This year Toyota will again compete at Le Mans with a car that has been perfected. A celebration held at the Paul Richard circuit, France to welcome the birth of the 2013 Toyota TS030 Hybrid Prototype. This car will compete again with defending champion Audi R-18 e-tron Quattro and other competitors in the LMP1 class. In addition to prepared for Le Mans, as well as World Endurance Championship.
2013 World Endurance Championship lasted for 6 hours at Silverstone, England in mid-April, while the Le Mans race scheduled for June.
After promising results last year, the TS030 Hybrid experience improvements in many sectors. Toyota Engineers prepared race car to fulfill the regulations that will be implemented by 2014. They fine-tuned in the sector the engine and transmission, chassis and aerodynamics to improve power, efficiency, management and use of component durability.
Is a mainstay, Toyota Racing Hybrid, now equipped with super capacitors that can provide up to an additional 300hp to 530hp 3.4-liter V8 engine. The addition of power was accompanied by improvement of the aerodynamics to improve performance.
There are two units TS030 Hybrid prepared TMG (Toyota Motorsports GmbH) Germany's. The first car # 7, crew Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima. The second car hull number 8 with driver Anthony Davidson, Stéphane Sarrazin and Sébastien Buemi.
"The most obvious target is to fix small problems we encountered last season," said Toyota Racing technical director, Pascal Vasselon. "Last year the car's performance is satisfactory and we think there should be no change in the concept, simply perform the optimization only," he said.
Last year, six times the start, TS030 won three times.
