8 novembre 2011
Nicolas Lapierre joins TMG and its Le Mans project!
Team ORECA-Matmut driver for the past four seasons, Nicolas Lapierre will be one of the Toyota Motorsport GmbH drivers in 2012. As a 12 Hours of Sebring winner and 2nd place finisher at Petit Le Mans in 2011, the French driver will join the Le Mans project next season and will pilot an LMP1 powered by hybrid-petrol technology. Alongside him will be Austrian driver Alexander Wurz and Japanese driver Kazuki Nakajima.