Toyota Gazoo Racing‘s World Rally-Raid Championship programme might be among the many staff’s numerous divisions attending the Goodwood Pageant of Velocity in July, bringing with them the Toyota GR DKR Hilux EVO T1U.
Drivers Lucas Moraes and Seth Quintero, together with their navigators Armand Monleón and Dennis Zenz, will pilot the Hilux in any respect three of the competition’s areas—the Hillclimb, Forest Rally Stage, and Off-Street Area.
TGR’s Hiluxes have appeared at Goodwood yearly since 2022, every time doing triple obligation. Nasser Al-Attiyah drove the Hilux on the two earlier editions throughout his W2RC and Dakar Rally-winning campaigns. For the 2023 festival, the Off-Street Area added a big ramp nicknamed “Nasser’s Ramp” that was designed by Al-Attiyah and his former co-driver Mathieu Baumel.
Finally yr’s occasion, Al-Attiyah set the thirty-third quickest Hillclimb time amongst those that ran on Sunday.
The Hilux EVO T1U is an upgraded mannequin from what Al-Attiyah raced, wider and heavier to adjust to T1+ rules. It presently leads the W2RC producer’s standings after 4 of 5 rounds, whereas Moraes sits third within the driver’s championship and Quintero eighth; the duo every have a finest race end of third (Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge for Quintero, BP Ultimate Rally-Raid for Moraes) and a mixed 5 stage wins. Overdrive Racing additionally has their very own Hilux mannequin that received the latest spherical, the Desafío Ruta 40 in early June.
Toyota can even carry their World Rally Championship-contending GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid and Rally2 automobiles and a Corolla hybrid from the British Touring Automobile Championship. Every automobile is meant to suit the 2024 competition’s theme of hybrid and various gasoline energy; the Hilux makes use of a Repsol biofuel with seventy % renewable materials. WRC drivers Sébastien Ogier, Kalle Rovanperä, and Elfyn Evans can even be in attendance.
The 2024 Goodwood Pageant of Velocity is scheduled for 11–14 July.
