Toyota Motorsport GmbH
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| Founded | 1993 |
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| Base | Cologne, Germany |
| Team principal(s) | Yoshiaki Kinoshita (2010–present) |
| Current series | FIA World Endurance Championship |
| Former series | World Rally Championship |
| Current drivers |
 Kamui Kobayashi Kazuki Nakajima Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi Stéphane Sarrazin Mike Conway
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| Teams' Championships |
4 (1993 WRC, 1994 WRC, 1999 WRC, 2014 WEC) |
| Drivers' Championships |
5 (1990 WRC, 1992 WRC, 1993 WRC, 1994 WRC, 2014 WEC) |
| Website | https://www.toyota-motorsport.com |
Toyota Motorsport GmbH is a Toyota company based in Cologne, Germany. It employs around 200 people in a 30,000m2 factory and provides motorsport and automotive services to fellow Toyota companies and to outside clients.
TMG was responsible, under the name Toyota Team Europe (TTE), for Toyota's World Rally Championship cars starting from the 1970s right up to the 1990s. In addition, since 1994, TMG has developed a tuning business for road cars, offering complete vehicles or tuning and sports accessories. In 1999 the company stopped participating in rallying, in order to prepare for a switch to Formula One in 2002. From 2002 to 2009, TMG participated in Formula 1 under the team name Panasonic Toyota Racing, starting 139 Grands Prix. In that time, they finished on the podium 13 times, earned three pole positions and scored a total of 278.5 points. On November 4, 2009, Toyota announced their withdrawal from Formula 1.
In the meantime, it entered sports car racing and the 24 Hours of Le Mans: in 1998 and 1999, finishing 2nd in 1999 with their notably quick Toyota GT-One. TMG has moved back into sports car racing as an exclusive engine supplier from 2011 onwards to Lola Cars, powering Rebellion Racing. In 2012 TMG fully returned to sports car competition with the Toyota TS030 Hybrid.
TTE was started in London in 1972 when Toyota representatives and Ove Andersson, who won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1971, decided that he should drive a Toyota Celica in the RAC Rally in the autumn of that year. Andersson came ninth, beating other Japanese top teams who mostly worked with the Datsun 240Z.
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