Toyota Supra in motorsport

It was mainly built on a custom chassis with a carbon fiber body, the Mk III version housed a de-stroked 2.89-liter twin-turbo 7M-GTE, good for 600 kW (800 bhp) at over 9000 rpm, giving a best quarter mile time of 8.09 seconds.

[2][3][11] In 2003, the Supra was to compete in the NHRA Sport Compact Series, but the car became ineligible when the category it was to enter in, Pro V8, was axed at the beginning of the year, therefore it was permitted to perform demonstration runs throughout the season, where at a round at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, the Supra took the car's record time of 6.893 ET at 310.81 km/h (193.13 mph), eclipsing its best in Japan of 7.277 posted at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway.

[8] In 2002, in the NHRA's street tire class, the unibodied Titan Motorsport Supra of Mark Mazurowski broke the all-season dominance of Ari Yallon's Rotary Performance RX-7 to take the title and became the fastest uni-body Supra in the world, with a time of 9.42 second and 253.57 km/h (157.56 mph) at Maple Grove Raceway, Pennsylvania, despite a quicker time at Houston Raceway Park of 9.002 at 258.14 km/h (160.40 mph) which was unofficial.

[citation needed] In the United Kingdom, Steve Whittaker used a 671 kW (900 bhp) Mk III built around a pro-style chassis to achieve a best of 8.207 at 273.41 km/h (169.89 mph).

[citation needed] At TX2K10 (a national racing event that takes place annually in Texas), Boost Logic made a quarter-mile pass with their drag car with a time of 7.59 seconds at 304 km/h (189 mph).

[17][18] The record for fastest Supra IRS (independent rear suspension) was set during TX2K20 at 6.807 at 319 km/h (198 mph), held by Jack Cuoto.

[19] In November 2021, Toyota unveiled the GR Supra body for the NHRA's Funny Car category which it competed in 2022 season.

[20] The record for fastest fifth-generation GR Supra is 7.908 seconds at 283 km/h (176 mph) in the quarter mile, set by Mikey Botti in May 2023 at Darlington Dragway.

The Mk II Celica Supras debuted in August 1981, although relatively underpowered to be a serious contender against the Rover SD1 and BMW 635CSI, managed to be competitive despite this, being driven by drivers such as Win Percy winning a BTCC round, at Brands Hatch[23] When its star driver, Percy, was tempted away by rival Tom Walkinshaw and his TWR-prepared Jaguar XJS V12, Toyota GB took on Grand Prix motorcycle racing star Barry Sheene, following his retirement from motorcycle racing, for the 1985 BTCC season, but the car was outclassed by the newer turbocharged cars and Sheene's performance was hampered by past motorcycle racing injuries.

[24] Later the Toyota Team GB Supra was shipped to a privateer in Australia where it won the first Group A race on the continent.

[26] Peter Fitzgerald won the 1989 Australian Production Car Championship driving a Toyota Supra Turbo.

The NA version was shortly replaced by the 300 kW (400 bhp) turbo version, which on its debut at the Rallye Côte d'Ivoire, the Supra led but the team withdrew when their hired Cessna 340 crashed, killing the team manager, Henry Liddon and his assistant, Nigel Harris, plus a pilot and navigator.

[28] TTE would return for its African attempt for the following two years but was unable to repeat its performance and was replaced by the Celica which achieved better successes there.

[29] The Supra has a long history of professional sports car racing, mainly in Japan and the United States.

In August 2022, the GR Supra GT4 earned its 50th class win in a major championship, at the GT World Challenge Asia at Sportsland Sugo in Japan.

[34] Matt Andrews piloted Curtis Chen's Mk IV Supra to a win at the 2008 Super Lap Battle Finals in the Street RWD division with a time of 1:57:711.

Beginning with a four-cylinder 2.1-liter turbocharged 503E (3S-GT) mounted onto a stock bodyshell with wide arch body kit and spoiler.

[35] Over the years, as demands for expensive GT1 race specials became common, the JGTC regulation drifted away from FIA rules, as a result, the Supra has progressively underwent numerous changes over the years,[36] most noticeable, the numerous body changes and by the late 1990s, the Supra used a developed version of the 3SG,[37] which was developed from the IMSA engine and similar to the 3SGTE engine found in the Toyota Corolla WRC car.

[43] In the 2021 Super GT Series, the Toyota Supra GT500 raced by TGR Team au Tom's won the 2021 Championship in the GT500 class, driven by Yuhi Sekiguchi and Sho Tsuboi.

[48] Toyota Supra was used for top level drifting events, most notably Manabu Orido, the D1GP judge turned competitor, who, for personal reasons, chose the JZA80 to be his personal car and his own racecar of Super GT series[49] and Rhys Millen, who briefly converted his Supra race car for use in drift events before selling it on and switching to the works Pontiac GTO.

Some of the most notorious Supras built for drifting in Europe belong to the Russian owned team called Evil Empire, with its headquarters in Sankt Petersburg, and Sergey Kabargin as one of the main drivers.

[55][56] Team Toyo Tires also announced that they will be joining in using the GR Supra, driven by Masato Kawabata, from 2019 onwards.

[62] In November 2020, another GR Supra for Formula D was unveiled by GReddy Performance, powered by a modified B58 powerplant producing 600 kW (800 hp), and driven by Ken Gushi.

[74][75] On February 23, 2019, Christopher Bell of Joe Gibbs Racing scored the Supra's first NASCAR win at Atlanta.

[77] Tuning companies and race teams have often used the Toyota Supra in time attack and speed record motorsport applications, mainly in Japan since the 1980's.

It produced over 535 kW (730 PS; 720 hp), reached 344 km/h (214 mph), and set a lap time at the Tsukuba Circuit of 1 minute 1.97 seconds.

[84][85] In 2023, Masahiro Sasaki set a lap time of 58.038 seconds at the Tsukuba Circuit in the fifth-generation GR Supra tuned by Screen and D2 Racing.