Toyota introduced its new product, HYBRID 2012 TS030 Le Mans Racing Car Type Toyota introduced its new product, HYBRID 2012 TS030 Le Mans Racing Car Type - Auto Car Update

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Toyota introduced its new product, HYBRID 2012 TS030 Le Mans Racing Car Type


Toyota Racing has just announced more details of its participation in the World Endurance Championship FIA, including its intention to follow the race the two cars in the race. Toyota Racing plans to enroll two TS030 HYBRID cars in the next Le Mans 24 Hours (2012, June 16 to 17). Meanwhile, participation in the next round will be confirmed again.




Three driver Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima has confirmed to drive the car while discussions take place to complete the driver line up for the others. Additionally, Toyota Racing just got a new junior driver, he is Andrea Caldarelli from Pescara, Italy.


HYBRID TS030 series is the continuation of the Toyota TS010 and TS020 and iconic cars that participated in the event of a successful Le Mans in the era of the 1990s. The initials TS have the meanings ToyotaSport.

R-THS (Toyota Hybrid System - Racing) powertain designed to deliver maximum performance. In this system, there are features all-new 3.4 liter V8 petrol engine and hybrid system with the storage capacitor being developed by an official partner of Toyota, namely Nisshinbo.

The test team will conduct its first test in HYBRID TS030 to evaluate the benefits. In the current regulations, the motor system manufactured by Aisin AW front, while the rear motor system developed by a team official partner Denso. The regulation imposes limits on hybrid systems for the recovery of a maximum of 500 kJ between the braking zones while limiting the spread of only two wheels.

During exclusive test session in the French track, including the walk in darkness, HYBRID TS030 completed several hundred kilometers by showing an impressive increase in terms of reliability and performance for the initial stage in this car testing program.

Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre HYBRID TS030 put through its paces at the Paul Richard, they are in a team with a 30-year-old driver, Hiroaki Ishiura from Japan who is a candidate to join the driver line-up at the race in which Toyota Racing participated with two cars .


So, would you like to buy this car?



Reference : Lincah

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