Toyota GR010 Hybrid
The Toyota GR010 Hybrid is a sports prototype racing car developed by Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe for the 2021 Le Mans Hypercar rules in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The car is the successor of the Toyota TS050 Hybrid, which competed in the WEC from 2016 to 2020, achieving two double WEC world titles and three straight victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 2018 to 2020. The GR010 Hybrid was revealed online on 15 January 2021. A bodywork update saw the car renamed to Toyota TR010 Hybrid in 2026, in line with the team's rebrand to Toyota Racing.
As of 2025, the GR010 Hybrid remains as the most-successful Toyota-built sports prototype race car ever to date.
Development
GR010 Hybrid
The GR010's design is inspired by the Toyota GR Super Sport Concept presented at the 2018 Tokyo Auto Salon, considered to be the GR010's road version counterpart. Its engine is a 3.5 L twin-turbocharged petrol V6 with a hybrid system, which uses lithium-ion batteries.The car's first rollout took place at Paul Ricard in October 2020. A second test took place at Portimao in December 2020.
The road car programme developed in parallel with the racing programme was cancelled early in 2021.
Lexus considered plans to field a GR010 under the brand in the IMSA championship, but never materialized.
The GR010 Hybrid underwent an update in 2023 with a focus towards efficiency, reliability, and thermal cooling. The update also included slight aerodynamic changes, including new dive planes and smaller rear wing end plates. A new set of headlights were also installed to improve visibility at night.
TR010 Hybrid
Following the 2025 6 Hours of Fuji, Toyota confirmed plans to perform testing for an update to the GR010 Hybrid at Circuit Paul Ricard, releasing teaser images of the new car's design philosophy. The new car, wearing a camouflage livery, featured refinements to its aerodynamics, including a redesigned front end, new sidepods, and an updated rear wing. Originally set to be implemented during the 2025 season, Toyota opted to delay the updates for 2026. On 7 January 2026, Toyota formally unveiled the updated car under the name TR010 Hybrid, carrying a new naming convention, in line with the team's rebrand to Toyota Racing.Competition history
2021
For the GR010 Hybrid's debut season, Toyota maintained their driver lineup unchanged from the 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship, with Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and José María López in car #7 and Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima, and Brendon Hartley in car #8. Nyck de Vries remained as test driver, with Ryō Hirakawa joining him in development duties halfway through the year.The 2021 WEC season was a complete success for Toyota and the GR010 Hybrid, with the car winning all 6 races of its debut season, securing pole position and fastest lap at 5 of them and having both cars in the podium at every race except Monza, where the #8 car had reliability issues. With the win in the first leg of the Bahrain double-header finale Toyota secured the Hypercar World Endurance Championship. Furthermore, at the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans, Toyota would secure their fourth straight overall win in the event and the first for the #7 crew of Conway, Kobayashi and López, who would go on to repeat as World Endurance Drivers' Champions at the end of the year.
2022
After its inaugural season, Toyota would go on to repeat their success from 2021 in the 2022 WEC season with the GR010 Hybrid. They would maintain their lineup of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and José María López in their #7 car while for the #8 car they would bring in Ryō Hirakawa to join Sébastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley.Despite a crash in the 1000 Miles of Sebring and a retirement during the 6 Hours of Spa, both Toyota cars would podium in every race including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 6 Hours of Fuji, and 8 Hours of Bahrain all of which they finished both first and second. This led to them winning the 2022 Hypercar World Endurance Constructors Championship. In the driver's championship, the crew of the #8 car would become the 2022 Hypercar World Endurance Drivers Champions and the #7 car would place third in the standings.
2023
Having won the last two Hypercar World Endurance Championships, the GR010 Hybrid would go on to once again carry Toyota to even more success. Toyota kept the same drivers from the year prior with Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway, and José María López in the #7 car and Ryō Hirakawa, Sébastien Buemi, and Brendon Hartley in the #8 car.Toyota started the season by finishing the 1000 Miles of Sebring in first and second place and they would continue this success throughout the season with only 3 finishes outside the top two. One of these finishes occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans when the #7 Toyota was hit by another car while slowing down for a collision which forced the Toyota to retire due to the damage, leaving the #8 car to finish third. Nevertheless, the team convincingly won the 2023 Hypercar World Endurance Constructors Championship with 217 points. The crew of the #8 car would once again win the Hypercar World Endurance Driver Championship, with the crew of the #7 car taking second place.
2024
The GR010 returned to defend both titles in 2024. The lineup for #8 car remains the same as it was in 2023, while Nyck de Vries joining the #7 lineup replacing López who departed the team to join ASP in the LMGT3 class. The car sported a new matte black livery to represent Toyota's efforts in producing ever-better motorsports-bred cars and continuing their evolution.At the season-opening Qatar 1812 km, Toyota missed out on the podium for the first time since the 2018 6 Hours of Silverstone with the #7 finishing sixth, while the #8 finished ninth, with the drivers attributing it with the lack of pace. The team only took three wins that year, namely in Imola, São Paulo, and the title-deciding finale in Bahrain where they pipped Porsche by six points to take the Manufacturers' Championship despite both cars losing out to the #6 Porsche in the Drivers' Championship.