Challenge to the Nürburgring
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For Morizo, it all began with the NürburgringEver since he was young, Akio Toyoda loved driving and dreamed of being a racer. However, the environment he was surrounded by did not make that possible. His sole joy was quietly driving through the mountains.
Decades later, he met Naruse and heard those fateful words, “It’s annoying that someone at the top like you doesn’t know the basics of driving, but just gets into the car and comments on this and that!” With that, Naruse became his trainer. The two united with the same purpose, but they had no training curriculum.After roughly five years of this training, Naruse made a suggestion to Akio, “Why not compete in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring?”
The two decided to participate in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in 2007 together. Used ALTEZZA RS200s were fitted out as racecars and, through the extreme conditions of the race, the team took their first small step, learning about how to engage in dialog with their cars.-
Akio Toyoda (nicknamed “Morizo”)
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Nürburgring is located in Western Germany. Nordschleife (the north course), which is sometimes called the “old course,” is a massive circuit. While formally a circuit, its layout resembles typical regional European roads. One loop is roughly 20.8 km long, has a maximum elevation difference of 300 m, and features more than 170 corners of varying lengths. It is an extremely diverse course, with some sections requiring low speeds and others extremely high speeds. Furthermore, the surface of the course is almost entirely uneven, there is reduced traction due to dust, the course is narrow, and escape zones are rare. For these reasons, it is famed as one of the world’s hardest courses.
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