Geoff Lees and Hitoshi Ogawa scored Toyota's maiden World Championship sportscar victory in the 1992 opener at Monza, a race in which the Japanese marque was firmly the underdog against Peugeot's 905B.
After the withdrawal of Jaguar and Mercedes from the championship, the 1992 season was framed as a season-long Peugeot versus Toyota battle. But after its Monza triumph, where Tony Southgate's new TS010 was the only classified finisher as Yannick Dalmas crashed the leading Peugeot he shared with Derek Warwick almost in sight of the flag, it never again took the top step and Peugeot swept the remaining five races.
