A patent seemingly related to the Toyota GR Super Sport suggests the road-going race car will lack traditional doors and instead use a one-piece canopy that lifts open.
Patent sketches depict a mid-engined Toyota model with a canopy that swings open and up, allowing the driver and passenger to get in and out. While the rough design of the vehicle depicted is slightly different to the GR Super Sport, it has the same overall shape. Having such a roof design would certainly differentiate it from all other high-performance vehicles currently on sale.
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It was back in June 2019 that Toyota confirmed it would compete in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship with a vehicle based around the GR Super Sport Concept from a couple of years ago. In order to compete in the championship, Toyota will have to build 20 examples for the street within two years and it will look pretty wild, as these patents from GR86 show.
It remains unclear what kind of powertrain the road-going and race-only variants of the GR Super Sport will use. When presented as a concept, the car featured components from the TS050 Hybrid LMP1 prototype and included a 2.4-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine paired with a Toyota Hybrid System to produce a combined 986 hp.
In May, technical boss of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe operation, Pascal Vasselon, told Motorsport.com that because the WEC has been delayed until March 2021, the Japanese manufacturer is targeting an October track debut for the hypercar.