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TS010 (1993)
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TS010 (1993)

TS010 1993 Le Mans-spec (chassis #007-#009) · 1993–1993RWD

With both the World Sportscar Championship and the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship cancelled for 1993, the TS010 had nowhere left to race except the 24 Hours of Le Mans, for which Toyota built three fresh chassis (#007, #008, #009). Despite the pace of the RV10 V10, the car again fell short of victory: future Formula One driver Eddie Irvine, Masanori Sekiya and Toshio Suzuki brought their TS010 home 4th overall behind a trio of Peugeot 905s, with a second car 8th and the third retiring. It was the TS010's final campaign before Toyota's Group C program ended.

592 hpPower
346 km/hTop Speed
1993-1993Year
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Specifications

Powertrain
Engineering details
EngineToyota RV10, naturally aspirated 3.5 L (3496 cc) V10, DOHC 5 valves per cylinder, mid-mounted
Displacement3.5 L
Cylinders10
FuelPetrol
Transmission6-speed Manual
DrivetrainRWD
Performance
Numbers that matter
Power592 hp
Top speed346 km/h
Weight750 kg

STORY

Toyota built the TS010 for the 3.5-litre naturally aspirated Group C formula that the World Sportscar Championship imposed for 1992, a rule that shut the turbocharged cars out of the class. Tony Southgate drew the carbon-fibre monocoque around the RV10, a 3.5-litre 72-degree V10 with five valves per cylinder and roughly 700 bhp in sprint tune. Toyota Team TOM'S ran it first on 27 October 1991 in the 430 km of Autopolis, the championship's closing round, where Geoff Lees and Andy Wallace finished sixth. Lees and Hitoshi Ogawa won the 1992 opener at Monza, and at Le Mans that June the number 33 car of Masanori Sekiya, Pierre-Henri Raphanel and Kenny Acheson came second, six laps behind the winning Peugeot 905. Eddie Irvine, Sekiya and Toshio Suzuki took fourth at Le Mans in 1993, and the programme ended when the class was dropped.

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