Toyota Gazoo Racing crowned World Champions in three categories 

• Toyota Gazoo Racing’s successful 2024 season concludes with three manufacturer’s titles 

• World Championship trophies presented at the FIA awards ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda 

• Sustainable technologies central to Toyota Gazoo Racing’s motorsport challenge 

Toyota Gazoo Racing concluded a competition season characterised by technical prowess, team spirit and high drama when they collected three World Championship trophies at the Federation International de l’Automobile (FIA) 2024 prize-giving. 

The awards presentation, which took place in Kigali, Rwanda, on Friday (13 December), officially crowned the year’s champions in a range of motorsports series, with Toyota Gazoo Racing collecting the manufacturers’ honours in all three of the championships it contested: the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and FIA World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC). 

The top three in each drivers’ and co-drivers’ World Championship were also honoured. This saw presentations to Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin for second place in the WRC drivers’ and co-drivers’ standings; Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries for third place in the WEC drivers’ championship; and Lucas Moraes and Armand Monleon for third in the W2RC drivers’ and co-drivers’ points races. 

Toyota Gazoo Racing’s motorsport endeavours underline their commitment to making ever-better cars and pioneering renewable technologies through competition. Reflecting Toyota’s multi-path approach towards carbon neutrality, which offers customers a variety of affordable and practical options to accelerate the pace of CO₂ reduction, success in the WRC and WEC was achieved with hybrid power and 100 per cent sustainable biofuel. Its W2RC title was powered by a new fuel blend from partner Repsol which contains 70 per cent renewable components. 

A thrilling season of WRC action tested man and machine on some of the toughest roads in the world. The competition was only decided on the final stage of the last event, Rally Japan. Toyota Gazoo Racing secured their fourth consecutive manufacturers’ title – the eighth for Toyota in WRC – after the GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid won eight of the season’s 13 rallies. 

In the WEC, the battle for manufacturers’ honours also went down to the wire. Toyota Gazoo Racing won their sixth consecutive manufacturers’ crown – and seventh in total – thanks to the GR010 Hybrid’s three wins from eight endurance races, as well as second place in the Le Mans 24 Hours. 

Completing a hat-trick of FIA manufacturers’ trophies in 2024, the Toyota Gazoo Racing team in the W2RC maintained their 100 per cent record since the introduction of the series in 2022 by winning the manufacturers’ title for the third time, with the GR DKR Hilux Evo. 

The new season will open with the Dakar Rally, the first event in the 2025 W2RC. Taking place in Saudi Arabia, the gruelling 15-day event will get under way on 3 January with six Toyota Gazoo Racing cars in action. 

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