Toyota Outlines Motorsports Activities for 2006.Tokyo, Japan, Mar 3, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center ) announced today the outline of its motorsports activities for 2006, which positions FIA FIA feline infectious anemia. Formula One World Championship (F1), NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. , Super GT and Formula Nippon Formula Nippon is a type of formula racing and the top level of single-seater racing in Japan. Formula Nippon has a fairly long history, evolving from the Japanese Formula 2000 series begun in 1973 by way of the Japanese Formula 2 and Japanese Formula 3000 championships. 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 Engine displacement is defined as the total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle; it is normally stated in cubic centimetres, litres or cubic inches. . Continuing from last year, drivers Ralf Schumacher Ralf Schumacher (born June 30, 1975 in Hürth-Hermülheim near Cologne[1]) is a German Formula One racing driver for the Toyota team. He is the younger brother of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher and has won six F1 races during his career, which has spanned and Jarno Trulli Jarno Trulli (born 13 July, 1974) is an Italian Formula One auto racing driver currently in the employ of the Toyota team. Career Early days Trulli was born in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. 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 The Toyota Tundra is a full-size pickup truck sold by Toyota, replacing the Toyota T100. It is similar to the Toyota Sequoia, and Toyota Tacoma. The Tundra was nominated for the North American Truck of the Year award and was Motor Trend magazine's Truck of the year for the year 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 The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCAR's top racing series. It was formerly known as the Strictly Stock Series (1949), Grand National Series (1950-1971), and the Winston Cup Series (1972-2003). Series and Busch Series The NASCAR Busch Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR. It is NASCAR's "minor league" circuit (often compared to Triple-A baseball), and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organization's "big league" circuit, the Nextel Cup. in 2007 with the Toyota Camry The Toyota Camry is a mid-size sedan assembled by Toyota in Georgetown, Kentucky; Altona, Victoria, Guangzhou, China and the original factory in Toyota City, Japan. In some markets, the top range Camry models are seen as executive cars. . Along with continuing to support teams participating in Super GT, Toyota will The Toyota WiLL series consists of three individually-designed cars, based on the mechanicals of other Toyota models. The series was intended to appeal to markets that were not covered by Toyota's mainstream range, and to discover how commercially feasible such unusual designs were. begin supplying engines to Formula Nippon, a premier formula racing Formula racing is a term that refers to various forms of open wheeled single seater motorsport. Its origin lies in the nomenclature that was adopted by the FIA for all of its post-World War II single seater regulations, or formulae. series in Japan. To further support the foundations of motorsports, Toyota will continue to promote its Toyota Young Drivers Program (TDP TDP (thymidine diphosphate): see thymine. ), which cultivates young race drivers who hope to perform on the world stage by entering them in the GP2 series
The GP2 Series, GP2 for short, is a form of motor racing introduced in 2005 following the discontinuation of the long-term Formula One 'feeder' sport, Formula 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 ESSO Standard Oil ESSO Enterprise Single Sign-On ESSO Executive Support Staff Officer ESSO Eastern States Standard Oil (ExxonMobil) ESSO Every Saturday and Sunday Off (UK) ESSO Earth Science Support Office 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 Sports Division was one of the biggest sports retailers in the United Kingdom during the 1990s. In 1998 it was sold to its main competitor, JJB Sports for approximately £295 Million. It was set up by Sir Tom Hunter in 1984, to sell trainers, see article about him for more information. of the Higashifuji Technical Center is currently in charge of Toyota's overall motorsports activities, while Toyota Technocraft Co., Ltd./TRD in Japan, TRD TRD Trading TRD Toyota Racing Development TRD Transition Radiation Detector TRD Technische Regeln für Dampfkessel (German: Technical Regulations for Boilers) TRD Technical Requirements Document TRD Trust Deed , U.S.A. Inc. (TRD-USA) in the U.S. and Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG TMG - TransMoGrifier. An early language for writing recursive descent compilers. It was macroed from the IBM 1604 to the IBM 709 to the IBM 7094 to the GE-635, where it was used by McIlroy and Morris to write the EPL compiler for Multics. ) in Europe serve as local hubs for regional activities. 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 race·car n. Sports An automobile used for racing. , 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 aerodynamics, study of gases in motion. As the principal application of aerodynamics is the design of aircraft, air is the gas with which the science is most concerned. 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 Ricardo Luiz Zonta (born March 23, 1976 in Curitiba) is a Brazilian Formula One race car driver. Early career Born in Curitiba, Brazil, Zonta began karting in 1987, winning his first race shortly thereafter. (Brazil) as the third driver and Olivier Panis Olivier Panis, born in Oullins, Lyon, 2 September, 1966, is a retired French Formula One racing driver. Panis, like most drivers, raced karts early in his career. After graduating from karts, Olivier raced several years in a number of "junior" series before racing in French (France) as the test driver. - Toyota will also supply the new RVX-06 engine to Midland F1 (MF1) Racing. Toyota F1 Team Outline
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Team Panasonic Toyota Racing
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Drivers Ralf Schumacher, Car No. 7
Jarno Trulli, Car No. 8
Test drivers Ricardo Zonta (third driver)
Olivier Panis
Racecar TF106
Engine RVX-06
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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 TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (alternative medicine for depression) TMS Test Match Special (sports - cricket) TMS Texas Motor Speedway TMS Transportation Management System TMS Toyota Motor Sales ) 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
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Team Car No. Drivers
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Bill Davis Racing 5 Mike Skinner
22 Bill Lester
23 Johnny Benson
Darrell Waltrip Motorsports 17 David Reutimann
12 Joey Miller
Germain Racing 30 Todd Bodine
9 Ted Musgrave
Wyler Racing 60 Jack Sprague
Red Horse Racing 38 David Starr
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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 Bill Davis Racing is a NASCAR team that fields the #22 Caterpillar Toyota Camry for Dave Blaney, the #36 360 OTC Toyota Camry for Jeremy Mayfield in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, the #5 Toyota Tundra for Mike Skinner, the #22 Toyota for Ryan Mathews, and the #23 Toyota for Johnny , Michael Waltrip Racing Michael Waltrip Racing Holdings LLC, doing business as Michael Waltrip Racing, competes as a racing team in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and NASCAR Busch Series. The team was one of the first three to spearhead Toyota's entry into Nextel Cup and Busch Series competition 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 SC The Lexus SC series is a personal luxury coupé sold by Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota. The SC features a front engine, rear-wheel drive design and seating for up to four passengers. 430 and Toyota Supra
The Toyota Supra was a sports car/grand tourer produced by Toyota Motor Company from 1979 to 2002. , 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
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Class Team Vehicle Drivers Tires
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GT500 TOYOTA TEAM CERUMO Lexus SC430 Yuji Tachikawa Bridgestone
LEXUS (Japan)
Toranosuke Takagi
(Japan)
TOYOTA TEAM TOM'S Lexus SC430 Juichi Wakisaka Bridgestone
(Japan)
Andre Lotterer
(Germany)
Mobil 1 TOYOTA Lexus SC430 Tatsuya Kataoka Bridgestone
Team LeMans (Japan)
Akira Iida
(Japan)
TOYOTA TEAM KRAFT SC430 Naoki Hattori Dunlop
Lexus (Japan)
Peter Dumbreck
(Scotland)
TOYOTA TEAM TSUCHIYA Toyota Supra Manabu Orido Yokohama
(Japan)
Takeshi Tsuchiya
(Japan)
TOYOTA TEAM SARD Toyota Supra Andre Couto Bridgestone
(Portugal)
(To be announced)
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GT300 APR Toyota MR-S Morio Nitta Michelin
(Japan)
Shinichi Takagi
(Japan)
APR Toyota MR-S (To be announced) Michelin
RACING PROJECT BANDOH Toyota Celica (To be announced) (T.B.A.)
TOYOTA TEAM CERUMO Toyota Celica (To be announced) Kumho
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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)
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Team No. of cars Drivers
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mobilecast TEAM IMPUL 2 Benoit Treluyer (France)
Tsugio Matsuda (Japan)
arting RACING TEAM with IMPUL 2 Satoshi Motoyama (Japan)
Kazuki Hoshino (Japan)
KONDO RACING 2 Sakon Yamamoto (Japan)
Masataka Yanagida (Japan)
Team LeMans 2 Toranosuke Takagi (Japan)
Tatsuya Kataoka (Japan)
TEAM CERUMO 1 Yuji Tachikawa (Japan)
INGING MOTORSPORT 2 Ronnie Quintarelli (Italy)
(To be announced)
DHG TOM'S RACING 2 Andre Lotterer (Germany)
Takeshi Tsuchiya (Japan)
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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
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Team No. Of Cars Drivers (tentative)
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TOM'S 3 Hideto Yasuoka (Japan)
(TDP driver)
Kazuya Oshima (Japan)
(TDP driver)
Adrian Sutil (Germany)
INGING MOTORSPORT 2 Robert Streit (Brazil)
Naoki Yokomizo (Japan)
NOW MOTOR SPORTS 1 Tsubasa Abe (Japan)
(TDP driver)
Le Beausset 1 Kohki Saga (Japan)
ZAP SPEED 1 (To be announced)
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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 FCJ Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction FCJ Football Club Juventus FCJ Faithful Companion of Jesus, Sisters (religious order) FCJ Fine-needle-Catheter Jejunostomy ) This new, entry-class category starts this year. All of the cars are specially and independently designed FCJ vehicles (FC106). 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 TMSC Tape Mass Storage Control TMSC Total Motile Sperm Count TMSC Transportation Management Service Center (US DoD) TMSC The Marine Science Consortium TMSC Technical Management and Services Corporation TMSC TBM Multi-Source Correlator ). United States - Toyota will provide engines to the Midget Series of the United States Auto Club (USAC USAC Universal Service Administrative Company USAC United States Auto Club USAC Universidad de San Carlos (University of San Carlos, Guatemala) USAC US Airways Center (Phoenix, Arizona) ). - 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. 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
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Drivers Category Team (Ref.) 2005 category
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Europe
Franck Perera GP2 DAMS (France) F3 Euro series
(France)
Kamui Kobayashi F3 Euro series ASM Formula 3 Eurocup Form. Renault
(Japan) (France) Champ. Ital. Formula
Renault Series Champ.
Kohei Hirate Manor Motorsport F3 Euro series
(Japan) (United Kingdom)
Kazuki Nakajima All Japan F3
(Japan) Championship
Henkie Waldschmidt Eurocup Formula Prema Powerteam (Selected through
(Netherlands) Renault Series & (Italy) previous year's
audition)
Martin Plowman Italian Formula
(United Kingdom) Renault Series
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Japan
Hideto Yasuoka All Japan F3 TOM'S All Japan F3 Champ.
(Japan) Championship
Kazuya Oshima ESSO F. Toyota Champ.
(Japan)
Tsubasa Abe NOW MOTOR ESSO Formula Toyota
(Japan) SPORTS
Kyosuke Kunimoto Formula Toyota TOM'S SPIRIT (Graduate of 2004
(Japan) and FCJ Formula Toyota
Racing School)
Yoshifumi Kubota
(Japan)
Takuto Iguchi (Selected at 2005
(Japan) Formula Toyota
Racing School)
Sadaomi Masuda
(Japan)
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Formula Toyota Racing School (FTRS FTRS Full-Text Retrieval System (National Library of Medicine) FTRS Facility Training Records System ) This is a racing school held at Fuji Speedway employing "Formula Toyota" vehicles. Once again this year, two types of training programs will be held: one-day hands-on courses and three-day scholarship courses (dates to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. ). One-day course: This is held on a single day and intended for those who want to participate in the ESSO Formula Toyota Series, which mainly covers learning the fundamentals. Scholarship course: This two-night, three-day course covering everything from the basics to participation in non-sanctioned races. Auditions will be held for outstanding participants with future prospects, and the final drivers selected will be given a scholarship for the following year. About Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Motor Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 7203; NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TM) develops and manufactures vehicles, and is one of the largest car manufacturers in the world, offering a wide range of products from minivehicles to trucks. In addition to its core business, Toyota has a large business portfolio in financial services, including sales finance, vehicle insurance, and credit cards. It is also involved in telecommunications through a subsidiary that provides cellular services in Japan. Other diversified businesses include industrial equipment, prefabricated pre·fab·ri·cate tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and housing, and leisure boats. The company is headquartered in Aichi, Japan. Fot more information, please visit www.toyota.co.jp/en/index.html. Source: Toyota Motor Corporation Contact: Toyota Motor Corporation Public Relations Department http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/index_company.html Copyright [c] 2006 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network K.K. |
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