Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe
Motorsport and automotive research and development facility owned by Toyota / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Formerly | Andersson Motorsport GmbH Toyota Motorsport GmbH |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Automotive |
Founder | Ove Andersson |
Headquarters | WEC Cologne, Germany Susono, Japan WRC Jyväskylä, Finland |
Owner | Toyota Motor Corporation |
Parent | Toyota Motor Europe |
Subsidiaries | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT Oy |
Website | www |
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Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH (TGR-E) is an automotive engineering and motorsport services facility based in Cologne, Germany. It is fully-owned and controlled by Toyota Motor Corporation.[2][3][4]
TGR-E's principal operation is technical development of motorsport vehicles and their competitive entries on behalf of Toyota's Gazoo Racing brand in the FIA's World Endurance Championship (WEC) and World Rally Championship (WRC). The latter is run from a satellite facility in Jyväskylä, Finland, known as Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT.[3][5]
TGR-E was also previously known as Andersson Motorsport and Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG), both of which ran Toyota Team Europe (TTE) entries in the WRC.