WRC Podcast Tom Fowler: Insight into Toyota’s WRC operation SPIN, The Rally Pod comes to you from Jyväskylä, Finland this week as we welcome Toyota technical director Tom Fowler onto the podcast. Sitting down… Read more by DirtFish Media March 5, 2025 10 min +
WRC News How much slower will Rally1 cars be without hybrid? What’s the difference? New tires; no hybrid. Yes, but what’s the difference? It’s the question you and I have been pondering since new Rally1 rules… Read more by David Evans January 18, 2025 5 min
WRC News Fowler not scared of Hyundai’s new 2025 Rally1 car Toyota technical director Tom Fowler says there’s nothing concerning him about the initial specification of Hyundai’s 2025 i20 N Rally1. As part of the homologation… Read more by David Evans October 19, 2024 2 min
WRC Features Why Toyota doesn’t deem 2024 a failure so far Nobody could really take it in. Because it wasn’t really happening. Was it? Jari-Matti Latvala looked at the big screen. Looked away. Looked back. There was… Read more by David Evans September 26, 2024 5 min
WRC News The real reason Evans was 16 minutes late out of service It would have been hard for Elfyn Evans to imagine how his Saturday could have gotten any worse. Ejected from the fight at the front… Read more by Luke Barry August 3, 2024 3 min
WRC Features The thinking behind Toyota’s Safari snorkel Unless you’re a Toyota driver, it’s the talk of Naivasha. Forget Kenya’s big five – the GR Yaris Rally1’s big snorkel has dominated service park… Read more by David Evans March 28, 2024 5 min
WRC News Toyota’s move to make the GR Yaris Rally1 even quicker After arriving into this season with a copy and paste of its all-conquering Toyota GR Yaris Rally1, the Japanese manufacturer is ready to reveal the… Read more by David Evans February 5, 2024 3 min
WRC News Toyota can still win the title without Rovanperä – Fowler Toyota technical director Tom Fowler has full confidence in the team’s 2024 lineup to maintain the Japanese manufacturer’s stranglehold on the World Rally Championship silverware…. Read more by David Evans December 16, 2023 2 min
WRC Features The list of WRC greats Toyota is gunning to join Winning is everything to any competitor in any form of motorsport. But winning at home always means that little bit more. The focus here is… Read more by Luke Barry November 12, 2023 2 min
WRC News Toyota has 2024 update, but won’t use it straight away Toyota already has an update ready for its GR Yaris Rally1 in 2024, but won’t implement it until Safari Rally Kenya at the earliest. Next… Read more by Luke Barry November 9, 2023 3 min
WRC News Toyota explains how it made the wrong tire choice Toyota technical director Tom Fowler doesn’t feel taking no hard compound tires for Saturday morning’s loop of Rally Chile was a mistake, because that would… Read more by Luke Barry September 30, 2023 3 min
WRC News Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 nearing homologation Toyota’s first-ever Rally2 car is on track to be homologated in time for the start of the 2024 season, with early paperwork being submitted to… Read more by Luke Barry September 22, 2023 2 min
WRC News Toyota has improved how it goes testing There have been 23 World Rally Championship rallies since the Rally1 hybrid era was ushered in at the start of 2022. Toyota has won 15… Read more by Luke Barry September 15, 2023 3 min
WRC News Fowler not expecting any caution from Rovanperä Toyota technical director Tom Fowler is confident Kalle Rovanperä’s Rally Finland crash won’t impact on his determination to win the four remaining World Rally Championship… Read more by David Evans September 5, 2023 2 min
WRC News Rovanperä won’t risk it all for a Finland win Kalle Rovanperä has achieved bucket loads in his still-short World Rally Championship career, yet a win on home soil still eludes him. But the 22-year-old… Read more by Luke Barry July 31, 2023 2 min
WRC Features Toyota’s promise that unlocked Rovanperä’s domination For a car made on the world’s fastest rally roads, the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 simply wasn’t fast enough last year. Watching Hyundai beat them… Read more by David Evans July 26, 2023 3 min
WRC News The phone call that helped Evans move past Portugal Late last month, Elfyn Evans’ telephone rang. Finnish number. He recognized it. Answered it. The question was as straightforward as it was sensible. He and… Read more by David Evans June 8, 2023 2 min
WRC News Toyota expected all teams to have sound modules by now Toyota technical director Tom Fowler says his team already had its synthetic sound module ready before it was made mandatory by the FIA, and expected… Read more by Luke Barry April 13, 2023 3 min
