GR010 - Hybrid
Hybrid · WEC 2021-2026
Also raced as GR010 HYBRID (2021-2023) and TR010 Hybrid (2026). Same factory programme.
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The Toyota GR010 - Hybrid raced 78 times in the World Endurance Championship between 2021-2026. For its full race history, browse the Toyota profile or any season's calendar.
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Questions about this car
Drivers · 4 min read
Who is Sebastien Buemi?
[Sebastien Buemi](/drivers/sebastien-buemi) is a Swiss endurance and Formula E racing driver, currently the all-time WEC overall race-wins leader with 27 victories. Buemi has driven for [Toyota Gazoo Racing](/teams/toyota-gazoo-racing) in the WEC since 2014, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (2018, 2019, 2020) in the LMP1-Hybrid era, the WEC Drivers' Championship in 2014 and 2018-2019, and the Formula E championship in 2015-2016. He remains on the WEC grid in 2026 with the No. 8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid.
Drivers · 4 min read
Who has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Hypercar era?
Five teams have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans since the Hypercar class arrived in 2021. Toyota Gazoo Racing took the first two runnings with the GR010 Hybrid. Ferrari has won every Le Mans since, taking three consecutive overall victories with the 499P from 2023 to 2025. Every winning crew so far has been all new to Le Mans victory at the time of the win.
Manufacturers · 4 min read
Which manufacturer has won the most Hypercar-era WEC races?
[Toyota](/manufacturers/toyota) has won the most Hypercar-era WEC races with 21 overall victories since the class debuted in 2021. [Ferrari](/manufacturers/ferrari) sits second with 7 wins, all in the 2023-2025 stretch. [Porsche](/manufacturers/porsche) has 4 wins, [Alpine](/manufacturers/alpine) has 3, with single victories for [Cadillac](/manufacturers/cadillac) and [BMW](/manufacturers/bmw). Six different manufacturers winning in five seasons is the deepest top-class spread the WEC has had since the championship started in 2012.
Drivers · 4 min read
Which driver has the most WEC pole positions?
[Kamui Kobayashi](/drivers/kamui-kobayashi) and [Mike Conway](/drivers/mike-conway) share the all-time WEC pole record with 17 overall poles each. Both drove the [No. 7 Toyota](/teams/toyota-gazoo-racing) through the LMP1-Hybrid and early Hypercar eras, and they accumulated the record together over six seasons in the same car. [Brendon Hartley](/drivers/brendon-hartley) and [Jose Maria Lopez](/drivers/jose-maria-lopez) sit tied for third on 14 each, and [Timo Bernhard](/drivers/timo-bernhard) and [Sebastien Buemi](/drivers/sebastien-buemi) are fifth-equal on 9.
Manufacturers · 5 min read
What was the Toyota TS050 Hybrid era like?
The [Toyota TS050 Hybrid](/cars/toyota-ts050-hybrid) era ran from 2016 to 2020 in the WEC's LMP1-Hybrid class. The car took 21 race wins across five WEC seasons, three consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans victories (2018, 2019, 2020), three Manufacturers' championships (2017, 2018-2019, 2019-2020) and three Drivers' championships. The TS050 is also the car associated with one of the most infamous late-race losses in Le Mans history, the 2016 power-system failure that handed [Porsche](/manufacturers/porsche) the win with three minutes to run.
Regulations · 4 min read
What replaced LMP1 in the WEC?
The Hypercar class replaced LMP1 as the WEC's top class for the 2021 season. The change ran in two stages: the LMP1-Hybrid era closed at the end of the 2019-2020 super-season, the 2020 Le Mans was the last LMP1 race of the WEC, and the Hypercar regulations went live at the start of the [2021 WEC season](/seasons/2021). Hypercar is a hybrid-mandatory class with two platform types under one performance window: LMH (manufacturer-built end to end) and LMDh (manufacturer engine and bodywork on a spec LMP2 chassis).