Toyota Gazoo Racing will remain unchanged for the 2025 edition of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The multiple champions are still among the very best, which they proved with a victory on the season finale in Bahrain, one and a half weeks ago, where they ended up claiming the Constructors Championship.
Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway, and Nyck de Vries took the victory at the Imola circuit earlier this year, and were part of the fight for the Drivers Championship all the way until the finale, where they retired with technical issues, just shy of the 6-hour mark. The three drivers will continue in car #7. Conway missed out on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, due to a bike crash just a few days before the race week, and was replaced by Jose-Maria Lopez.
Car #8 had Sebastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley as the three drivers during 2024, and took the win in the season finale, and it was the reason why the Japanese brand could bring another prize back to the trophy cabinet, in a season that internally is seen as a bad one, with just two wins.
Buemi has been a part of the team since 2012, when they entered the FIA WEC. The Swiss driver hasn’t done all the races in the series, since Toyota only ran selected rounds in the first season.
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Toyota has had several junior drivers over the years. De Vries is the most recent one to be promoted, after being a junior driver for several years. He was promoted into a full-season driver for 2024, after the Dutchman returned from Formula 1. Ryo Hirakawa was in the programme too, and he was promoted for the 2022 season, after Kazuki Nakajima retired.
Ritomo Miyata is currently part of the junior programme, plus he was a part of the COOL Racing outfit in the European Le Mans Series. Miyata did have a second programme in the FIA Formula 2, and there is no mention of the Japanese driver in the press release today. So we don’t know where he will show up in 2025.
The FIA WEC 2025 starts on 28 February in Qatar.
