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Toyota is bringing back memories with the Toyota GB race team set to be back in business, which will return to the motorsport activity in the Production Class of this year’s Silverstone enduro with a Toyota GT 86, as part of the Britcar 24 Hours endurance race, the toughest in the country.
The livery of the GT 86 will be similar to that used by the double British Touring Car Championship winning AE86 from the mid-1980s. The British racing version of the GT 86 is currently being developed at the Buckinghamshire technical centre of GPRM, the company that created the BTCC Toyota Avensis prototype.
The new Toyota has all the makings of a great production class racer. We are concentrating our efforts on stripping back the chassis, lightening and strengthening it and of course equipping it with a roll cage and all the other safety gear required, as well as quick-refuelling equipment. Other than that, the GT86 will remain essentially in road car form,” said GPRM’s Gary Blackham.
The new Toyota has all the makings of a great production class racer. We are concentrating our efforts on stripping back the chassis, lightening and strengthening it and of course equipping it with a roll cage and all the other safety gear required, as well as quick-refuelling equipment. Other than that, the GT86 will remain essentially in road car form,” said GPRM’s Gary Blackham.
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