Toyota Motorsports GmbH have their own team in SP3 class with a GT86.
TMG pretty much approached the staff "OK, here's a car, here's a budget for the year if you want to race. But you have to manage the championship, cars, drivers and budget all on your own time after work. And if you run over budget that has to come from your own pocket". I was lucky enough to spend time with these guys and they are really a top bunch! The drivers were selected from a competition and TMG staff manage everything else. For example, two metal shop workers are the mechanics. Well it's a white lie because before they were metal shop workers for the F21 and Le Mans programmes, they were mechanics with the WRC team in the Celica and Corolla days!! Team manager is actually one of the logistics guys for the Le Mans team and the pit crew range from fabricators to HR and office staff!
If you know of companies offering similar incentives, please let me know!!!
Anyway, have a read of the article and I'd love to hear your feedback on it. If you've any other questions on the day out, I've plenty of other pics from the day and cool info from teh head engineers from the programme.
http://www.autolifers.com/insight-be...-tmg-gt86-cup/
Ciaran