WRC News Latvala keen for more Monza-style events in WRC Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala would like to see events like Monza included in future World Rally Championship calendars. Rally Monza was drafted into the… Read more by Luke Barry December 12, 2024
WRC News Toyota was ready to demote Katsuta, but he saved himself The stakes were astronomical. Toyota headed to its home round of the World Rally Championship, Japan, knowing it needed a near-perfect rally to retain the… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay December 1, 2024 5 min
WRC News Toyota appoints Kankkunen as deputy team principal Four-time World Rally champion Juha Kankkunen will return to the service park with Toyota next season when he joins Jari-Matti Latvala as deputy team principal…. Read more by David Evans November 25, 2024 2 min
WRC News Katsuta cleared to push for Rally Japan win It’s not really a team order, it’s more of an advisory. But it’s one that will be music to the ears of Japanese rally fans… Read more by David Evans November 17, 2024 2 min
WRC News Toyota: Pressure is on Hyundai not us in Japan Hyundai is in the winning position, but it has the most to lose. That’s the mindset Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala is carrying into next… Read more by Luke Barry November 14, 2024 2 min
WRC Podcast Drivers who should’ve been world champion If Thierry Neuville delivers like we all expect him to at next week’s Rally Japan, he will finally remove the ‘shoulda, woulda, coulda’ asterisk that’s… Read more by DirtFish Media November 13, 2024
WRC Podcast Has the team principal role changed in the WRC? With just eight weeks to go until we enter the year 2025, many things remain uncertain as far as the World Rally Championship is concerned…. Read more by DirtFish Media November 6, 2024
WRC News Latvala to be Toyota team principal part-time in 2025 If he’s honest, it wasn’t the job he wanted. Team principal’s nice, but World Rally Championship driver is better. Having signed off on the driving… Read more by David Evans November 5, 2024 2 min
WRC News What’s going on with Ogier? Jari-Matti Latvala has been both fortunate and unfortunate to have seen the very best of Sébastien Ogier up-close. When they were team-mates at Volkswagen, the… Read more by DirtFish Media October 28, 2024 2 min
WRC News Rovanperä to miss Rally Japan season finale Toyota will complete its World Rally Championship defense without Kalle Rovanperä following news that the Finn will not compete at next month’s Rally Japan. The… Read more by David Evans October 21, 2024 3 min
WRC News Regs change brings Imprezas and Lancers back to FIA rallies Let’s all meet up in the year 2000. Rarely has a return to the top of the millennium seen so appealing. Or so achievable. There… Read more by David Evans October 18, 2024 3 min
WRC News Why Rovanperä hasn’t been asked to do CER Toyota’s double world champion Kalle Rovanperä will not contest Central European Rally, the next round of the World Rally Championship. While the Japanese manufacturer had… Read more by David Evans October 4, 2024 2 min
WRC Features WRC is heating up just as its main fight cools off Three weeks earlier, over 12,500km north-west, Jari-Matti Latvala stood shrivelled before the media. The world titles, he thought, had gone. He even went as far… Read more by Luke Barry September 30, 2024 5 min
WRC News Toyota ‘needs’ three full-time drivers in 2025 Jari-Matti Latvala was always the most upfront of drivers. When he made a mistake, he called it. He hid behind nobody and told it the… Read more by David Evans September 14, 2024 2 min
WRC News Why Latvala knows benching is best for Katsuta Not many people truly knew what Takamoto Katsuta was going through on Wednesday. Benched and told he wasn’t wanted for Toyota’s next World Rally Championship… Read more by David Evans September 13, 2024 2 min
WRC Features What next for Katsuta and Pajari? As the World Rally Championship heads west across the Atlantic for Rally Chile, Toyota has made the bold decision to replace Takamoto Katsuta with Sami… Read more by David Evans September 11, 2024 5 min
WRC News Latvala concedes Hyundai will likely win both WRC titles Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala has all-but conceded both World Rally Championship titles are lost for this season, following a nightmare Acropolis Rally Greece. The… Read more by Luke Barry September 8, 2024 3 min
WRC News Why Toyota didn’t change Ogier’s turbo after Evans failure Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala has explained why the turbo on Sébastien Ogier’s Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 wasn’t changed as a precaution after the blower… Read more by David Evans September 6, 2024 2 min
