It won more rounds, scored more podiums; even won more stages this World Rally Championship season. And yet Toyota only beat Hyundai to the manufacturers’ title by three points.
By all accounts, the showdown at Rally Japan was epic as an entire season’s work by both teams came down to just one single stage.
But did Ott Tänak spare Toyota’s blushes by going off on Sunday morning? Do serious questions need to be asked of a team which many believe to have the best car, but almost ended the year trophyless?
Colin Clark and David Evans take up the debate on this week’s SPIN, The Rally Pod, as well as toasting the new world drivers’ and co-drivers’ champions Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe, contemplating what’s going on with Tänak and dissecting the good, the bad and the ugly of Rally Japan.
