Hyundai Motor and Toyota Motor Company Drive Motorsport Tradition at ‘Hyundai N x TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Pageant’ By Investing.com

• Hyundai Motor Firm (OTC:) and Toyota Motor (NYSE:) Company host inaugural ‘Hyundai N x TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Pageant’, bolstering motorsport tradition in South Korea
• Hyundai Motor (OTC:) Group Govt Chair Euisun Chung and Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda actively take part in dynamic car present runs
• The pageant options quite a lot of high-performance automobiles from each corporations, together with Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 N Drift Spec and Toyota’s GR YARIS Rally 1 HYBRID
• Hyundai Motor continues to develop South Korean motorsport tradition with newest occasion, constructing on previous initiatives spanning greater than 20 years

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ —  Hyundai Motor Firm and Toyota Motor Company have efficiently teamed as much as host the first-ever ‘Hyundai N x TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Pageant’ at Yongin Speedway in Korea.

Hyundai N and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing, each opponents within the World Rally Championship (WRC), teamed up for the occasion to showcase Hyundai and Toyota’s high-performance manufacturing and racing automobiles. The sold-out occasion highlighted their shared dedication to boosting South Korea’s motorsport tradition and enhancing buyer engagement.

Hyundai Motor Group Govt Chair Euisun Chung and Toyota Motor Company Chairman Akio Toyoda actively participated within the occasion. Chung joined Toyoda piloting a Yaris WRC performing Morizo’s signature intense efficiency driving together with donuts within the midst of roaring applause of spectators. After the efficiency run, the 2 males walked up on stage collectively thanking close by followers, shook fingers and shared their ideas.

“With our high-performance N brand, we’re committed to delivering excitement and satisfying all car enthusiasts. We’ll continue to push forward in motorsport alongside Toyota so that more people can enjoy the thrill of driving,” stated Euisun Chung, Govt Chair of Hyundai Motor Group. “When I met with Chairman Akio Toyoda earlier this year, we discovered our mutual passion for racing, and I was delighted that we could hold this event. Chairman Toyoda is someone in the automotive industry that I respect deeply, and it’s an honor to be here with him today,” he added.

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda started with a heat “Saranghaeyo!” (which means “I love you” in Korean) and continued, “Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of meeting with Executive Chair Chung in Japan, where this wonderful idea took shape. And here we are, just 10 months later, making this incredible event a reality! I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who helped bring this event to life. Together, Toyota and Hyundai are joining hands to create a better society and shape the future of mobility.”

Following the 2 executives’ present runs, the Hyundai N model handled followers to dynamic present runs that includes its i20 N Rally 1 Hybrid, two i20 N Rally 2 competitors automobiles for buyer motorsport, the mass-produced high-performance N lineup “ together with IONIQ 5 N and Elantra N “ and the IONIQ 5 N Drift Spec.

Hyundai N’s present run drivers included Thierry Neuville, who’s presently main the 2024 WRC drivers’ championship, Dani Sordo, Andreas Mikkelsen, and Mikel Azcona, the 2022 World Touring Automotive Cup champion.

Toyota demonstrated its high-performance lineup with dynamic present runs that featured the model’s GR YARIS Rally 1 HYBRID, GR Yaris Rally 2, GR Supra and GR86.

The drivers included present Toyota WRC driver Takamoto Katsuta, TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally staff principal Jari-Matti Latvala, and Norihiko Katsuta, a nine-time Japanese Rally champion and the daddy of Takamoto Katsuta.

The pageant included quite a lot of participatory applications to offer prospects firsthand expertise, together with a observe day occasion that noticed 30 Hyundai N-model house owners and 30 house owners of TOYOTA GR automobiles drive their very own high-performance automobiles on the Yongin Speedway circuit. This allowed them to immediately expertise the efficiency of their automobiles on a professional-level circuit.

Different immersive applications included the ‘WRC Taxi’, the place prospects received the chance to experience in a full WRC racing automotive to witness spectacular rally-style maneuvers, and the ‘WRC Circuit Taxi’, the place drivers from each corporations “ together with grasp driver ‘Morizo’ himself “ took passengers on a high-speed tour of the observe, showcasing the total capabilities of every model’s WRC automobiles.

The occasion additionally featured a ‘Gymkhana Competitors’, the place skilled drivers from Hyundai N and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing teamed up with prospects to race in Hyundai’s Avante N and Toyota’s GR86. Moreover, the ‘Present & Shine’ nook of the occasion showcased individuals’ custom-made automobiles, celebrating the tuning tradition surrounding each manufacturers.

The occasion culminated in a ‘Parade Lap’ that includes 66 Hyundai N and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing automobiles pushed by prospects. Govt Chair Chung and Chairman Toyoda led the best way. Hyundai Motor and Toyota Motor Company additionally showcased their respective next-generation high-performance automobiles at their respective model cubicles through the occasion.

On the Hyundai N sales space, the corporate displayed two ‘Rolling Labs’: the RN24, a brand new check car that embodies Hyundai N’s new imaginative and prescient of excessive efficiency, and the N Imaginative and prescient 74, a hydrogen gasoline cell hybrid that underscores Hyundai Motor’s dedication to hydrogen innovation. The IONIQ 5 N TA Spec that conquered Pikes Peak and fan favourite the Elantra N had been additionally exhibited.

On the Toyota sales space, a number of progressive fashions had been showcased. These included the ORC ROOKIE GR Corolla H2 Idea, the AE86 H2 idea “ a hydrogen inside combustion engine powered car primarily based on the Toyota Sprinter Trueno. Alongside these, idea automobiles from the high-performance lineup, together with the GR Supra and the GR86, had been additionally on show.

Different sights included the ‘WRC Recreation Zone’, the place attendees may just about drive Hyundai N and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing automobiles by means of the racing simulator. This was joined by the ‘Racing Automotive Service Park’ the place pageant goers may watch the competitors race automotive being serviced in ready for occasions precisely as they’d in WRC stage.

On the occasion, Hyundai Motor and Toyota Motor Company introduced that they may donate all proceeds from ticket gross sales to the Korea Vehicle Racing Affiliation (KARA) to contribute to the event of home automotive tradition and the enlargement of motorsport.

Hyundai Motor reinforces dedication to driving motorsport tradition

The ‘Hyundai N x TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Pageant’ is the newest effort in an extended line of initiatives by Hyundai Motor to develop motorsport tradition in South Korea. Over the previous 20-plus years, Hyundai has held the ‘Hyundai Click on Pace Pageant’ (2003-2010), the ‘Korea Pace Pageant’ (2011-2018), and the ‘Hyundai N Pageant’ (2019-current).

As well as, since asserting its return to competitors within the WRC in 2012, Hyundai Motor has participated in quite a few motorsport occasions, gaining expertise and growing progressive applied sciences, equivalent to high-performance car suspension and braking methods.

In 2015, the corporate launched its high-performance model, Hyundai N, and launched high-performance automobiles outfitted with motorsport-based applied sciences. Hyundai’s N fashions proceed to ship the enjoyment of driving to prospects, enhancing the general technological competitiveness of Hyundai automobiles by increasing the appliance of high-performance car applied sciences to basic automobiles.

Hyundai Motor is pioneering a brand new space of high-performance eco-friendly automobiles by making use of this strategy to technological innovation to automobiles such because the IONIQ 5 N, offering driving enjoyable within the period of electrification.

Wanting forward, Hyundai World Rally Staff and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Staff will showcase dynamic performances of each squads after they compete within the FORUM8 Rally Japan, the ultimate spherical of the FIA World Rally Championship 2024 sequence, from Thursday, November 21 to Sunday, November 24 in Aichi and Gifu prefectures, Japan.

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