TOYOTA KICKS OFF MASSIVE YEAR IN AUSTRALIAN MOTORSPORT AS IT LINES UP ON THE SUPERCARS GRID FOR THE FIRST TIME

**Toyota’s 2026 Australian motorsport campaign to start tonight as five GR Supra Supercars race in the Dunlop Sydney 500 at Sydney Motorsport Park**
**2026 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Australia (TGRA) GR CUP season set to start with Race 1 on Saturday 21 February**
**TGRA Rally Team to campaign two GR Yaris Rally2 cars in Australian Rally Championship starting at Rally Queensland in Gympie on 17 April**

Toyota will tonight kick off its biggest ever year in Australian motorsport when five GR Supras line-up on the Supercars grid for the very first time for the Dunlop Sydney 500 season opener at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Walkinshaw TWG Racing will field two GR Supras with defending 2025 Supercars Championship winner Chaz Mostert and Ryan Wood behind the wheel, with a further three running under Brad Jones Racing driven by André Heimgartner, Cameron Hill and Macauley Jones.

Toyota Australia Vice President Sales, Marketing and Franchise Operations John Pappas said this was an historic moment for Toyota in Australian motorsport and one that had been more than 25 years in the making.

“This is a massive moment for us at Toyota and a clear demonstration of our commitment to supporting Australian motorsport at all levels,” Mr Pappas said.

“From our grassroots GR CUP through our long-standing Australian Rally Championship campaigns, and now into Supercars, participating in motorsport is key to the development of ever better cars and building the knowledge and experience of our people.

“Motorsport is the core DNA of our performance GR brand that we have built up over the past six years since we launched the GR Supra back in 2019, and what we learn on the track, directly feeds into cars like the GR86/86, GR Yaris and GR Corolla.

“In its first full year on sale, we sold 103 GR Supras and since adding more GR products, we have sold a total of 31,112 units to date across the four performance cars, clear evidence that our customers have enthusiastically embraced our GR brand.

“And there will be plenty more exciting things to come for GR.

“This will be our biggest year ever in Australian motorsport and with partners like Walkinshaw TWG Racing, Brad Jones Racing, and Neal Bates Motorsport, we have the strength of relationships, expertise and the racecars to make it a winning year and build communities of new fans of Toyota motorsport,” he said.

Alongside Toyota’s Supercars debut, this weekend also sees the 2026 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Australia (TGRA) GR CUP series enter its second decade with three races across the weekend as the premier grassroots support category for the Supercars Championship.

As a widely recognised career pathway for aspiring professional drivers, this weekend will have special significance for Cameron Hill as he gets back into a Toyota racecar after winning the very first Toyota 86 one-make race at Phillip Island in 2016.

This year, approximately 30 aspiring professional drivers will be aiming to follow in Hill’s footsteps as they race the GR86 racecar across five rounds on some of Australia’s iconic race circuits in Sydney, Townsville, Ipswich, Bathurst and Melbourne.

As part of what will be a massive year in support of Australian motorsport, Toyota is also looking forward to the start of the Australian Rally Championship at Rally Queensland in Gympie on 17 April as it defends its Manufacturers title campaigning two GR Yaris Rally2 cars for the 2026 season.

Following strong results in 2025 with Lewis Bates and co-driver Anthony McLoughlin finishing the season in second place and Harry Bates and Coral Taylor completing the podium in third, the TGRA Rally Team are aiming to finish 2026 back on the top spot.