped out in a meeting of the FIA Endurance Commission on Thursday.The commission will discuss proposals from a number of working groups set up by the FIA and Le Mans 24 Hours organizer the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, which jointly...

The Manor Formula 1 team has ramped up its engineering department with the recent appointment of an experienced hand in Gianluca Pisanello.Pisanello spent seven years with Toyota Motorsport in the roles of data engineer (race team), test engineer and race engineer before leaving at the end of 2009 in the...

Force India will use Toyota Motorsport's wind tunnel facilities in Cologne, Germany for all their aerodynamic testing for the 2015 FIA Formula One world championship and beyond.The team said the switch to Toyota's facility would strengthen their future aerodynamic and development capabilitiesRead more http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2014/12/16714.html