{"id":405597,"date":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405597\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"toyota-subaru-firm-up-n24-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405597\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota, Subaru Firm Up N24 Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota and Subaru will continue their efforts in the upcoming ADAC Ravenol 24H N\u00fcrburgring on 16\/17 May, entering cars competing for class honours beneath the SP9 (GT3) category.<\/p>\n<p>Last month as part of its 2026 motorsports activities announcement, Toyota Gazoo ROOKIE Racing (TG-RR) confirmed the return of its GR Yaris to the N\u00fcrburgring 24H. Toyota Motor Corporation Chairman Akio \u201cMorizo\u201d Toyoda will share driving duties with two-time Super Formula Champion Hiroaki Ishiura, 2019 SUPER GT GT500 Champion Kazuya Oshima, and Daisuke Toyoda, Akio\u2019s son and Senior Vice President of the Toyota Woven City project.<\/p>\n<p>This same quartet of drivers finished 52nd overall in last year\u2019s race, completing 113 laps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-494029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/109-Toyota-Gazoo-ROOKIE-Racing-GR-Yaris-2025-N24-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Morizo, Ishiura, Oshima, and the younger Toyoda will also drive the liquid hydrogen-fuelled GR Corolla H2 Concept in the upcoming Eneos Super Taikyu Series Empowered by Bridgestone, also entered by TG-RR.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota\u2019s S-Tai efforts also include the return of the mid-engined GR Yaris M Concept, run by GR Team ORC Field (Yasuhiro Ogura\/Masahiro Sasaki\/Takamitsu Matsui), and the GR Yaris DAT Racing Concept, run by GR Team SPIRIT (Shunsuke Kohno\/Kenta Yamashita\/Tokiya Suzuki).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-494030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/88-Subaru-WRX-STI-2025-N24-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Subaru announced its N24 programme today at the Tokyo Auto Salon, with an improved version of its WRX NBR Challenge car that finished 76th overall and completed 94 laps.<\/p>\n<p>Takuto Iguchi rejoins the Subaru N24 effort for 2026, lining up alongside the returning trio of Carlo Van Dam, Kota Sasaki, and Rintaro Kubo.<\/p>\n<p>Promising more horsepower, refined aerodynamics and an improved anti-lock braking system, Subaru says it not only intends to win the SP4T class, but also to challenge the top cars in the SP8T class, including homologated GT4 cars.<\/p>\n<p>Images \u00a9 Frozenspeed, Toyota, Subaru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toyota and Subaru will continue their efforts in the upcoming ADAC Ravenol 24H N\u00fcrburgring on 16\/17 May, entering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,65003,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-405597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-rj-oconnell","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}