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Toyota has unveiled its revamped LMH car for the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season and simultaneously announced a new identify for its factory team.
The Toyota TR010 Hybrid is an evolution of the GR010 Hybrid that made its debut in 2021 and has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice.
The model name change refers to the WEC team being rebranded from Toyota Gazoo Racing to Toyota Racing, as part of wider structural changes at the parent company.
Toyota first teased an updated car in October 2024. It has now been revealed in its race livery after being put through the Windshear wind tunnel in the United States to help the WEC set its Balance of Performance.
The TR010 Hybrid is due to make its competitive debut at the Qatar 1812km in late March. It races in the Hypercar class against other LMHs and LMDh cars.
Technical details are unusually limited at this stage; Toyota has not divulged any alterations under the skin, although several aerodynamic developments are apparent.
These include a new front end with the wheel arches more integrated into the nose and a new rear wing with pronounced endplate.
It is understood that most of the changes are about improving the car’s driveability, which is one of the few things Hypercar manufacturers can address considering outright performance is governed by the championship’s BoP.
Toyota is aiming to get back on top of the Hypercar pecking order after finishing second to Ferrari in the 2025 World Manufacturers’ Championship.

What is Toyota Racing?
Toyota’s sportscar operation is based in Cologne, Germany, and will be known as Toyota Racing from this year.
The manufacturer entered the WEC as Toyota Gazoo Racing from 2016 to 2025. Before that, the motorsport centre in Cologne operated as Toyota Motorsport GmbH or TMG.
The Gazoo Racing brand was created by Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda in 2007 for his own race programme at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, which couldn’t use the Toyota name as it wasn’t financially supported by the main company.
In 2015, Toyota Gazoo Racing was chosen the name of the company’s global factory motorsport operation, consolidating various Toyota racing brands into a single entity.
This came with the launch of GR-badged high-performance road cars, such as the GR Yaris, which were derived from competition car designs, rather than the other way around.
Now, Toyota Gazoo Racing is being reorganised into three divisions with their own branding: Toyota Racing, Gazoo Racing and Toyota Gazoo Rookie Racing (TGR-RR).
According to Toyota, Gazoo Racing will ‘strengthen the motorsports-bred making of ever-better cars and the fostering of talent.’
It will be used for Toyota’s title-winning FIA World Rally Championship programme (which is based in Finland) and its production-based customer racing efforts in Rally2, GT3 and GT4.
Toyota Racing is the new name for the Cologne group. There will be some crossover with Gazoo Racing as Cologne will continue to build engines for the GR Yaris Rally2.
Its headline task will be the continued operation of the WEC programme.
Rookie Racing, meanwhile, is a Japanese race team that has fielded some of Toyota’s experimental, unreleased and concept racecars, such as the Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo2 at the Nürburgring 24 Hours and the hydrogen-fuelled GR Corolla H2 Concept in Super Taikyu.
Its responsibilities will remain unchanged through the restructuring.
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