Toyota Gazoo Unveils 2024 Motorsport Team Setups in Japan

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) announced its 2024 motorsport team setups in Japan at the CITY CIRCUIT TOKYO BAY facility in Tokyo on December 12. "Morizo" (Chairman Akio Toyoda), Tomoya Takahashi, President of GAZOO Racing Company, and the drivers leading the TGR activities in Japan joined the attendees. A live broadcast featured updates on new challenges for the 2024 season and TGR's racing team setup, in addition to the history of TGR and the significance of its motorsport engagements.

Major Results for the 2023 Race Season

SUPER GT	GT500 Class Team champion TGR TEAM au TOM'S Drivers' champions Sho Tsuboi / Ritomo Miyata (TGR TEAM au TOM'S)
Japanese Super Formula Championship	Drivers' champion Ritomo Miyata (VANTELIN TEAM TOM'S)
Japanese Rally Championship	JN1 Class Ranked 2nd Norihiko Katsuta / Yusuke Kimura (GR YARIS JP4-RALLY2)

SUPER GT

GT500 Class

TGR will participate with the GR Supra GT500 again in 2024.
We will support six teams (six vehicles) through TOYOTA CUSTOMIZING & DEVELOPMENT Co., Ltd. (TCD).
Nirei Fukuzumi and Toshiki Oyu will join the TGR driver line-up in 2024.

Team	Vehicle	No.	Driver	Tires
TGR TEAM ENEOS ROOKIE	ENEOS X PRIME GR Supra	14	Kazuya Oshima (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM ENEOS ROOKIE	ENEOS X PRIME GR Supra	14	Nirei Fukuzumi (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM WedsSport BANDOH	WedsSport ADVAN GR Supra	19	Yuji Kunimoto (Japan)	YH
TGR TEAM WedsSport BANDOH	WedsSport ADVAN GR Supra	19	Sena Sakaguchi (Japan)	YH
TGR TEAM au TOM'S	au TOM'S GR Supra	36	Sho Tsuboi (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM au TOM'S	au TOM'S GR Supra	36	Kenta Yamashita (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM Deloitte TOM'S	Deloitte TOM'S GR Supra	37	Ukyo Sasahara (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM Deloitte TOM'S	Deloitte TOM'S GR Supra	37	Giuliano Alesi (France)	BS
TGR TEAM KeePer CERUMO	KeePer CERUMO GR Supra	38	Hiroaki Ishiura (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM KeePer CERUMO	KeePer CERUMO GR Supra	38	Toshiki Oyu (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM SARD	DENSO KOBELCO SARD GR Supra	39	Yuhi Sekiguchi (Japan)	BS
TGR TEAM SARD	DENSO KOBELCO SARD GR Supra	39	Yuichi Nakayama (Japan)	BS

Tires = BSBridgestone YHYokohama

GT300 Class

The team set-up for the GT300 class will be announced at a later date.

Japanese Super Formula Championship

TRD (Toyota Racing Development) will supply 11 vehicles from six teams with two-liter in-line four-cylinder direct injection gasoline turbo engines (TRD 01F).
All vehicles will be equipped with tires produced by Yokohama.
Théo Pourchaire, who was recent crowned 2023 FIA Formula 2 champion, Nirei Fukuzumi and Toshiki Oyu will join TGR driver line-up in 2024.

Team	No.	Driver
KONDO RACING	3	Kenta Yamashita (Japan)
KONDO RACING	4	Kazuto Kotaka (Japan)
Kids com Team KCMG	7	Kamui Kobayashi (Japan)
Kids com Team KCMG	8	Nirei Fukuzumi (Japan)
docomo business ROOKIE	14	Kazuya Oshima (Japan)
ITOCHU ENEX TEAM IMPUL	19	Théo Pourchaire (France)
ITOCHU ENEX TEAM IMPUL	20	Yuji Kunimoto (Japan)
VANTELIN TEAM TOM'S	36	Sho Tsuboi (Japan)
VANTELIN TEAM TOM'S	37	Ukyo Sasahara (Japan)
VERTEX PARTNERS CERUMO・INGING	38	Sena Sakaguchi (Japan)
VERTEX PARTNERS CERUMO・INGING	39	Toshiki Oyu (Japan)

Japanese Rally Championship

We will hone human resources, with Toyota Motor Corporation employees participating as the team principal, engineers, and mechanics, whilst continuing to make ever-better motorsports-bred cars and engaging in activities to broaden the base of rally fans.
Following on from 2023, Tomoyuki Shinkai and Yuichi Ando will again compete in the GR YARIS GR4 DAT Rally, which is equipped with a next-generation sports automatic transmission (DAT) that is currently under development, to hone the cars and their major components in the JN1 class, the top category of the Japanese Rally Championship.

Team name	TOYOTA GAZOO Racing
Vehicle / class	GR YARIS GR4 DAT Rally / JN1 class
Main specifications	Engine	1.6-liter in-line three-cylinder intercooler turbo
Main specifications	Drive system	"GR-FOUR" sport 4WD system
Driver / Co-driver	Tomoyuki Shinkai / Yuichi Ando

Super Taikyu series / Nürburgring

We will participate in endurance races in Japan and abroad with the purpose of making ever-better motorsports-bred cars and developing human resources through motorsport.
In the Super Taikyu series, in addition to the above, we will continue to take up the challenge of expanding new options to achieve carbon neutrality with "purposeful passion and action".
At the Nürburgring, we will challenge our car and team by making spot entries in the NLS series and preparing for our entry in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring race from 2025 onwards.

Professional driver line-up	Guliano Alesi (France)
	Hiroaki Ishiura (Japan)
	Kazuya Oshima (Japan)
	Tatsuya Kataoka (Japan)
	Naoya Gamo (Japan)
	Shunsuke Kohno (Japan)
	Masahiro Sasaki (Japan)
	Sho Tsuboi (Japan)
	Takamitsu Matsui (Japan)
	Kenta Yamashita (Japan)

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