Toyota announces SFormula and SuperGT race winner Ritomo Miyata (M_Ritmo) has been added to its WEC Challenge programme:
Miyata, a race winner in both SUPER GT and Super Formula, will accompany the Toyota World Endurance Championship squad for the remaining rounds of the season that don't clash with his existing commitments in Japan, starting with the Le Mans 24 Hours next month.
Toyota's statement revealed that Miyata already participated in a simulator session at TGR-E last year and"impressed the team with his driving performance, and set competitive lap times, to earn his selection as a WEC Challenge driver". Miyata, who has been vocal about wanting to race overseas in the future, currently represents leading Toyota squad TOM'S in both SUPER GT's top GT500 class and Super Formula.
The Toyota WEC Challenge programme has been dormant since Kenta Yamashita was chosen to race in the LMP2 class for High Class Racing during the 2019-20 season.That opened the door for Ryo Hirakawa to take his place on Toyota's roster of test drivers and eventually step up to replace the retiring Kazuki Nakajima as a race driver for the start of the 2022 WEC campaign.
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