Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team face another tough gravel challenge this week at Rally Italia Sardegna, the sixth round of the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship. After victories in the last three events in Kenya, Croatia and Portugal, the team are targeting another strong result on the Italian island of Sardinia, looking to fight back in the championship where they trail the leaders in the … [Read more...]
Evans faces Portugal test in WRC this week
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team will take on the Rally de Portugal this week 9-12 May with a strong line-up of four crews ready to continue the team’s run of success on the popular gravel event. For the first time this season, the team will be able to count on both of its world champion drivers, Kalle Rovanperä and Sébastien Ogier, winners of the last two rounds in Kenya and Croatia … [Read more...]
Toyota hunt more success on Safari this week
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team are targeting further success on Safari Rally Kenya, the only African round in the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship which takes place from today until Sunday. Since returning to the WRC calendar in 2021, the Safari has restored its reputation as one of motorsport’s toughest challenges, one that TGR-WRT have risen to with three consecutive victories, extending … [Read more...]
Toyota GR Yaris will be exclusive and expensive
The new Toyota GR Yaris is expected to be one of the most in-demand new cars of 2024, building on the critical acclaim and public popularity of the original model which brought authentic World Rally-bred engineering to the road. With only very limited numbers of the new GR Yaris available this year, Toyota (GB) is putting a tailor-made sales process in place to help ensure fairness. The … [Read more...]
Toyota team eye-up home victory to crown season
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team will seek to wrap up another successful FIA World Rally Championship season with a home win at Rally Japan this week 16-19 November. Just as in 2022 when the event made a welcome return to the WRC calendar, TGR-WRT will arrive for the final round on Japanese roads having already secured a hat-trick of championship titles. The team clinched the manufacturers’ … [Read more...]
Rovanperä clinches second WRC crown
Kalle Rovanperä has become a two-time WRC champion, clinching the title on Sunday after finishing second overall at Central European Rally with Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team. By finishing runner-up to Thierry Neuville at this penultimate round, the 23-year-old ensured he can no longer be caught in the 2023 season. Just one year ago, Rovanperä made history when he became the youngest ever … [Read more...]
Three-in-one event may decide WRC for drivers
Fresh from its latest manufacturers’ championship success, Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team will face an all-new challenge at the penultimate round of the 2023 season: the Central European Rally, 26 – 29 October in Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria. After TGR-WRT secured its third consecutive manufacturers’ title on the previous rally in Chile, attention now turns to whether Kalle … [Read more...]
Evans leads Toyota to another WRC title
Welsh driver Elfyn Evans led the Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team to the manufacturer's title in the World Rally Championship at the weekend in South America. The team retained their crown as manufacturers’ champions and are guaranteed another clean sweep of FIA World Rally Championship titles in 2023 after an exciting finale to Rally Chile on Sunday. Elfyn Evans (above) finished third, … [Read more...]
Toyota make it three in Estonia and extend WRC lead
Kalle Rovanperä has stormed to a dominant Rally Estonia victory for the third year in a row with Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team, extending his lead in the FIA World Rally Championship. Guided by co-driver Jonne Halttunen, Rovanperä (below) once again looked completely at home aboard his GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid on some of the fastest roads in the WRC. He held a narrow lead at the end of … [Read more...]
Toyota tighten belts for fastest WRC event
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team are ready to increase the pace for round eight of the 2023 season at Rally Estonia, 20-23 July, the first part of a double-header in northern Europe that takes in some of the fastest roads in the FIA World Rally Championship. After a trio of rough and increasingly demanding gravel rallies in Portugal, Sardinia and Kenya, attention now turns to smoother and … [Read more...]
