2016 Toyota started the season with a second place and points finish at
Silverstone, and followed up with a good performance at
Spa-Francorchamps only to have engine trouble hit both cars, later attributed to the unique forces applied whilst going through the infamous Eau Rouge corner.
2016 24 Hours of Le Mans Toyota had a very strong race at
Le Mans, qualifying 3rd and 4th behind the two
Porsche 919 Hybrids. The cars worked their way into the lead, setting up what seemed like an inevitable victory, which would be the first for the manufacturer, following four previous second-place finishes in
1992,
1994,
1999, and
2013. As the race drew to a close, the #5 Toyota had a lead over the #2 Porsche. With 6:30 left, the gap between the lead #5 Toyota and the #2 Porsche was 1:14, with both cars on the lead lap. Delayed radio transmissions by
Kazuki Nakajima revealed at about this time that the #5 was experiencing a severe loss of power on acceleration, and this was evidenced by the #2 rapidly catching it. With 4:30 to go, the gap had been reduced to 37.580 seconds, and Toyota had to decide whether to bring its car into the pits or to keep it on the race track. The team elected to keep the car on track, and Nakajima had to stop the car, but stopped it just after the finish line as the #5 car's power gave out entirely, with 3:25 remaining on the clock. The #2 Porsche passed it a few seconds later to claim the LMP1 and overall victories in what turned out to be the final lap of the race. Nakajima held the #5 car stationary just past the start/finish line until the 24 hour clock officially ran out, then pushed the car ahead at whatever speed it could manage to complete the last lap. Officially, it took the #5 Toyota 11:53.815 to complete the final lap of the race, which is above the maximum allowed time of six minutes. This led to the #5 car not being classified in the race results and not earning any championship points.
2017 For the first time since the team rejoined the race in 2012, Toyota announced that it would enter 3 cars at the 2017 Le Mans 24 hours. The third car would be driven by Toyota half-retiree
Stéphane Sarrazin,
Super Formula champion
Yuji Kunimoto and
Nicolas Lapierre (the latter returning after being dropped from the Toyota squad in 2014). On 15 June 2017, a TS050 driven by
Kamui Kobayashi set a lap time record of 3:14.791 during a qualifying session for the
24 Hours of Le Mans. This is the fastest lap ever set at
Circuit de la Sarthe since chicanes were added to the Mulsanne Straight in 1990. During the
24 hour race itself, the No. 8 car finished 8th overall, while the No. 9 and the No. 7 cars had their race cut short due to a puncture and an MGU issue respectively.
2018 , preserved with dirt from the race.
Toyota came into the
2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship season as the only LMP1 team with hybrid entries. After taking a one-two victory at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, they became the second Japanese car manufacturer to win the
24 Hours of Le Mans after
Mazda in 1991 with the
Mazda 787B, Toyota scoring another 1–2 finish. In Silverstone, the Toyotas were disqualified after originally finishing 1–2. The team moved on to take 1–2 in Fuji and Shanghai.
2019 Toyota dominated the 2019 half of Super Season by finishing 1–2 in
Sebring, and the
2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, which along with the win in
2019 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, helped them secure the LMP1 World Endurance Championship. The #8 crew secured the Drivers' title with their victory at Le Mans. For the following
season, a harsher Equivalence of Technology (EoT) was implemented to allow non-hybrid privateer entries compete effectively against the Toyotas, as well as a success ballast, which aimed to handicap cars based on their points total in the championship. The changes had their desired effects, as the TS050's pace advantage was reduced and the privateer cars found themselves closer as the success ballast was implemented. Toyota was able to secure pole positions and 1–2 finishes in
Silverstone and
Fuji, but lost on the overall victory in
Shanghai to
Rebellion, finishing second and third. It was the first time that the TS050 finished a race behind an internal combustion engine privateer. Toyota was able to recover in
Bahrain and secure another 1–2 despite missing out on the pole position on the final race of the year.
2020 Toyota entered 2020 in the lead of both championships halfway through the 2019–20 season, but found themselves down on pace against
Rebellion's R13, as the success ballast penalized said lead in the championship. Toyota missed again on the victory at the
2020 Lone Star Le Mans in favor of the R13, which took pole and lead from the start. Toyota came back to secure another 1–2 finish in the next race at
Spa despite missing out on pole. At the
2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, Toyota took its first pole of the year and the first since Fuji, and the #8 won for the third straight year. The #7 ran on the lead for the first hours of the race until a turbocharger failure during the night caused it to have a lengthy stop. The car recovered and secured third place during the last hour. The Le Mans result clinched the World Endurance LMP1 Championship for Toyota and set a showdown between the two cars at
Bahrain for the drivers' title. The #7 took victory in
Bahrain in what was the last race for the Toyota TS050 Hybrid and
Conway,
Kobayashi and
López secured the World Endurance LMP Drivers' Championship. ==Complete World Endurance Championship results==