page_title: Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH
section_title: Toyota TS030 Hybrid
hierarchical_section_title: Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH / Sports car racing history / Toyota TS030 Hybrid
caption_attribution_description: English: FIA World Endurance Championship 2012 Rd.7 6 Hours of Fuji: #7 Toyota TS030 Hybrid (Toyota Racing)
context_page_description: Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH, formerly Andersson Motorsport GmbH and Toyota Motorsport GmbH, is a fully-owned and controlled entity of Toyota Motor Corporation, based in Cologne, Germany, which provides motorsport and automotive services to fellow Toyota companies and to outside clients, employing around 350 people in a 30,000 m² factory.
  As of the 2020 season, TGR-E currently operates Toyota's FIA World Endurance Championship factory team under the name Toyota Gazoo Racing, and develops and manufactures the engine for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT. TGR-E's WEC team is not to be confused with the Finland-based World Rally Championship team, which is not operated by TGR-E.
  Andersson Motorsport GmbH was responsible for Toyota's World Rally Championship cars starting from the 1970s until the 1990s. In addition, since 1994, TMG has developed a tuning business for Toyota road cars, offering complete vehicle service, tuning and sports accessories. However TMG is not to be confused with TRD in the USA.
context_section_description: In October 2011, Toyota announced its return to Le Mans in 2012, with a hybrid-powered Le Mans Prototype, sporting a petrol engine similar to that found in their customer P1 car. The car would be entered in the inaugural season of the FIA World Endurance Championship, though it would miss the first round of the series.
  Toyota suffered a severe setback with a crash in late April preventing the debut of the car at the 2012 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, but managed to get two TS030s ready by Le Mans. Unfortunately, neither car finished the race: the #8 car being driven by Anthony Davidson suffered a massive crash with a Ferrari 458 (which also fractured two of Davidson's vertebrae), while the No. 7 car hit the DeltaWing and later retired with an engine failure.
  Toyota continued to compete in the rest of the WEC season with a single car, collecting 3 wins including the 6 Hours of Fuji.
  At the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans Toyota achieved its fourth second-place finish at Le Mans with a revised Toyota TS030 driven by Stéphane Sarrazin, Anthony Davidson and Sébastien Buemi. The sister car finished in 4th several laps down.
  Toyota finished the WEC season in 2nd place again, taking two wins at rain-shortened Fuji and Shanghai.
caption: Toyota TS030 Hybrid LMP1
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