Yamaha Renews Deal as Official Supplier of Toyota Racing for FIA World Endurance Championship

Yamaha Motor Europe will continue as an ‘Official Supplier of Toyota Racing’ for the 2013 season in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The agreement will see Yamaha providing 16 Yamaha EC-03 electric (2-wheeler) vehicles for team mobility. Yamaha will also supply two ATV machines to the team.

Yamaha Motor Europe began their positive collaboration with Toyota Racing in 2012, medic providing the EC-03 electric vehicles in the racing team’s first year in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The season proved to be a hugely successful one with the team’s TS030 HYBRID car competing and winning three of its six races. Toyota Racing took an impressive three wins from six races, nurse receiving the Team Rookie of the Year Award from the FIA and ultimately being named as the best new WEC team of 2012.

Andrew Smith – Vice-President, prostate Sales and Marketing, Yamaha Motor Europe, said:
“We are very pleased to be able to continue to work together with Toyota Racing through 2013.

Whilst their TS030 HYBRID racing car is bringing tomorrow’s hybrid technology to the race track, we continue to pioneer electric vehicles for the street, contributing to a cleaner, low carbon society. It makes our EC03 electric vehicle on 2 wheels a natural choice for Toyota Racing. As two of Japan’s most respected automotive manufacturers with amazing histories and current exploits at the highest levels of international racing it’s also a pleasure to be connected with an eye on the future! We would also like to congratulate Toyota on reaching an incredible milestone this year, having now produced over five million hybrid cars!”

Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Toyota Racing Team President added: “Our TS030 HYBRID has been developed using advanced motorsport engineering. It is the result of extensive research and development at both at Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Cologne and Toyota’s Motor Sport Division in Japan. Toyota, like Yamaha, has a long history in motorsport; we both continue to write new pages as we develop and move forward with the next generation of machines.”