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The 2024 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship was the second season of the Formula Regional Oceania Championship, and the nineteenth running of the premier open-wheel motorsport category formerly known as the Toyota Racing Series, held in New Zealand. It was held over five consecutive weekends in January and February 2024.
The 2025 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship was the third season of the Formula Regional Oceania Championship, and the twentieth running of the premier open-wheel motorsport category formerly known as the Toyota Racing Series It was held in New Zealand over five consecutive weekends in January and February 2025.
Laurens Vanthoor topped the sheets with a lap time of 1 minute, 30.561 seconds in his No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche, 0.010 seconds quicker than second-placed Ryō Hirakawa in the No. 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota. Antonio Fuoco rounded out the top three in the No. 50 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari, 0.543 seconds behind Vanthoor. [5]
The provisional calendar was announced on 1 August 2024. [1] All weekends except the ones at Autopolis and Sportsland Sugo will be double-headers, making this the longest calendar in Super Formula history. The series originally planned its first race outside Japan since 2004 with a round held at Inje Speedium. [12]
In 2017, the Toyota Gazoo Racing Factory, which had been developing motorsport vehicles, was reorganized and the "Gazoo Racing Company" was established. [12] As an in-house company, it strengthened its independence and contributed to Toyota's car making by feeding back the knowledge gained in the race to road cars, and the direction to secure ...
The Toyota Racing Series ran a Tatuus FT-50 chassis with modified versions of 1.8L Toyota four cylinder 2ZZ-GE production engines which can produce 200bhp, a six speed Sadev sequential transmission with limited slip differential with a carbon fibre body and a Carbon monocoque chassis built by Tatuus in Italy to full FIA F3 specification. [4]
On 9 June 2023, during the 2023 Le Mans weekend, the calendar for the 2024 season was announced. It contains eight races, including two completely new races and two returning races. The 1000 Miles of Sebring, 6 Hours of Portimão, and 6 Hours of Monza races will not return in 2024, with Monza not being held due to the track being redeveloped. [5]
Currently, Toyota participates in the Toyota Racing Series, Super Formula, Formula Three, Formula Drift, NHRA, USAC, Super GT, NASCAR, the WRC and the WEC. Since 2015, all of Toyota's motorsport activities are handled by Toyota Gazoo Racing. Toyota also has a technical alliance with Haas F1 Team and plans to enter the Supercars Championship in ...