Toyota has taken the covers off the up to date model of the Le Mans Hypercar that may contest the 2026 World Endurance Championship.
Christened the Toyota TR010 Hybrid, the V6 twin-turbo-powered automotive marks the following iteration of the GR010 Hybrid that has been in service because the inception of the Hypercar class in 2021.
That is solely the third time Toyota has launched a serious replace to its LMH prototype after earlier revisions early in its lifecycle in 2022 and ‘23, which included the change to narrower entrance and wider rear tyres and different modifications to make the automotive extra driveable.
The TR010 Hybrid that may make its debut in Qatar 1812km in March contains a model new livery, with Toyota ditching its matte black color scheme in favour of a red-white-and-black design.
Actual modifications in regards to the automotive are but to be revealed, however the footage clearly present a closely revised front-end, together with new headlamps that borrow the design philosophy from Toyota’s highway automotive vary.
It’s solely the third time within the present-day WEC that Toyota has revamped the naming conference of its top-line prototypes. All its LMP1 vehicles within the earlier decade carried the TS0X0 designation; the TS030 that debuted in 2012 was adopted by the TS040 in 2014 and the TS050 two years later.
It launched the LMH-spec GR010 Hybrid in 2021, selling the brand new Gazoo Racing subsidiary that Toyota had established.
TR010 Hybrid
Picture by: Toyota
Nevertheless, the Gazoo Racing branding has now been phased out completely from Toyota’s hypercar, coinciding with the Japanese producer renaming the analysis and growth centre in Cologne, the place the automotive is constructed, to Toyota Racing GmbH, efficient 7 March.
Its WEC group may even now race beneath the Toyota Racing moniker, dropping Gazoo Racing utterly from its title.
Nevertheless, Toyota will proceed to make use of the Gazoo Racing model in different areas, together with its profitable World Rally Championship programme the place it fields the GR Yaris Rally1. The newly-renamed Toyota Racing GmbH division will proceed to assist Gazoo Racing’s different endeavours, together with by way of the provision of engines for rallying and producing GT4 vehicles.
Toyota ended the 2025 WEC season second within the Hypercar producers’ standings after ending its win drought within the Bahrain finale.
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TR010 Hybrid
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