Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team snatched a one-two finish on the Croatia Rally on Sunday in a dramatic finale, with Sébastien Ogier taking victory over team-mate Elfyn Evans. TGR-WRT maintain their 100 per cent winning record on the demanding asphalt which has been part of the FIA World Rally Championship calendar since 2021. The stages around the Croatian capital Zagreb once more delivered challenging conditions and close competition, with less than 10 seconds separating the top two in the overall standings throughout the weekend. Evans was tied for the lead with his main championship r ..read more

Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team aim to conquer the challenging asphalt roads of the Croatia Rally once more on the fourth round of the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship this week (18-21 April). Since Croatia first joined the WRC schedule three years ago, TGR-WRT have tasted victory with three different drivers in as many editions. Two of those drivers return as part of its line-up for this year’s event, with the 2021 winner Sébastien Ogier set to make his second start of the season alongside 2023 victor Elfyn Evans, and Takamoto Katsuta, who has a trio of top-six finishes in Croatia to hi ..read more

Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team have won the Safari Rally Kenya for the fourth year in a row, with Kalle Rovanperä leading Takamoto Katsuta in a one-two finish. The team continue their unbeaten run on the toughest round of the FIA World Rally Championship since its return to the calendar in 2021, while also extending Toyota’s record Safari victory tally to 12. The result again demonstrates the strength and reliability of the GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid, which for this event featured updated suspension and a distinctive snorkel system: a modern take on an classic feature of Safari-specificatio ..read more

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 Thursday to Sunday this week. 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 its total tally of wins on the event to 11. The results include historic back-to-back 1-2-3-4 results in 2022 and 2023. This year the team are fielding a strong line-up with three drivers wh ..read more

Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team completed a challenging Rally Sweden on a high, (18 February) with Elfyn Evans finishing second and scoring a strong haul of points towards the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship. It was a strong recovery for Evans after he was forced to run first on the road and plough through deep snow on Friday afternoon. Having been just 1.9 seconds from the eventual winner during midday service, he fell back to 1m50s from the lead at the end of the day in the extreme conditions. Moving up from fifth to third on Saturday morning, he then stormed into second place on Sund ..read more

Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team hope to add to their success on snow and ice when they contest the only pure winter event in the FIA World Rally Championship, Rally Sweden, this week (15-18 February). It was in Sweden where TGR-WRT scored their first victory – in only their second event – back in 2017 with Jari-Matti Latvala, now Team Principal, behind the wheel. In all, the team have won four times from six starts in Sweden and will target a strong result in round two of the 2024 season after beginning the year with a double podium at Rallye Monte-Carlo last month. Two-time world champio ..read more

Toyota Gazoo Racing opened its 2024 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) season with a double podium finish at Rallye Monte-Carlo yesterday (28 January), with Sébastien Ogier second and Elfyn Evans third. Both drivers were involved in a fight for victory throughout the event, where they faced a challenging mix of conditions on the asphalt roads of the French Alps. Ogier spectacularly claimed the lead during Saturday afternoon when he recorded the 700th stage win of his WRC career; he went into the final day just 3.3 seconds away from first-placed Thierry Neuville (Hyundai). Despite his best ef ..read more

Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team (TGR-WRT) are targeting a successful start to the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) at the Rallye Monte-Carlo this week (25-28 January). The team enter the new season with high ambitions, having won a hat-trick of manufacturer, driver and co-driver titles in each of the past three years. Their efforts will be supported by development of the GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid to make it stronger: the engine has been updated for better response at low speeds and the torque curve has been improved. The car also has a dramatic new look this season with a matt black l ..read more

Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team (TGR-WRT) are pleased to confirm that the GR Yaris Rally2 has been granted homologation by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), from January 1, 2024. The GR Yaris Rally2 has been developed for customer rallying and is now set for official competition, beginning with the famous Rallye Monte-Carlo later this month. Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) have up to now been participating in the FIA World Rally Championship [WRC] with the GR Yaris Rally1 hybrid, the FIA World Endurance Championship [WEC] with the GR010 hybrid and the FIA World Rally Raid Cha ..read more

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’ title at round 11 of 13 in Chile, before Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen claimed their second successive drivers’ and co-drivers’ crowns at last month’s Central European Rally. Elfyn Evans was a c ..read more