Toyota has announced an updated livery and name for its Hypercar challenger ahead of the 2026 FIA WEC season, as part of a larger overhaul of the Japanese marque’s European R&D division.
Previously known as Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH, the subsidiary company has been rebranded as Toyota Racing GmbH.
As such, the heavily-updated Hypercar previously known as the GR010-HYBRID, will compete as the ‘TR010 HYBRID’ in 2026 with its new aero package, whilst the team name reverts to the ‘Toyota Racing’ moniker it last used in 2015.
For the historians out there, this change neatly separates the first-generation GR010-Hybrid, from the significantly updated version set to debut in Qatar in March, and makes Toyota the first LMH/LMDh manufacturer to field cars under two different model names.
Toyota has also unveiled its 2026 livery, which sees the marque return to a primarily red colour scheme for the first time since 2017, following two years competing in all-black. The livery is similar, but not identical, to the one-off 1998 tribute run by the #7 GR010-Hybrid at last year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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