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Toyota Outlines Motorsports Activities for 2006 . For immediate release March 3, 2006 Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Outlines Motorsports Activities for 2006 Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced today the outline of its motorsports activities for 2006, which positions FIA Formula One World Championship (F1), NASCAR, Super GT and Formula Nippon as the main pillars of its motorsports competition, while including measures to further support the foundations of motorsports. As detailed in the outline (available in full below), for its fifth year of F1 competition, Toyota rolls out the TF106 race car, developed in response to changes in vehicle regulations, such as those concerning engine displacement. Continuing from last year, drivers Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli are aiming for Toyota’s first F1 victory. In NASCAR, Toyota is continuing its support for the teams driving its U.S.-market Toyota Tundra pickup truck, which debuted in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2004 and garnered nine victories in 2005. Toyota has also decided to begin competing in the Nextel Cup Series and Busch Series in 2007 with the Toyota Camry. Along with continuing to support teams participating in Super GT, Toyota will begin supplying engines to Formula Nippon, a premier formula racing series in Japan. To further support the foundations of motorsports, Toyota will continue to promote its Toyota Young Drivers Program (TDP), which cultivates young race drivers who hope to perform on the world stage by entering them in the GP2 series and F3 Euro series, which are geared as stepping-stones to F1. Toyota will also continue sponsoring one-make races in Japan, including the ESSO Formula Toyota Series, which is an entry-level formula category, and the Netz Cup races (Vitz Street-legal Series and Altezza Series). The Motor Sports Division of the Higashifuji Technical Center is currently in charge of Toyota’s overall motorsports activities, while Toyota Technocraft Co., Ltd./TRD in Japan, TRD, U.S.A. Inc. (TRD-USA) in the U.S. and Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) in Europe serve as local hubs for regional activities. Cont’d Outline of Toyota’s 2006 Motorsports Activities 1. FIA Formula One World Championship (F1) • The Panasonic Toyota Racing team, competing in 2006 for its fifth consecutive year as a full-constructor team, is aiming to capture its first victory and to continue winning points. • The team will compete using a new racecar, the TF106, which is equipped with a newly developed RVX-06 2.4-liter V8 engine to comply with this year’s engine regulation changes. It also features an updated chassis and suspension that have been developed to accommodate the new engine and a switch to Bridgestone tires. Improved aerodynamics are also incorporated. • The drivers will remain the same as last year, with Ralf Schumacher (Germany) and Jarno Trulli (Italy) behind the wheel, and with Ricardo Zonta (Brazil) as the third driver and Olivier Panis (France) as the test driver. • Toyota will also supply the new RVX-06 engine to Midland F1 (MF1) Racing. Toyota F1 Team Outline Team Panasonic Toyota Racing Ralf Schumacher, Car No. 7 Drivers Jarno Trulli, Car No. 8 Ricardo Zonta (third driver) Test drivers Olivier Panis Racecar TF106 Engine RVX-06 2.1 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Toyota will support teams taking part in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series through Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) and TRD-USA. Participating vehicles will be units of the U.S.-market Toyota Tundra pickup truck fitted with specially developed 5.8-liter V8 engines. Supported Teams Team Car No. Drivers 5 Mike Skinner Bill Davis Racing 22 Bill Lester 23 Johnny Benson 17 David Reutimann Darrell Waltrip Motorsports 12 Joey Miller 30 Todd Bodine Germain Racing 9 Ted Musgrave Wyler Racing 60 Jack Sprague Red Horse Racing 38 David Starr Cont’d 2.2 NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch series—the Pinnacle of NASCAR • The NASCAR Camry is currently being developed to participate in 2007 in NASCAR’s Nextel Cup and Busch series. • The teams scheduled to compete in the Nextel Cup Series are Bill Davis Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing Inc. and Team Red Bull. 3. Super GT • As a premier racing series, Toyota will continue to support teams taking part through Toyota Technocraft Co., Ltd. (TRD). • Scheduled to participate are the GT500-class Lexus SC430 and Toyota Supra, powered by 4.5-liter V8 (3UZ-FE) engines, the GT300-class Toyota Celica and Toyota MR-S, powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine (3S-GTE) and a 3.5-liter V6 (2GR) engine, respectively. Supported Teams Class Team Vehicle Drivers Tires TOYOTA TEAM CERUMO Yuji Tachikawa (Japan) Lexus SC430 Bridgestone LEXUS Toranosuke Takagi (Japan) Juichi Wakisaka (Japan) TOYOTA TEAM TOM’S Lexus SC430 Bridgestone Andre Lotterer (Germany) Mobil 1 Tatsuya Kataoka (Japan) Lexus SC430 Bridgestone GT500 TOYOTA Team LeMans Akira Iida (Japan) Naoki Hattori (Japan) TOYOTA TEAM KRAFT Lexus SC430 Dunlop Peter Dumbreck (Scotland) TOYOTA TEAM Manabu Orido (Japan) Toyota Supra Yokohama TSUCHIYA Takeshi Tsuchiya (Japan) Andre Couto (Portugal) TOYOTA TEAM SARD Toyota Supra Bridgestone (To be announced) Morio Nitta (Japan) APR Toyota MR-S Michelin Shinichi Takagi (Japan) APR Toyota MR-S (To be announced) Michelin GT300 RACING PROJECT (To be Toyota Celica (To be announced) BANDOH announced) TOYOTA TEAM CERUMO Toyota Celica (To be announced) Kumho Cont’d 4. Japanese Championship Formula Nippon This is the top category of formula car races in Japan. Starting this year, 3-liter V8 engines (Toyota RV8-J) will be provided to seven teams (13 vehicles). Supported Teams (Engine Support) Team No. of cars Drivers Benoit Treluyer (France) mobilecast TEAM IMPUL 2 Tsugio Matsuda (Japan) Satoshi Motoyama (Japan) arting RACING TEAM with IMPUL 2 Kazuki Hoshino (Japan) Sakon Yamamoto (Japan) KONDO RACING 2 Masataka Yanagida (Japan) Toranosuke Takagi (Japan) Team LeMans 2 Tatsuya Kataoka (Japan) TEAM CERUMO 1 Yuji Tachikawa (Japan) Ronnie Quintarelli (Italy) INGING MOTORSPORT 2 (To be announced) Andre Lotterer (Germany) DHG TOM’S RACING 2 Takeshi Tsuchiya (Japan) Other Support Activities All-Japan F3 Championship Series Formula Three is the first step toward F1. Toyota will provide 2-liter 3S-GE engines to five teams. Supported Teams Team No. Of Cars Drivers (tentative) Remarks Hideto Yasuoka (Japan) TDP driver TOM’S 3 Kazuya Oshima (Japan) TDP driver Adrian Sutil (Germany) Robert Streit (Brazil) INGING MOTORSPORT 2 Naoki Yokomizo (Japan) NOW MOTOR SPORTS 1 Tsubasa Abe (Japan) TDP driver Le Beausset 1 Kohki Saga (Japan) ZAP SPEED 1 (To be announced) ESSO Formula Toyota Series These entry-level formula car races have garnered a reputation as a category that fosters young drivers. All cars in the one-make races are FT30 type vehicles with 1.6-liter (4A-GE) engines. Formula Challenge Japan (FCJ) This new, entry-class category starts this year. All of the cars are specially and independently designed FCJ vehicles (FC106). Cont’d Netz Cup Vitz Street-legal Series and Altezza Series This series started in 2000 as “participatory” races. So far, approximately 7,200 people have competed. Vitz Street-legal Series This series features street-legal racecars, with new-model Vitz racecars replacing the first-generation Vitz racecars used up to last year. Starting this year, new models will replace previous vehicles. The car used is the specially designed Toyota Vitz RS TRD Racing, which is based on the Vitz RS 1.5-liter with manual transmission. The series consists of twenty-seven races held in five regions in Japan (Tohoku, Kanto, Central Japan, Kansai and Western Japan) with regional series winners competing in the championship race in the autumn. Altezza Series This series will end this year with the end of sales of the base vehicle and will comprise of seven races, covering major circuits across Japan. Additional Support Activities Japan • Support will go to teams participating in a variety of activities including the All-Japan Rally Championship and All-Japan Dirt Trial Championship. • The Vitz one-make rally TRD Vitz Challenge (with a total of six races) will be held making it possible for even beginners with a B-class license to compete. • Support will go to the Toyota Motor Sports Club (TMSC). United States • Toyota will provide engines to the Midget Series of the United States Auto Club (USAC). • Toyota will continue to provide 4.3-liter V8 (3UZ-FE) engines to Grand American Road Racing teams—in January 2006, the engines won first and second place in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Europe • Support will go to Team Land Cruiser TOYOTA AUTO BODY participating in the Dakar Rally. • Team Land Cruiser TOYOTA AUTO BODY won the top two spots in the “unmodified production class” of the Dakar 2006 rally held in January, for its second consecutive first-place finish in this race. Cont’d Toyota Young Drivers Program (TDP) Basic Concept This program is aimed at cultivating drivers who hope to compete in top racing categories, both in Japan and the rest of the world. It is dedicated to identifying new talent and allows each participant to improve in line with his or her own abilities. The program is being offered in Europe and Japan as listed below. List of Trainee TDP Drivers for 2006 Drivers Category Team (Reference) 2005 category Franck Perera (France) GP2 DAMS (France) F3 Euro series Kamui Kobayashi (Japan) F3 Euro series ASM Formula 3 Eurocup Formula Renault (France) Series Champion Italian Formula Renault Series Champion Kohei Hirate (Japan) Manor Motorsport F3 Euro series Europe Europe Kazuki Nakajima (Japan) (United Kingdom) All Japan F3 Championship Henkie
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