TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Announces 2020 Dakar Rally Team
2019年10月25日 - 11:38AM
JCN Newswire (英)
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing today announced an all-star line-up for the
Dakar Rally scheduled to take place for the first time in Saudi
Arabia in January 2020. The works team features four crews
consisting of Nasser Al-Attiyah and navigator Mathieu Baumel;
Giniel de Villiers and navigator Alex Haro; Bernhard Ten Brinke and
navigator Tom Colsoul; and Fernando Alonso and navigator Marc
Coma.
The team has been competing at the Dakar Rally since 2012 and, as
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing South Africa, achieved Toyota's first overall
victory earlier this year with Nasser and Mathieu. Since its first
Dakar Rally entry, the team recorded the best overall results of
3rd (2012), 2nd (2013), 4th (2014), 2nd (2015), 3rd (2016), 5th
(2017) and 2nd (2018).
For the upcoming edition of the legendary rally, TOYOTA GAZOO
Racing will field a mix of experienced rally-raid specialists,
together with relative newcomers to the discipline. Nasser and
Mathieu will be looking to defend their Dakar Rally title to add to
their impressive list of achievements, including multiple FIA World
Cups for Cross Country Rallies and Dakar Rally victories. Giniel is
another experienced campaigner with the 2009 Dakar Rally victory to
his name and four Rally of Morocco crowns, the latest coming
earlier this month with his new navigator Alex. Bernhard, also a
former winner in Morocco, is reunited with Tom, who hails from a
rally dynasty and has been competing across different rally
disciplines over the years with multiple successes in the truck
category.
Fernando, two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner, reigning FIA World
Endurance Championship titleholder with TOYOTA GAZOO Racing,
two-time Formula 1 World Champion, and winner of the 24 Hours of
Daytona, will drive TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's fourth entry in the 2020
Dakar Rally, part of his ambition to try different motorsport
disciplines and become an even more complete racing driver. Sitting
alongside him in the navigator seat is Marc, another Spanish
motorsport legend with six FIM Cross Country World Championships
and five Dakar Rally victories in the bike category under his belt.
The Spanish super-duo, both transitioning into different forms of
motorsport, has been hard at work since August, training in some of
the harshest conditions and terrains throughout Europe, Africa, and
the Middle East. So far, Fernando and Marc have more than doubled
their planned training mileage, an unmistakable signal of the duo's
determination to conquer one of motorsport's most rigorous
events.
All four crews will compete in the latest version of the rally
raid-proven Toyota Hilux, built and developed in South Africa. The
2018 Dakar Rally saw the introduction of an all-new Hilux which was
described by Glyn Hall, Team Principal, as a technological leap
forward and proved itself from the get-go with a second and third
place on its Dakar Rally debut before winning the event outright a
year later. Following TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's philosophy of "making
ever-better cars", the team has continued to refine the Hilux and
the latest iteration will spearhead the team's Dakar Rally
campaign. The Hilux features independent suspensions, a mid-mounted
engine, and an all-wheel drive, with the 5-liter naturally
aspirated V8 engine sitting just behind the front wheels.
The 2020 Dakar Rally will be contested solely in Saudi Arabia, with
the rally starting on January 5, 2020, in the western city of
Jeddah. The route will head north, before turning south-east to the
capital city of Riyadh where crews will enjoy the traditional event
rest day. The second half of the 2020 Dakar Rally traverses through
Rub' al Khali, also known as the "Empty Quarter", the world's
largest contiguous sand desert, before finishing in the city of
Al-Qiddiya on January 17.
About Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is the global mobility company that
introduced the Prius hybrid-electric car in 1997 and the first
mass-produced fuel cell sedan, Mirai, in 2014. Headquartered in
Toyota City, Japan, Toyota has been making cars since 1937. Today,
Toyota proudly employs 370,000 employees in communities around the
world. Together, they build around 10 million vehicles per year in
29 countries, from mainstream cars and premium vehicles to
mini-vehicles and commercial trucks, and sell them in more than 170
countries under the brands Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. For
more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com.
Source: Toyota Motor Corporation
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Toyota Motor Corporation
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