Toyota Australia commits to local one-make race series

Toyota Australia has confirmed its support for Australian grassroots motorsport by extending and increasing its Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 a single-make race series, ahead of the launch of the 2nd-generation Toyota GR86 sports activities motor vehicle.

Set up in 2016, the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 series – previously identified as the Toyota 86 Racing Sequence – is a one particular-make Australian racing championship comprised of ‘original’ 86 sports coupes.

Currently the TGRA 86 race sequence necessitates entrants to buy a new or used Toyota 86 highway auto, invest in the required ‘control’ race pieces in a package, then have the car assembled to meet up with the laws.

Speaking to media at a preview party for the forthcoming 2022 Toyota GR86 sports activities car, Toyota’s head of advertising and marketing Vin Niadoo confirmed that “we [Toyota] will support the category right until the end of 2026”.

“With an oversubscribed grid of 76 cars, and a new Toyota GR86 on the way, we’re also heading to lengthen the system to get far more folks out on track”.

From 2024, the second-era Toyota GR86 coupe will be able to be bought from Neal Bates Motorsport as a switch-essential race car or truck.

Now, privateers ought to acquire their have car, buy a entire pieces kit, then assemble the vehicle themselves or by way of a third bash. This new auto will kind a top-tier invite-only race series.

From 2023, the TGRA 86 race series will include a next, “scholarship” racing course, in which former-generation Toyota 86 race vehicles can however contend.

Just after a series of racing, the leading motorists of the scholarship collection will bear analysis in a 1-working day event to receive by themselves a location in the invite-only leading tier division.

Because its inception in 2017, the TGRA 86 race collection has successfully brewed local racing talent.

Sequence winner in 2016, Will Brown, has absent on to race in the Supercars Championship beneath Erebus Motorsport, and climbing star Cameron Hill has manufactured his way into Porsche Carrera Cup sporting activities vehicle racing as a final result of entering the TGRA 86 championship.