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Yes, but that is a re-badged Subaru
I suppose they could use a Lexus LFA, and homologate it in RS-GT class
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Yes, but that is a re-badged Subaru
I suppose they could use a Lexus LFA, and homologate it in RS-GT class
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GT86 could be made four wheel drive with ease
And homologation could mean a turbo charged road car which would be ace as they lack power in stock form
And homologation could mean a turbo charged road car which would be ace as they lack power in stock form
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It will never happen They will race a "Yaris" or whatever else they want to see on the billboards.
These cars are like BTCC after all. Nothing at all to do with any kind of production car other than a vague likeness to the shell. Complete one-off specials. They just slap whatever badge they want on it.
They will race a "Yaris" or whatever else they want to see on the billboards.These cars are like BTCC after all. Nothing at all to do with any kind of production car other than a vague likeness to the shell. Complete one-off specials. They just slap whatever badge they want on it.
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It would qualify in R-GT class, now that you can homologate private entries
Lotus actually ran an Exige a couple of years ago, only car in the class apparently. Just for a race or two though
Lotus actually ran an Exige a couple of years ago, only car in the class apparently. Just for a race or two though
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Great news, wish they were coming back sooner.
Hope they sell customer cars and build some lower formula cars too.
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Whats the major changes in 2017 in short?
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Fantastic news that! Finally some place they see sense
F1 should do the same and ditch that rubbish...
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They'll probably stick with the same sized cars, but with safety enhancements.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117111
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117111
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German humour, lol
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Toyota Twitter feed is a good follow.
@tmgofficial: @WorldRallyBlog
Several tests in 2015 at different venues in Europe.We will not announce a detailed programme to avoid unwanted attention
@tmgofficial: @WorldRallyBlog
Several tests in 2015 at different venues in Europe.We will not announce a detailed programme to avoid unwanted attention
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There was talk of having the driver and navigator seated in tandem rather than side by side to increase side impact protection. I'm not sure how that would fit in practice though.
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Have to say miss the bigger cars in rally, but thought Monte Carlo was quite exciting.
Disappointing to see Meek bringing up the rear in the table however he definitely showed his worth in the power stage.
Im still in shock at how switched on and competitive Loeb is even in retirement, as @svensktoppen said, still easily taking the fight to the best and current drivers.
Disappointing to see Meek bringing up the rear in the table however he definitely showed his worth in the power stage.
Im still in shock at how switched on and competitive Loeb is even in retirement, as @svensktoppen said, still easily taking the fight to the best and current drivers.
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Just found this while digging through my press hub...
Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) will return to the FIA World Rally Championship in 2017 with a car developed and built entirely at its technical centre in Cologne.
Over the next two years TMG will continue its test programme with the Yaris WRC in preparation for a return to the series in which it won four drivers’ and three manufacturers’ world championships in the 1990s.
The news was announced today by Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President, at a news conference where the Yaris WRC made its public debut, in its new launch livery.
The Yaris WRC has already completed a preliminary test programme on Tarmac and gravel stages across Europe, establishing a promising baseline on which to build over the coming months.
The car features a 1.6-litre turbocharged, direct injection engine producing more than 300bhp. Its chassis has been formed using advanced simulation, testing and production techniques.
Now that an official WRC programme has been confirmed, development will be expanded and the dedicated team of specialists to engineer and run the car will be increased.
Several young drivers have already tested the car and Frenchman Eric Camilli, 27, has been selected as the first member of a junior driver development scheme, designed to nurture the Toyota rally stars of the future.
Camilli will carry out the development programme alongside Stéphane Sarrazin, winner of last year’s Tour de Corse and a racer in Toyota’s FIA World Endurance Championship team, and Sebastian Lindholm.
The programme will include several European WRC venues, with different surfaces. The experience gained will help Toyota’s preparation of the car for the 2017 season, when updated championship regulations are expected to be introduced.
The Yaris WRC follows an illustrious line of Toyota WRC cars and its 2017 debut will come 18 years after Toyota’s final WRC rally, in 1999.
That season marked the end of more than 25 years’ continuous rally activity at TMG, which began life as Andersson Motorsport, named after the company’s founder, the late Ove Andersson, and which competed in the WRC as Toyota Team Europe.
During that time the team achieved 43 wins, with celebrated cars such as the Celica Twin-cam Turbo and GT-Four and the Corolla WRC. The line-up of legendary drivers included Carlos Sainz, Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol.
Yoshiaki Kin****a, TMG President, said: “It is a great honour to be asked to bring the Toyota name back to the World Rally Championship alongside our continued participation in the World Endurance Championship.
“To run two works motorsport programmes simultaneously is of course a challenge but we believe we have the expertise and determination to succeed. There is much to do as we make the journey back to WRC but to have received the support of Toyota Motor Corporation and our President Akio Toyoda is already very encouraging.
“We are looking forward to taking the next steps with an extensive development plan and a junior driver development programme. It is an exciting time and we are looking forward to this new challenge with great anticipation.”
YARIS WRC TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
CHASSIS
Type Steel body shell
Brakes 300mm discs (gravel)355mm discs (Tarmac)
Wheels 7 x 15in (gravel)8 x 18in (Tarmac)
Tyres Michelin
DIMENSIONS
Length (mm) 3,910
Width (mm) 1,820
POWERTRAIN
Engine type Four-cylinder in-line
Capacity 1.6-litre
Direct injection pressure Up to 200bar
Fuel Petrol
Max. turbo pressure 2.5bar
Air restrictor 33mm
Max. power 300bhp @ 6,000rpm (approx..)
Max. torque 420Nm
Max. revs 8,500
Transmission Six-speed sequential
Clutch ZF Sachs
TOYOTA’S WRC HERITAGE
1973 Manufacturers’ Championship: 10th (1 win)
Toyota’s first victory, Walter Boyce/Doug Woods driving a Corolla TE20 on the Press On Regardless Rally (United States)
1974 Manufacturers’ Championship: 4th
Future World Champion Björn Waldegaard makes his Toyota debut
1975 Manufacturers’ Championship: 7th (1 win)
First victory for TTE with Hannu Mikkola/Atso Aho driving a Corolla Levin in the 1000 Lakes Rally (Finland)
1976 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th
1977 Manufacturers’ Championship: 3rd
1978 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th
1979 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th
1980 Manufacturers’ Championship: 7th
1981 Manufacturers’ Championship: 8th
1982 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th (1 win)
TMG founder Ove Andersson drives in WRC for the last time, driving a Celica 2000GT
1983 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th (1 win)
1984 Manufacturers’ Championship: 4th (1 win)
First Safari Rally (Kenya) victory with Björn Waldegaard/Hans Thorzelius driving a Celica Twin-cam Turbo (TA64)
1985 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th (2 wins)
1986 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th (2 wins)
Toyota’s third successive Safari Rally win, with Björn Waldegaard/Fred Gallagher driving a Celica Twin-cam Turbo (TA64)
1987 Manufacturers’ Championship: 7th
1988 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th
Introduction of the Celica GT Four, which would go on to win 29 WRC rallies and six World Championships (two manufacturers’ and four drivers’) in its ST165, ST185 and ST205 guises
1989 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (1 win)
Carlos Sainz makes his Toyota debut, competing in seven rallies and finishing on the podium in three
1990 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (5 wins)
Carlos Sainz becomes Toyota’s first drivers’ World Champion, at the wheel of a Celica GT-Four (ST165)
1991 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (6 wins)
Toyota’s’ first victory in the legendary Monte Carlo Rally
1992 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (5 wins)
1993 Manufacturers’ Championship: 1st (7 wins)
Toyota becomes the first Japanese company to win the World Rally Championship
1994 Manufacturers’ Championship: 1st (5 wins)
Toyota achieves a second hat-trick of Safari Rally wins, with Ian Duncan driving a Celica Turbo WRC
1995 Manufacturers’ Championship: 3rd, disqualified (1 win)
1998 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (3 wins)
After a two-season absence, Toyota wins on its return at the first attempt, in the Monte Carlo Rally, thanks to Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya in a Corolla WRC
1999 Manufacturers’ Championship: 1st (1 win)
Toyota’s third manufacturers’ World Championship; only two companies have won more in WRC history
Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) will return to the FIA World Rally Championship in 2017 with a car developed and built entirely at its technical centre in Cologne.
Over the next two years TMG will continue its test programme with the Yaris WRC in preparation for a return to the series in which it won four drivers’ and three manufacturers’ world championships in the 1990s.
The news was announced today by Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President, at a news conference where the Yaris WRC made its public debut, in its new launch livery.
The Yaris WRC has already completed a preliminary test programme on Tarmac and gravel stages across Europe, establishing a promising baseline on which to build over the coming months.
The car features a 1.6-litre turbocharged, direct injection engine producing more than 300bhp. Its chassis has been formed using advanced simulation, testing and production techniques.
Now that an official WRC programme has been confirmed, development will be expanded and the dedicated team of specialists to engineer and run the car will be increased.
Several young drivers have already tested the car and Frenchman Eric Camilli, 27, has been selected as the first member of a junior driver development scheme, designed to nurture the Toyota rally stars of the future.
Camilli will carry out the development programme alongside Stéphane Sarrazin, winner of last year’s Tour de Corse and a racer in Toyota’s FIA World Endurance Championship team, and Sebastian Lindholm.
The programme will include several European WRC venues, with different surfaces. The experience gained will help Toyota’s preparation of the car for the 2017 season, when updated championship regulations are expected to be introduced.
The Yaris WRC follows an illustrious line of Toyota WRC cars and its 2017 debut will come 18 years after Toyota’s final WRC rally, in 1999.
That season marked the end of more than 25 years’ continuous rally activity at TMG, which began life as Andersson Motorsport, named after the company’s founder, the late Ove Andersson, and which competed in the WRC as Toyota Team Europe.
During that time the team achieved 43 wins, with celebrated cars such as the Celica Twin-cam Turbo and GT-Four and the Corolla WRC. The line-up of legendary drivers included Carlos Sainz, Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol.
Yoshiaki Kin****a, TMG President, said: “It is a great honour to be asked to bring the Toyota name back to the World Rally Championship alongside our continued participation in the World Endurance Championship.
“To run two works motorsport programmes simultaneously is of course a challenge but we believe we have the expertise and determination to succeed. There is much to do as we make the journey back to WRC but to have received the support of Toyota Motor Corporation and our President Akio Toyoda is already very encouraging.
“We are looking forward to taking the next steps with an extensive development plan and a junior driver development programme. It is an exciting time and we are looking forward to this new challenge with great anticipation.”
YARIS WRC TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
CHASSIS
Type Steel body shell
Brakes 300mm discs (gravel)355mm discs (Tarmac)
Wheels 7 x 15in (gravel)8 x 18in (Tarmac)
Tyres Michelin
DIMENSIONS
Length (mm) 3,910
Width (mm) 1,820
POWERTRAIN
Engine type Four-cylinder in-line
Capacity 1.6-litre
Direct injection pressure Up to 200bar
Fuel Petrol
Max. turbo pressure 2.5bar
Air restrictor 33mm
Max. power 300bhp @ 6,000rpm (approx..)
Max. torque 420Nm
Max. revs 8,500
Transmission Six-speed sequential
Clutch ZF Sachs
TOYOTA’S WRC HERITAGE
1973 Manufacturers’ Championship: 10th (1 win)
Toyota’s first victory, Walter Boyce/Doug Woods driving a Corolla TE20 on the Press On Regardless Rally (United States)
1974 Manufacturers’ Championship: 4th
Future World Champion Björn Waldegaard makes his Toyota debut
1975 Manufacturers’ Championship: 7th (1 win)
First victory for TTE with Hannu Mikkola/Atso Aho driving a Corolla Levin in the 1000 Lakes Rally (Finland)
1976 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th
1977 Manufacturers’ Championship: 3rd
1978 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th
1979 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th
1980 Manufacturers’ Championship: 7th
1981 Manufacturers’ Championship: 8th
1982 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th (1 win)
TMG founder Ove Andersson drives in WRC for the last time, driving a Celica 2000GT
1983 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th (1 win)
1984 Manufacturers’ Championship: 4th (1 win)
First Safari Rally (Kenya) victory with Björn Waldegaard/Hans Thorzelius driving a Celica Twin-cam Turbo (TA64)
1985 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th (2 wins)
1986 Manufacturers’ Championship: 6th (2 wins)
Toyota’s third successive Safari Rally win, with Björn Waldegaard/Fred Gallagher driving a Celica Twin-cam Turbo (TA64)
1987 Manufacturers’ Championship: 7th
1988 Manufacturers’ Championship: 5th
Introduction of the Celica GT Four, which would go on to win 29 WRC rallies and six World Championships (two manufacturers’ and four drivers’) in its ST165, ST185 and ST205 guises
1989 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (1 win)
Carlos Sainz makes his Toyota debut, competing in seven rallies and finishing on the podium in three
1990 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (5 wins)
Carlos Sainz becomes Toyota’s first drivers’ World Champion, at the wheel of a Celica GT-Four (ST165)
1991 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (6 wins)
Toyota’s’ first victory in the legendary Monte Carlo Rally
1992 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (5 wins)
1993 Manufacturers’ Championship: 1st (7 wins)
Toyota becomes the first Japanese company to win the World Rally Championship
1994 Manufacturers’ Championship: 1st (5 wins)
Toyota achieves a second hat-trick of Safari Rally wins, with Ian Duncan driving a Celica Turbo WRC
1995 Manufacturers’ Championship: 3rd, disqualified (1 win)
1998 Manufacturers’ Championship: 2nd (3 wins)
After a two-season absence, Toyota wins on its return at the first attempt, in the Monte Carlo Rally, thanks to Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya in a Corolla WRC
1999 Manufacturers’ Championship: 1st (1 win)
Toyota’s third manufacturers’ World Championship; only two companies have won more in WRC history
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