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TOYOTA GAZOO Racing confirmed its participation in the 2018/2019 Super Season of the World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) this past December, then last week announced its driver line-ups. Now the team is unveiling the livery of the Toyota TS050 Hybrid. As for TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's driver line-ups, stability is the name of the game for the #7 still shared by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López. At the wheel of the #8, Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima have been joined by two-time Formula 1 World Champion Fernando Alonso. Anthony Davidson will remain with the team in the capacity of development and reserve driver. So Fernando Alonso has officially joined the ranks of Toyota not only for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans 2018, but also for every round of the 2018/2019 World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) Super Season.
The Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team is proud to debut its new challenger for the 2024 season – the AMR24. On a significant day for Aston Martin, the new Vantage road car and Aston Martin Vantage GT3 join the AMR24 marking a trilogy of reveals.In its iconic racing green livery, complete with Aramco title partner branding, the AMR24 represents a strong and exciting evolution from its predecessor which catapulted the team to eight podiums and 280 points in 2023. The AMR24 evolves the same design philosophy but there is minor carryover with the majority of the parts being new for 2024. The continuous refinement of the AMR24 has resulted in a lighter, more aerodynamically efficient race car, designed to operate across a wider range of circuits.
The Toyota Hilux Dakar with which Fernando Alonso debuted in the Dakar Rally, in the 2020 edition, has just become part of the collection of the Fernando Alonso Circuit and Museum, the sports complex where it is possible to carry out an exhaustive review of the professional career of the Asturian pilot.The Hilux Dakar that Fernando Alonso has received in his museum, located on the outskirts of Oviedo (Asturias), is not a replica, it is exactly the unit with which the Asturian rider competed in the Dakar 2020, where he signed a prominent role at the end in the 13th position of the general classification and set some of the best times in many stages, becoming the best rookie in cars of that edition of the toughest rally in the world.Fernando Alonso has personally received the new member of his permanent collection, which joins, among other competition prototypes, the Toyota TS050 HYBRID with which the Asturian driver won the World Endurance Championship - World Endurance Championship (WEC) - in the 2019-2020 super season and twice won the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
After winning twice at Le Mans and proclaiming Endurance World Champion, the Asturian Toyota driver took the wheel of the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Hilux Dakar for the first time in an exclusive test in the legendary Kalahari desert.Alonso carried out throughout 2019 an intense preparation program for the 2020 Dakar, his debut in the world's toughest rally.In his first Dakar, Fernando Alonso signed a remarkable performance, with the same pace as the favorites in most of the stages, being the fastest driver of TOYOTA GAZOO Racing in several stages and finishing the test among the top thirteen of the general classification .March 28, 2020 marks the first year of Fernando Alonso's first test at the wheel of the Toyota Hilux Dakar, which would ultimately become the start of the learning that led the Asturian Toyota driver to debut in the Dakar, the toughest rally in the world. Alonso carried out two exclusive days of testing in the mythical Kalahari desert to begin discovering the secrets of how to drive a rally-raid car.
The new Toyota GR Yaris is a pure performance car, born from Toyota's title-winning experience in the World Rally Championship. Forged from success in the heat of competition, it brings motorsport technology and design directly to the world of the road car, true to TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's ethos for making ever-better cars that are intrinsically rewarding and fun to drive.Positioned at the top of the all-new Yaris range, the GR Yaris is a unique model that benefits from the design and engineering skills of TOYOTA GAZOO Racing and Tommi Mäkinen Racing, Toyota's partner in the WRC. As well as serving as the official homologation model for development of the next Yaris WRC car, it also has all the attributes required for owners looking to compete successfully in local rally competitions. Scheduled for launch in the second half of 2020, it will follow the GR Supra as Toyota's second global GR model.Presenting the GR Yaris at the 2020 Tokyo Auto Salon, GAZOO Racing President Shigeki Tomoyama said: "One of TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's commitments is to use motorsport to refine its knowhow and its personnel, with the aim of launching world-class production sports cars. While the new GR Supra is a sports car developed through track racing, the Toyota GR Yaris has been devised through our participation in rallies - something that many of our fans have been waiting for."Every aspect of the car has a performance focus: an all-new platform and engine, new suspension, lightweight construction and aerodynamic styling and a new GR-FOUR permanent all-wheel drive system. With high power and low weight, it has all the credentials for competition success, and for delivering exhilarating performance as a super-hot hatch for the road.
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