The first GT4 racing version of the Toyota GT86 will hit the track later this month following completion of the first chassis by Buckingham-based motorsport engineering pioneer GPRM.

Team Toyota GB is celebrating a remarkableUKracing debut for its GT86 sports car , which claimed eighth place overall and third in its class in Britain’s toughest race, the Britcar 24 Hours on its conclusion yesterday (Sunday) at Silverstone. Crewed […]

Team Toyota GB mark their return to competitive action this weekend at the Britcar 2012 24 hour race at Silverstone. You can follow the race live via our blog, including live streaming of the race from 3.30pm on Saturday. Links […]

Racing the Team Toyota GB GT86 will represent a homecoming for Chris, who won back-to-back touring car championships with the team in the car’s spiritual forebear, the Toyota Corolla GT AE86. The elder statesman of the team at 61, he […]

Stefan, 30, is one of the gradautes from Chris’s racing academy and began his career in karting before switching to single-seater racing in 1998. He finished fifth in the Formula Vauxhall Championship and fourth in the Formula Ford Winter Series […]

Motoring journalist Richard Meaden may be best known for his reviews and road tests of high-end sports cars in evo Magazine, of which is a contributing editor, but he has a long and varied racing CV as well. After completing his […]

Banging the drum for Team Toyota GB at the Britcar 24 Hours, Neil Primrose is an accomplished driver having raced in the historic Le Mans Classic and at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. He also runs a historic 1970s Lola T212 in endurance […]

Team profile – Team Toyota GB founded 1983     Team highlights   1983                                   Per Eklund claims Group A title, British Open Rally Championship driving a Toyota Corolla TE71 1984                                   Per Eklund claims Group A title, British Open Rally Championship […]

TEAM TOYOTA GB GT86   The GT86 has been built in the Buckingham workshops of GPRM, the race preparation outfit which developed the Toyota Avensis ‘Next Generation Touring Car’ BTCC concept. Powered by a 16-valve double overhead cam horizontally opposed […]

No motor-sporting debut is easy but this weekend’s first outing for the reformed Team Toyota GB and its all-new Toyota GT86 production racer will be one of the hardest – straight in at the deep end in the UK’s toughest race, the Britcar 24 Hours at Silverstone, which gets under way on Saturday afternoon.

Double British Touring Car Champion Chris Hodgetts is to return to competition and to Team Toyota GB next month when he teams up with his son, Stefan, to give the Toyota GT86 its British racing debut.

A four-man team of Toyota enthusiasts is planning to mount a giant-killing assault on the UK’s toughest race, the Britcar 24 Hours, using a supercharged Toyota MR2 Roadster. Not only are they hoping for top honours in their class, but also have their sights set on a top-20 overall finish in the 1/2 October Silverstone enduro.