Toyota has released the first teaser video of the GR Super Sport hypercar undergoing testing.

It shares its hybrid powertrain with the TS050 LMP1 race car that just won Le Mans.

Toyota also announced that it will be entering the GR Super Sport in the 2020–2021 WEC season under the new "hypercar" rule set.

Early last year, Toyota unveiled the GR Super Sport concept, a wild hypercar inspired by the Le Mans–winning TS050 LMP1 prototype. Then, one year and one day ago, Toyota announced that it will be putting the car into production, saying that it was part of Toyota's plan to "develop sports cars from active race cars." Now, we're getting our first look at the production GR Super Sport in action, as Toyota has released a video showing the hypercar undergoing testing.

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In the video, a camouflaged GR Super Sport is shown driving around Fuji Speedway in Japan. There's not a ton of actual on-track footage, and there's music playing during the whole video so we can't hear the car, but we can see that it sticks extremely closely to the concept in design. The only major differences that we can see are the addition of honeycomb-shaped LED headlights, a modified rear diffuser design, different front air intakes, and a lack of holes on the inside of the front fenders.

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The video (below) also gives us our first look at the interior of the GR Super Sport. It comes as no surprise that it basically looks like a race car. It has a digital speedometer, a very simple steering wheel, and a small dashboard pod that houses another screen and a bunch of controls. At the top of that pod is another screen that shows the view from behind the car; it will have a camera in place of a rearview mirror. The rest of the interior is completely stripped out and covered in carbon fiber. We can't see the seats, but you can expect them to be some intense racing buckets.

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Toyota hasn't given any new info about the car's powertrain or other mechanicals, but the company had already released some details when the concept was first released. Its twin-turbo 2.4-liter V-6 and hybrid system are taken directly from the TS050, and Toyota said the concept made a total of 986 horsepower, matching the race car's output; we don't expect that to change in the transition to production. Toyota hasn't said what gearbox the production car will use, but the race car uses a six-speed sequential manual transmission (or a seven-speed when racing at Le Mans).

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To go along with the roadgoing car, Toyota's Gazoo Racing team—the source of the GR in the hypercar's name—has also announced that it will be entering the GR Super Sport in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)'s 2020–2021 season, which will be adding a new "hypercar" class. The GR Super Sport will be going up against the Aston Martin Valkyrie, the only other car to have also confirmed entry into next year's new class—at least as of right now. The season won't start until a year from September, with Le Mans as the finishing race of the season in June 2021, so there is still time for other companies to jump in the mix.

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We still don't know a lot about the GR Super Sport and its new racing counterpart, but Toyota says both cars are being designed and developed alongside each other and that the race car will begin track testing next year. The company also says the name of the race car will be announced close to the start of the next season, while more details of the road car will be released "in due course." If we were to be speculative, and we like to be, we'd wager that full details of the production GR Super Sport will be revealed at the 2019 Tokyo auto show in October.

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