The 2023 World Endurance Championship will get underway shortly with the 1000 Miles of Sebring scheduled for March 17 at Florida’s Sebring Worldwide Raceway.
This season the premier Hypercar class may have a number of new entries, together with LMH race automobiles from Ferrari and Vanwall, in addition to LMDh race automobiles from Cadillac and Porsche.
Incumbent groups Toyota, Peugeot, and Glickenhaus may also be current with their respective LMH race automobiles. Toyota was the dominant staff final season, with drivers Brendon Hartley, Ryō Hirakawa, and Sébastien Buemi taking house the Drivers’ title, and Toyota taking house the Producers’ title.
Regardless of the success, Toyota has revised its GR010 Hybrid LMH for the brand new season—a season during which Toyota will chase its sixth total victory on the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The automaker stated the main focus has been on optimizing the automotive’s reliability and effectivity.
2023 Toyota GR010 Hybrid LMH race automotive
On the surface, the 2023-spec automotive is differentiated from its predecessors through new dive planes on the entrance corners and smaller finish plates for the rear wing. There have additionally been some modifications to the bodywork to assist enhance brake cooling, together with new vents that may be modified throughout a race. The internals of the headlights have additionally been tweaked to enhance visibility at evening.
The GR010 Hybrid’s chassis has additionally undergone a weight-saving program to get total weight right down to the brand new minimal of 1,040 kilograms (roughly 2,293 kilos).
Toyota stated some changes have been additionally made to the powertrain to scale back weight and enhance reliability. The setup consists of a twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 powering the rear wheels and a single motor-generator powering the entrance pair. The V-6 delivers as much as 697 hp and the electrical motor as much as 268 hp, although according to the rules the 2 energy models can solely ship a most mixed output of 670 hp at any time.
Driving for Toyota this season shall be Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, and José María López within the quantity 7 automotive and Buemi, Hartley, and Hirakawa within the quantity 8 automotive.