Toyota has unveiled the second generation GR010 for the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship. The car has been sympathetically updated, bearing in mind cost constraints and homologation limits, which have prevented Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) from going to town on the updates. Nevertheless, the team says its 2023 package is lighter and more serviceable.
The car retains the GR010 name as the chassis and engine are the same, although the latter has been developed for weight saving purposes. The regulations state there can be no improvement in power as it is limited and monitored, with torque sensors fitted to the driveshafts, and there can be little performance gain from aerodynamics due to the cars fitting into a narrow window of the lift / drag graph.
That’s not to say that there cannot be development. Aerodynamics can be improved to widen the operating window of the car and make it behave itself better
