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Toyota Hybrid Le Mans Race Car Breaks Cover‎

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Toyota has let the first pictures of new LMP1 hybrid driver-which due to compete in this year's 24 hours of Le Mans, as already announced previously, and is clearly written in the sail LMP1 car is a Toyota, hybrid. It was developed by Toyota Motor sport GmbH, which is the same Division that runs the program was a Toyota.

This is the strategy of the diesel engine from Audi and Peugeot have recently implemented to perfection so that the top podium spot in Racing race.ORECA will run the operation endurance racing Toyota and provided they have reached the first finishers in every categories have never competed in the race for 35 years at Le Mans, the car must anticipate Japan season.

Japan car giant made the official announcement last October that she would compete at Le Mans and the new Endurance World Championship in LMP1 class in 2012, though with the help of Oreca France. However, until now, the only evidence of the progress of Toyota's new LMP1 driver teaser image hybrid prototype. But thanks to an employee of Toyota in the United Kingdom, PR we now have our first glimpse of actual racing cars.

Three Toyota team was scheduled to pilot the new hybrid drivers in this year's endurance classics include the 2009 24 hours of Le Mans winner Alex Wurz, 12 hours of Sebring winners in last year's Nicolas Lapierre and former F1 pilot Kazuki Nakajima.

When the GT-One-hits the tracks Le Mans this June, it will be the first time in about a decade that Toyota has been in prototype racing. We are confident that, with out of the game Peugeot, Toyota will have a better chance to give it a run for its money Audi.