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Toyota Ready to Defend Electric Pikes Peak Record
Toyota Ready to Defend Electric Pikes Peak Record

27 Jun 2013, 09:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s the second practice day at Pikes Peak and Toyota seems to be ready to defend its Electric Class record in the famous climb race. Driven by Rod Millen, former Pikes Peak overall record ...

 
Toyota Supra Smokes a Mercedes C63 AMG
Toyota Supra Smokes a Mercedes C63 AMG

26 Jun 2013, 13:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Here is another luxury sports car driver that got angry from too many Toyota Supra taillights in his field of view. This time, the Supra Titan races against something more refined than a Corvette...

 
Watch the Two TS030 Racecars at Le Mans
Watch the Two TS030 Racecars at Le Mans

25 Jun 2013, 10:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Since 2012, Toyota came back to endurance racing, with a new hybrid technology, specially created to go after and take down the Audi e-trons that won 12 out of 14 races since 2000. While last yea...

 
Unlucky Kurt Busch Placed on Fourth in Toyota/Save Mart 350
Unlucky Kurt Busch Placed on Fourth in Toyota/Save Mart 350

24 Jun 2013, 20:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota NASCAR driver Kurt Busch had its car running perfectly at Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 race held on Sonoma Raceway, but it was the luck that wasn’t on its side. He finished fo...

 
Watch Two TRD Supercharged Toyota Tundras Doing the 1/4
Watch Two TRD Supercharged Toyota Tundras Doing the 1/4

24 Jun 2013, 10:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Trying to go fast in a pick-up truck has always been a stupid idea, but it sure is awesome to see a huge bulky vehicle launching from the stoplight. Totally disregarding fuel consumption, common ...

 
See Toyota Racing Team Up-Close at Le Mans 24H
See Toyota Racing Team Up-Close at Le Mans 24H

24 Jun 2013, 09:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Sudden-changing weather, crashes, yellow flags, technical problem and the regrettably death of Allan Simonsen made it hard for Toyota this year. Still, the team achieved second place and almost took...

 
Toyota Gets Podium Finish at Le Mans
Toyota Gets Podium Finish at Le Mans

24 Jun 2013, 08:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / This year, Toyota Racing bravely overcame changing weather and technical problems achieving a podium finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was a hard race, which saw bad weather, skids, yellow fl...

 
Toyota GT 86 Receives NASCAR Heart
Toyota GT 86 Receives NASCAR Heart

21 Jun 2013, 13:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Want to see something scary? You’ve come to the right place, as this Toyota GT 86 bears a monstrous engine under its hood. RS-R and Flatwell thought that a modified flat four is not an opti...

 
Toyota Posts Impressive Le Mans Qualifying Results
Toyota Posts Impressive Le Mans Qualifying Results

21 Jun 2013, 11:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The first qualification round for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was pretty tough for all the racing teams, including Toyota, which had some problems again. The qualifying day was interrupted by three r...

 
This Is the Lexus LFA GTE that Nobody Saw Racing
This Is the Lexus LFA GTE that Nobody Saw Racing

20 Jun 2013, 15:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motorsport GmbH was planing to race this hardcore Lexus LFA in the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season, but they abandoned the project... The reason was that the racing team...

 
Three Generations of Toyota Le Mans Racers Come Together
Three Generations of Toyota Le Mans Racers Come Together

20 Jun 2013, 09:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With only two days left until the big race at Le Mans this weekend, the Japanese automaker Toyota has released a set of pictures with the current and the former two prototypes that run for 24 hours ...

 
Hyundai Crash Almost Ruined Toyota Pikes Peak Project
Hyundai Crash Almost Ruined Toyota Pikes Peak Project

18 Jun 2013, 15:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota is ready to race at the Pikes Peak International Hill climb next week, but we forgot to tell you that their project could’ve terminated before the actual race. The automaker will rac...

 
Toyota Showcases Its Racing Hybrid Technology
Toyota Showcases Its Racing Hybrid Technology

18 Jun 2013, 14:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We were telling you earlier that Toyota took the weekend’s practice test with flying colors for the upcoming 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race. And now, they posted another video to showcase ...

 
Toyota Aims to Improve Its Electric Record at Pikes Peak
Toyota Aims to Improve Its Electric Record at Pikes Peak

18 Jun 2013, 08:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota wants to defend its electric record with the EV P002 race car at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Official testing this weekend turned out well for Toyota Motorsport and Toyota Rac...

 
Toyota Ready for 2013 Le Mans with Upgraded Hybrids
Toyota Ready for 2013 Le Mans with Upgraded Hybrids

17 Jun 2013, 15:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Japanese automaker Toyota is ready for yet another 24 Hours of Le Mans challenge a year after making its debut in the world’s most famous endurance motorsport event. Having prepared two upg...

 
Toyota Is Ready for Le Mans
Toyota Is Ready for Le Mans

17 Jun 2013, 13:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A year after its debut, Toyota is ready to attend the 90th edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours, which will take place on the Circuit de la Sarthe in France between 22-23rd of June. Toyota Racing has ...

 
Toyota Loses Power at Pocono - Still Finishes Race
Toyota Loses Power at Pocono - Still Finishes Race

11 Jun 2013, 15:46 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota’s NASCAR racing team confronted several engine failures in the earlier races, which led the them tho reduce the racing car’s power output in order to last longer. TRD didn&rsqu...

 
Toyota GT 86 Goes Racing in New Zealand
Toyota GT 86 Goes Racing in New Zealand

9 Jun 2013, 14:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Good news guys! The renowned Toyota GT 86 coupe mean little racer will be introduced on New Zealand’s race tracks this year. Toyota New Zealand has recently released a teasing video, saying...

 
TRD President Lee White to Retire This Year
TRD President Lee White to Retire This Year

5 Jun 2013, 15:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lee White, the man who joined Toyota Racing Development (TRD) in 1997 and introduced the automaker in American racing series has recently retired from his president post due to “family health ...

 
Hardcore Toyota GT 86 Is Ready to Hit the Track
Hardcore Toyota GT 86 Is Ready to Hit the Track

5 Feb 2013, 16:29 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Can you take a low-cost coupe and turn it into a brilliant race car? Well, it seems like Buckingam’s GPRM already did it with the Toyota GT86. We’re talking about a GT4 version of the...