Editing Toyota Celica (section)

=== Circuit racing ===
The first-generation liftback (known as ''[[Toyota Celica LB Turbo|Celica LB Turbo]]'') was used to compete in the [[Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft|DRM]] between 1977 and 1978, the car was capable of producing {{convert|560|hp|0|abbr=on}}. The car was entered by [[Schnitzer Motorsport|Schnitzer]] via Toyota Deutschland and was driven by [[Harald Ertl]] and [[Rolf Stommelen]] for the following season. The car had a limited success scoring only 4th and 8th and was plagued with various problems throughout the two seasons before it was sold to [[TOM'S]] in Japan which under company founder, [[Nobuhide Tachi]], it had a successful career. Tachi also had a successful career with the second-generation version. Despite its limited success in the series, the DRM liftback was immortalized by [[Tamiya Corporation|Tamiya]] as a 1/12 [[radio controlled car]] and a 1/24 static model.<ref>{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Aldridge |url=http://www.tamiyaclub.com/car.asp?id=9 |title=Tamiya Toyota Celica LB Turbo, Vintage Tamiya Radio Control Cars through to Modern Tamiya R/C – Toyota Celica LB Turbo |publisher=Tamiyaclub.com |access-date=2012-04-06 |archive-date=2016-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426043356/http://www.tamiyaclub.com/car.asp?id=9 |url-status=live }}</ref>

An almost identical Celica GT Coupe Turbo was built in Denmark in 1978–1979 and raced by Peter Hansen in the Danish championship. He came second in 1979 before winning the Danish Championship in 1980. The car had the same 2,148&nbsp;cc engine block (18R) and the same Mahle forged pistons as the German DRM car but with an 8-valve cylinder head, producing {{convert|400|hp|kW|abbr=on|order=flip|round=5}}. The Danish-built engine with K-jetronic fuel injection proved more reliable than the mechanically fuel injected Schnitzer built engine. Both engines were equipped with [[Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch|KKK]] turbochargers.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}

[[File:- Flickr - Moto@Club4AG (63).jpg|thumb|left|Toyota Celica Turbo IMSA GTO front]] 
[[File:2006FOS 1987ToyotaCelicaTurboGTO.jpg|thumb|right|Toyota Celica Turbo IMSA GTO rear]]

In circuit racing, the Celica was raced by [[Dan Gurney|Dan Gurney's]] [[All American Racers]] team with factory backing in the [[International Motor Sports Association|IMSA]] [[IMSA GT Championship|GTU]] and [[IMSA GT Championship|GTO]] classes from 1983 to 1988. The team captured many class wins and the GTO Championship in 1987. Slightly modified versions of stock Celicas were also used as the spec car in the [[Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race]], always held during the weekend of the [[Long Beach Grand Prix]] or (from 1976 to 1983) the [[United States Grand Prix West]] until 2005.

The Celica (usually the first through third-generation rear-wheel drive models powered by R series engines) was sometimes raced privately in [[stock car racing]], usually in four-cylinder classes at the grassroots level. A less stock version of the Celica with factory backing and development was campaigned successfully by several drivers in the [[Goody's Dash Series]]. These Celicas started racing in 2000 and had 6th or 7th generation bodies but a steel tube-frame race chassis and a production-based V6 engine that was not available in the street Celica. [[Robert Huffman]] won the 2003 Dash Series Championship driving one of these Celicas, leading to Toyota's entry in the [[NASCAR Truck Series]] the following year and then the [[NASCAR Cup Series]] and the then-[[NASCAR Xfinity Series|NASCAR Busch Series]] in 2007. Osborne Motorsport won their class in the [[2003 Bathurst 24 Hour]] race.

The seventh-generation Celicas were also successfully campaigned in the [[NHRA]] Sport Compact Drag Racing series during the early 2000s. Toyotas run in the NHRA [[Funny Car]] class also used Celica bodies, although besides the body, these cars do not share any resemblance to their street counterparts.

In Japan, the Team [[Racing Project Bandoh]] created a special rear wheel drive variant of the seventh-generation Celica using a 3S-GTE engine, having previously ran a front wheel drive sixth generation model.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.urbanracer.com/garage/jgtc/teams.asp?tid=21 |title=JGTC Garage |website=Urban Racer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041102225749/http://www.urbanracer.com/garage/jgtc/teams.asp?tid=21 |archive-date= 2004-11-02 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was entered into GT300 class of the [[Super GT|Japanese Grand Touring Championship]] (and later [[Super GT]]) until 2008, which they switched their car to [[Lexus IS]]350 in race 3 that season.

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