The TS030 will make its race debut in round two of the WEC at Spa for 6 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps race on May 5th. Created by the Cologne-based Toyota Motorsport GmbH squad, which was formally the old Toyota Formula one team, which has developed the new car. They've perviously develop the old Toyota Corolla and Celica WRC carsback in the 1980-1990's. Also, develop Toyota's endurance cars, last one they built was the GT-One, back in 1998-99 before they concentrated on the Formula 1 challenge for the last 10 years.
The TS030's powertrain is based around an all-new 3.4-litre normally-aspirated V8, that uses super-capacitors instead of batteries to store energy from its regenerative braking system similar thing as KERs system in F1. This will carry a maximum of 500kJ of energy can be recovered, but it can only be deployed through one axle. So they're testing at Paul Ricard Circuit in South France to decided were the system will be in the front or the rear of the car ready to race.
Toyota’s driver line-up for the first TS030 will be Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima for the race at Spa and the rest of the season. There will be a second TS030 at Le Mans and onwards. So below some YouTube videos of the car tsting at Paul Ricard with Alex Wurz testing in the car with one of the videos so enjoy.
For my opinion about the story I think its great to see Toyota back in endurance racing. Could they challenge Audi at Le Mans? who knows, its gonna be a tough challenge for Toyota to win Le Mans this year.
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