The Toyota racing would be revealing the details of their participation in FIA 2014, World endurance championship. It will be pushing limits of their Hybrid power-strain technologies in motor-sport. Toyota has entered 2 cars in this season of WEC. These are LE Mans twenty four hours and Automobile club de l’quest. This is the 3^rd year in a row, when Alex, Nicholas, Kazuki, Anthony, Sebastien and Stephanie will be driving for Toyota racing. They have been joined by the test and the reserve driver would be Mike.

Toyota’s TS040 Hybrid Prototype will be designed as per the latest rules and regulations. The intentions are for keeping WEC as well as Le Mans on the fore-front of the road related technological development. The official Test session of WEC will be witnessing the first ever public-appearance of the car on 28^th and 29^th march. It will be taking the track along with prototypes such as Porsche and Audi.

After the establishment of Hybrid TS030, Toyota racing has been considered as the pioneer in the domain of Hybrid power-trains for the motorsports. TS030 Hybrid is being waited for taking the technological advancement to the following level. This addition of the Aisin AW Motor generator on front Axle combined with DEBSO units at rear will prove that TOYOTA Hybrid system racing will now offer powered solutions to the 4 wheels also.

Under the declaration the moot generator applies braking forces. These are combined with the traditional mechanized brakes for the generation of energy. This energy is then transferred through DENSO inverters to NISSHINBO super capacitor. While the acceleration is in force, the motor reverses its functioning. This helps the motor in delivering optimum power enhancement.

This 4 wheel drive Hybrid has been allied to petrol powered engine of V8. It has been developed by Motor Sports Unit development division at Higashifuji technological centre. At this centre the generation next Toyota road cars technology is being developed. This kind of a link, between the motor-sport technology and the upcoming road car is known to TOYOTA racing. The TS040 just like its ancestors, act as a real life testing bench for Toyota’s new hybrid ideas. Toyota has made sales of more than 6 million already.

TS040 Hybrid Chassis has been designed, manufactured, developed, operated and built by Toyota motorsport GmbH in Cologne. It is a representative of a major- evolution on TS030 Hybrid all thanks to the advanced Aerodynamic as well as the light-weight designs.
The intensive simulation as well as the calculation-work at the TMG has filtered TS040 Hybrid. It utilizes the hardware in loop techniques for testing the individual-components on the basis of the real tracker data as well as the strong calculation of the computers for optimizing the designs.

These kinds of cutting edge technologies are increasingly becoming more and more capable. This car has completed a successful roll out at the Paul Ricard. More specifications regarding TS040 Hybrid comprising the technological components might be released before the official testing of WEC. The president of the team Yoshiaki told that they are looking forward for the latest season where their new car will be launched.

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