TOYOTA INTRODUCED NEW RACECARS FOR 2013 FIA ​​WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP

2013 Toyota TS030 HYBRID

• Highlight of the season is the 24-hour race at Le Mans
• Driver teams remain unchanged
• Show your true colors with the Hybrid Racing Collection

COLOGNE : February 2, 2013 - Three wins, three starts from the pole position and the fastest lap four times speak for themselves: Toyota Racing will debut after an outstanding year again participate in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship. The 2012 team had an impressive set of performance TS030 hybrid system with super-capacitor technology in the limelight. Now it denies the full season 2013th The annual highlight is the participation in the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.

In every race Toyota Racing sends two Toyota TS030 Hybrid. The driver line-up of hybrid cars remains unchanged: the vehicle with the number 7 divided Alexander Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima, while Stéphane Sarrazin, Anthony Davidson and Sébastien Buemi at the wheel of car number 8. At the opening race at Silverstone (April 14) Nakajima is lacking, however, as he is in the Super Formula (Formula Nippon former) way. Whoever replaces him will be announced soon.

Fans can join in the meantime, with the Toyota Hybrid Racing collection on the new long-range season. Besides fashionable clothes in the blue-red-white team colors can the Toyota TS030 Hybrid get a model car home. The race cars in 1:43 scale are available for 50 euros. Motorsport feeling on the desk of the practical USB stick or the mouse pad provide the design of the Toyota racing team.

[Source : TOYOTA]