Toyota Gazoo Racing has announced today that Hisatake Murata (pictured above) is now the team president of its WEC LMP1 effort, and president of Toyota Motorsport GmbH.Murata, is taking over from Toshio Sato, who held the position since April 2015, and has now been reassigned to a key role within...

Toyota's new TS050 Hybrid World Endurance Championship challenger ran for the first time yesterday at the Aragon circuit. The all-new LMP1 prototype undertook its first laps in the hands of Toyota stalwart Stephane Sarrazin on Tuesday's first day of a test also attended by Sebastien Buemi and Mike Conway.Toyota is...

Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Alex Wurz will move into an advisory role with the Toyota World Endurance Championship squad following his retirement from the cockpit.The 41-year-old, who was the first driver signed by Toyota for its WEC entry in 2012, will also act as an ambassador in a...

Four-time World Rally champion Tommi Makinen has been confirmed as the team principal of Toyota's new WRC effort. Toyota Motor Company president and CEO Akio Toyoda, will take on the role of team chairman, named Makinen in his new role.Toyoda's announcement made no mention of Toyota Motorsport GmbH's Cologne base,...

Tommi Makinen is expected to be announced as team principal of Toyota's new-look World Rally Championship effort on Tuesday. The four-time WRC champion has been linked to Toyota since building a private GT86 rally car for Toyota Motor Corporation president and CEO Akio Toyoda last year.Makinen has remained close to...

Toyota will swap to a new engine for its assault on next year's World Endurance Championship.The Japanese manufacturer has announced that it will abandon its existing 3.7-liter normally aspirated V8 powerplant for an engine of undisclosed configuration at the same time as confirming that it will switch from a super-capacitor...

Toyota will remain in the World Endurance Championship when it makes its re-entry into the World Rally Championship in 2017. The automaker, which claimed last year's WEC drivers' and manufacturers' titles, has revealed that it is committed to racing in the LMP1 division until at least the end of the...

Audi and Toyota have expressed satisfaction with the first tests of their respective 2015 World Endurance Championship challengers.Audi completed its maiden test with the latest car to carry the R18 e-tron quattro nomenclature at the Motorland Aragon circuit in Spain, which was described as "encouraging" by the head of the...

Toyota has officially confirmed it will return to the World Rally Championship in 2017 with a Yaris WRC.Toyota Motor Corporation president Akio Toyoda announced during a press conference in Tokyo on Friday that the world's biggest carmaker would end a WRC absence stretching back to the end of 1999.The firm's...

A timetable for Toyota's return to the World Rally Championship is being drawn up in Japan, according to sources in Tokyo, with a 2017 return likely. There is increasing speculation in Japan that a 2017 Toyota WRC program will be firmed up early in the new year.The source said: "Things...