Say Hello To The New Nascar-Spec Toyota Supra
We have a double dose of Supra news for your today: as well as announcing that the new ‘A90’ version of the sports car will be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Toyota has also revealed a racing version of the car.
Well, sort of. It’s for the Nascar Xfinity series - one step down from the main Nascar Cup Series - meaning it’s a silhouette racing car that’s been given a Supra-ish body. It replaces the Camry-like vehicle currently used by Toyota in Xfinity. Camry-inspired cars have been used by Toyota since 2007.
The Nascar Supra will be built on a steel space frame and powered by carburetted pushrod V8s, as per the current regulations. It’s built by Californian firm Calty Design Research and Toyota Racing Development, better known as TRD.
Want to see it driven in anger? The Supra in inverted commas will make its racing debut at Daytona International Speedway next February.
It won’t be the only racing car to carry the Supra name. In fact, we’ve already seen another Supra racing car: the Racing Concept revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Chief engineer Tetsuya Tada recently confirmed that the vehicle wasn’t just a show piece, as it had been designed to conform with LM GTE regulations. Yep, the Supra will be taking on Le Mans as well as Nascar. We’d expect an FIA GT3 version to follow too.
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Comments
Ok can we have car now
God it hideous, why would say hey ruin the Supras image like this?
to re-establish its image in racing of course
All these reanders but no actual car
Btw i am back ct
Hai
Good
That’s my car.
It looks like it’s trying really hard to look at something on it’s nose
Looks like a shark trying to chonp something in real life. Like it’s pushing forward the jaws and the nose is still sticking out a little.
Now bring us the actual supra xd
I cant.. its ugly.. Nascar true american cars.. then Toyota does this..
It just looks so… meek
It looks ugly
It’s driving in LaMans?! Why would you put this great, sobbing, horrendous, bucket of misery next to those gorgeous supercars?
Not this, the racing concept showed off earlier this year. This is a NASCAR, it doesn’t have the aero to race at LeMans