Frank Wrathall and the Dynojet Racing team returned Toyota to the BTCC victory podium for the first time in nearly 20 years this afternoon at Brands Hatch, the independent Avensis driver claiming an emotional and popular maiden win in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship in the final race of the season.
Toyota’s trio of independent racers will bring their BTCC seasons to a close at Brands Hatch this weekend, each hopeful of ending the year on a high note.
True to the saying “there’s no place like home”, Toyota Racing secured its second victory of the season in the penultimate round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship at the Fuji circuit in Japan yesterday (14 October).
Toyota independent racers Adam Morgan, Frank Wrathall and Tony Hughes overcame a host of difficulties at Silverstone today to score more valuable Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship points, with series rookie Morgan shining at the wheel of his Speedworks Motorsport Avensis in the final race of the day to secure another personal best.
BTCC racer Frank Wrathall dropped in at the factory yesterday to meet the people who helped create his Toyota Avensis touring car, and to help celebrate 20 years of production at Toyota’s Burnaston facility.
TOYOTA Motorsport GmbH (TMG) continued its record-breaking success with the TMG EV P002 by setting a new electric record on the legendary 20.8km Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany. Using TMG’s motorsport-tuned electric powertrain, driver Jochen
Team Toyota GB is celebrating a remarkable UK racing 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
Toyota’s touring car independents scored well at Rockingham today despite difficult conditions and a variety of technical issues. The highlight for Dynojet Racing’s Frank Wrathall was a fifth-place finish, with Speedworks Motorsport Avensis driver Adam
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Toyota Racing led from start to finish to claim the team’s first victory in just its third race, the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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.
Fresh from success at Snetterton, where he claimed his best results of the BTCC season so far, Avensis racer Frank Wrathall leads Toyota’s independent drivers north of the border this weekend (25/26 August). Joining Dynojet Racing man Wrathall on the grid for the Knockhill rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship will be fan favourite Paul O’Neill and his Speedworks Motorsport team-mate Adam Morgan.
Toyota Racing’s TS030 HYBRID makes its UK racing debut in the WECSix Hours of Silverstone this weekend, ready to take Toyota hybrid power to the podium in the fourth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Toyota’s new GT86 sport coupe has claimed its first UK motorsport victory, winning the third round of the Toyota Sprint Series at Barkston Heath on Sunday 12 August. Driven and prepared by Adrian Smith of
Frank Wrathall raced his Dynojet Racing Toyota Avensis to a superb second place – equalling his best-ever BTCC result – at Snetterton this afternoon, the Lancashire man putting in a gutsy drive to chase multiple champion Jason Plato all the way to the chequered flag in the first race of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship’s Norfolk weekend.
Dynojet Racing Toyota Avensis driver Frank Wrathall is celebrating his first BTCC pole position after storming this afternoon’s Snetterton qualifying. Frank pipped multiple champion Jason Plato and his MG to top spot by just 0.015s
After a seven-week break from track action the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season resumes this weekend (11/12 Aug) at Snetterton in Norfolk, and Toyota’s BTCC independents and their Avensis touring cars are more than ready for the off.
