This is the Toyota GR LH2 Racing Concept, a liquid hydrogen (LH2) fuelled test car that Toyota Gazoo Racing has unveiled at Le Mans. It’s based on the GR010 Hybrid Hypercar that currently participates in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and is aimed at expanding hydrogen’s possibilities through motorsports.
The 5,100-mm long and 2,050-mm wide Toyota GR LH2 Racing Concept is 200 mm longer and 50 mm wider than the GR010 Hybrid Hypercar on which it’s based.
Toyota Gazoo Racing has not divulged output numbers, but the GR010 Hybrid Hypercar has a 680 PS 3.5 litre twin-turbo V6 and a 272 PS front-mounted electric motor.
This isn’t Toyota’s first hydrogen-powered vehicle in motorsports – in 2021, Rookie Racing entered the Japanese Super Taikyu series with the gaseous hydrogen-engined Corolla, switching to liquid hydrogen from 2023. Rallying, too – in 2022, the GR Yaris H2 completed demonstration runs on Ypres Rally, a round of the FIA World Rally Championship.
In 2023, the hydrogen-engined Corolla completed a demonstration lap of Circuit de la Sarthe, while a hydrogen-engined concept car, the GR H2 Racing Concept, was presented to preview a potential future hydrogen category at Le Mans.
As Toyota celebrates the 40th anniversary of its first Le Mans entry in 1985, it looks towards a carbon-neutral future, accelerating its efforts to “expand the production, transportation and use of hydrogen together with partners inside and outside the industry”.
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Needs to pit stop every couple of laps to refill liquified Hydrogen. Track car couldn’t fit standard size high compression tank right?