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David Floury is a French racing engineer who became technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing's European division (based in Cologne) in January 2024, succeeding Pascal Vasselon, leading Toyota's WEC Hypercar programme. He graduated from France's ESTACA engineering school in 1998, served as technical director at ORECA from 2004, and served concurrently as chief race and test engineer since the founding of Toyota's WEC programme in 2012, joining the Cologne team full-time as deputy technical director in 2021.