Japanese star Takamoto Katsuta will share a drive with multiple World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier following his promotion to the Toyota Gazoo Racing Team.
Hyundai Motorsport has announced its new-look driver line-up for next season’s World Rally Championship, with Esapekka Lappi and Craig Breen agreeing personal terms to join its ranks.
Craig Breen has left the M-Sport Ford World Rally Championship team just one year into his two-year contract, saying he believes the decision to be the right one for all parties.
Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Principal Jari-Matti Latvala has described Takamoto Katsuta’s third place finish on Rally Japan as an “important achievement” for him and the team’s Challenge Programme.
Rally Japan winner Thierry Neuville hopes his victory can provide a “special boost” to those working on Hyundai’s World Rally Championship programme after a difficult start to life in the sport’s new hybrid era.
Julien Moncet – Hyundai Motorsport’s Deputy Team Director – is predicting an “exciting” finale to Rally Japan, the concluding round of the 2022 FIA World Rally Championship campaign.
Craig Breen’s shunt on the opening day of Rally Japan is “frustrating” but one that has already been forgotten about, according to M-Sport Ford Team Principal Richard Millener.
Hyundai Motorsport’s interim boss believes finding the root cause of the fire that completely destroyed Dani Sordo’s car on the opening stage at Rally Japan will be virtually impossible.
The chance for Toyota and its all-conquering World Rally Championship team to compete in its own back yard in front of its home supporters is one that it “deserves”, according to one rival Team Principal.
Everyone associated with the Toyota Gazoo Racing squad arrives at Rally Japan this week with “less pressure” on their shoulders, insistsTeam Principal Jari-Matti Latvala.
A Hyundai victory on the season-ending Rally Japan would be the “spark” the Alzenau-based team needs looking ahead to the 2023 World Rally Championship campaign.
Newly crowned World Rally champion Kalle Rovanpera has revealed that he came “really close” to representing his country at this year’s FIA Motorsport Games in France.
The FIA’s Rally Director says increasing the number of manufacturers represented in the World Rally Championship remains a “long-term target” moving forward.
Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Principal Jari-Matti Latvala has suggested that, if he had his way, he would not change the current driver line-up for next year’s FIA World Rally Championship.
With two World Rally Championship rounds remaining, Craig Breen says the objective couldn’t be any simpler: try to get the rub of the green and end the year on something of a high note.
Sebastien Ogier feels the way in which Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Kalle Rovanpera won this year’s World Rally Championship title bore all the hallmarks of “a great champion”.
Finland’s 20-year wait for a new World Rally champion was ended by Kalle Rovanpera as he cruised to victory on the final day of Repco Rally New Zealand.
Toyota Gazoo Racing driver Kalle Rovanpera celebrated his birthday in dream fashion on the penultimate leg of Repco Rally New Zealand by ending Saturday with a near half-minute lead to inch closer to lifting a first World Rally Championship title.
On a day that produced plenty of drama and no fewer than three different leaders, it was Ott Tanak who ended the Friday leg of Repco Rally New Zealand at the top of the time sheets.
How do you prepare for a relative unknown in the World Rally Championship? That is one of the questions surely being asked by team personnel, drivers and co-drivers ahead of Repco Rally New Zealand in just a few days’ time.