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Toyota Motorsport GmbH is a Toyota division based in Köln, Germany. It was renamed from Toyota Team Europe to Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) in 1993. It currently employs around 200 people in a 30,000m2 factory and provides motorsport and automotive services both to fellow Toyota companies and outside clients.
TMG was responsible for Toyota's World Rally Championship cars starting from the 1970s right up to the 1990s. In addition, since 1994, TMG has developed a tuning business for road cars, offering complete vehicles or tuning and sports accessories.
In 1999 the company stopped participating in rallying, in order to prepare for a switch to Formula One in 2002.
In the meantime, they entered sports car racing and the 24 Hours of Le Mans: the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Toyota GT-One were very fast, but not lucky, starting on pole position but finishing 2nd in 1999.
In 1997, it became the first motorsports business in the world to be ISO 9001 certified.
From 2002 to 2009, TMG participated in Formula 1 under the team name Panasonic Toyota Racing, starting 139 Grands Prix. In that time, they finished on the podium 13 times, earned three pole positions and scored a total of 278.5 points. On November 4 2009, Toyota announced their withdrawal from Formula 1.
TMG continues with a new business model, offering high-performance development, testing and production facilities for clients in the motorsport and automotive sectors.
TTE was started in London in 1972 when Toyota representatives and Ove Andersson, who won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1971, decided that he should drive a Toyota Celica in the RAC Rally in the autumn of that year. Andersson came 9th, beating other Japanese top teams who mostly worked with the Dat
240Z.
The Toyota Celica had to travel from Japan to the European events all the time, which was not good for the car, so Andersson set up a workshop of his own, Andersson Motorsport, which became Toyota's first European team. It was founded in 1973 with its workshop in Uppsala, Sweden. Shortly thereafter it moved to Brussels, Belgium. It ran Corollas and Celicas from this location, with some help from Japan for major events.
After the Yom Kippur War, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and the Toyota importers of Germany, Great Britain, Finland, Belgium and Portugal started what became the actual Toyota Team Europe in February 1975. In August of that year, Hannu Mikkola won TTE's first rally, the 1000 Lakes Rally in a Corolla 1600, where the competition used 2.0 L engines.
In 1979 TTE moved 11 of the 20 employees from Brussels to Cologne, where the Toyota Allee was created. This was also the first time it used a Celica Turbo, and TTE won the next two Safaris.
In September 1987, TTE moved to a larger premises, in which they still reside. It was also the time they revealed their first four wheel drive car, the Toyota Celica GT-Four, driven by Juha Kankkunen and Kenneth Eriksson. Carlos Sainz won the 1990 FIA World Rally Championship Title for Drivers with ST165. The newer GT-Four, ST185, made its debut at the 1992 Rallye Monte Carlo, culminating in Sainz again winning the title in this year. The ST185 also won the WRC Driver's and Manufacturer's Titles in 1993 with Juha Kankkunen, and in 1994 with Didier Auriol.
In 1993 Toyota Motor Corporation bought TTE which then renamed Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG). At this time, as a fully-owned part of Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motorsport were employing 300 staff from 17 nations.
In 1995 TTE was famously banned for 12 months from the WRC for cheating by designing a illegal air restrictor on the ST205 that included both a bypass mechanism and spring loaded devices to conceal it from scrutineers.[1] In the 1996 and 1997, despite lack of works team appearance in 1996 due to the ban, TTE supported the Celica ST205 rallied by Italian HF Grifone Team, Toyota Team Sweden, Marlboro Toyota Team Belgium, and Tein Sport in the selected WRC events, before introduced the Corolla WRC in the 1997 Rally of Finland. When they returned to the WRC for 1998, they did so with a Corolla driven by the crews of Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya and Didier Auriol/Denis Giraudet. They finished the season in second overall in both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships.
In 1999, however, the manufacturers championship was taken, the third in TTE's existence.
List of rally wins
Year Event Driver/Navigator Car Result
1973 Press-on-Regardless W. Boyce / D. Woods Corolla (TE20) 1st
1975 1000 Lakes Rally H. Mikkola / A. Aho Corolla Levin (TE27) 1st
1979 National Gravel French Rally Championship J.-L. Therier / M. Vial Celica (RA20) 1st
1980 German Rally Championship A. Warmbold / W. Inhester Celica (RA40) 1st
National Gravel French Rally Championship J.-L. Therier / M. Vial Celica (RA40) 1st
1982 Motogard Rally B. Waldegard / H. Thorzelius Celica (RA63) 1st
1983 Ivory Coast Rally B. Waldegard / H. Thorzelius Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
1984 Safari Rally B. Waldegard / H. Thorzelius Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
1985 Safari Rally J. Kankkunen / F. Gallagher Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
Ivory Coast Rally J. Kankkunen / F. Gallagher Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
1986 Safari Rally B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
Ivory Coast Rally B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
Middle East Rally Championship M. Bin Sulayem / R. Morgan Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
1987 Rally Hong Kong - Beijing B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Supra 3.0i (MA70) 1st
Middle East Rally Championship M. Bin Sulayem / R. Morgan Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
1988 Safari Rally K. Eriksson / P. Diekmann
J. Kankkunen / J. Piironen
B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Celica Supra Turbo (MA70) Team Prize
Cyprus Rally B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Middle East Rally Championship M. Bin Sulayem Celica Twincam Turbo (TA64) 1st
1989 Rally Australia J. Kankkunen / J. Piironen Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
1990 Safari Rally B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Acropolis Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Rally New Zealand C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
1000 Lakes Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
RAC Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Middle East Rally Championship (Drivers) M. Bin Sulayem / R. Morgan Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Asian-Pacific Rally Championship (Drivers) C. Sainz / L. Moya 1st
World Championship of Drivers C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
World Championship of Manufacturers 2nd
1991 Monte Carlo Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Portugal Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Corsica Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Rally New Zealand C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Rally Argentina C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
Rally Catalunya A. Schwarz / A. Hertz Celica GT-Four (ST165) 1st
World Championship of Drivers C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST165) 2nd
World Championship of Manufacturers 2nd
1992 Safari Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Rally New Zealand C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Rally Catalunya C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
RAC Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
World Championship of Drivers C. Sainz / L. Moya Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
World Championship of Manufacturers 2nd
1993 Monte Carlo Rally D. Auriol / B. Occelli Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Swedish Rally M. Jonsson / L. Backman Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Safari Rally J. Kankkunen / J. Piironen Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Rally Argentina J. Kankkunen / N. Grist Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
1000 Lakes Rally J. Kankkunen / D. Giraudet Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Rally Australia J. Kankkunen / N. Grist Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
RAC Rally J. Kankkunen / N. Grist Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
World Championship of Drivers J. Kankkunen / N. Grist Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
World Championship of Manufacturers 1st
1994 Portugal Rally J. Kankkunen / N. Grist Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Safari Rally Ian Duncan / David Williamson Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Corsica Rally D. Auriol / B. Occelli Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Rally Argentina D. Auriol / B. Occelli Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Rallye Sanremo D. Auriol / B. Occelli Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
World Championship of Drivers D. Auriol / B. Occelli Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
World Championship of Manufacturers 1st
1995 Safari Rally Y. Fujimoto / A. Hertz Celica GT-Four (ST185) 1st
Tour de Corse D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Celica GT-Four (ST205) 1st
1996 European Rally Championship A. Schwarz / D. Giraudet Celica GT-Four (ST205) 1st
RAC Rally A. Schwarz / D. Giraudet Celica GT-Four (ST205) 1st
1998 Monte Carlo Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 1st
Rallye Catalunya D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Corolla WRC 1st
Rally New Zealand C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 1st
World Championship of Drivers C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 2nd
World Championship of Manufacturers 2nd
1999 Rallye Monte Carlo D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Corolla WRC 3rd
Swedish Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 2nd
Safari Rally Kenya D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Corolla WRC 2nd
Rallye de Portugal C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 2nd
Rallye Catalunya D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Corolla WRC 2nd
Tour de Corse C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 3rd
Rally Argentina D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Corolla WRC 3rd
Acropolis Rally C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 2nd
Rally Finland C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 3rd
China Rally D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Corolla WRC 1st
Rallye Sanremo D. Auriol / D. Giraudet Corolla WRC 3rd
Rally Australia C. Sainz / L. Moya Corolla WRC 2nd
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