GR Yaris

[Sulland]

Toyota have made a homologation special in the GR Yaris. It is a long time ago, that a manufacturer have dared to make a "Rally car" for petrolheads.

The car have received top notch judgement from journalists and others that have tried it. A real drivers car!

I am guessing this will be the base for the Rally3 car Toyota is making.

There are as I write this many tuning firms that makes tuning parts for this car, that is one of the few that drivers love to play with, on the track, on snow and gravel. This car will become an icon!

But, can the base car be the basis for Yaris Cups around in the world?
Some good coilovers, and new exhaust, and a small chipupdate if needed.
with the base price this car has, it could be a huge success, also in cups!

[Tarmop]

Rally 2, more probably. GR Yaris roadcar is showing similar numbers to it already, Rally 3 a lot less.

[Sulland]

Rally debut in Japan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NBooslqtu2M

Guessing in a pretty standard car.

[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

Just like the pre-Evo & Impreza Group N era..

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[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

https://youtu.be/4MZzYHRQH68

NBM GR Yaris AP4 shakedown..

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[Mirek]

All works Japanese Yaris GR retired on Shinshiro rally, they were also rather slow but I don't know what are the Japanese rules and neither know I anything about the drivers.

[focus206]

All works Japanese Yaris GR retired on Shinshiro rally, they were also rather slow but I don't know what are the Japanese rules and neither know I anything about the drivers.

I noticed that too. There were two works Yaris, driven by Norihiko Katsuta (Takamoto's father, 8 times national rally champion) and Tomoyuki Shinkai (I know nothing about him). Katsuta retired on SS1, Shinkai retired on SS3 while fighting against Kovalainen's GT86 R3...
I'm not sure about the classes either, just that up until last year JN-1 was the main class, basically only Mitsubishi and Subaru... this year it seems they allowed other cars as well, there were also 2 Fabia R5, which ended in 3rd and 4th. 1st and 2nd were Hiroki Arai and his father, with 2 Subaru WRX, which probably are faster than FIA N4 Subaru...

[M5]

Have reliability improved on the GR Yaris used in rally?
Are this car used in rally outside of Japan?

[focus206]

Have reliability improved on the GR Yaris used in rally?
Are this car used in rally outside of Japan?

Norihiko Katsuta won the last 4 rounds of the championship to win the title, beating Fukunaga (slower driver than Katsuta) who drives a Fabia R5.

[MartijnS]

Hans Weijs drove one as frontcar at a Dutch rally last week. His times were comparable to group N Evo X’s.

He has intentions to make a cup of it next year.

https://youtu.be/DY4hr2eDx6M

[Co-driven]

Have reliability improved on the GR Yaris used in rally?
Are this car used in rally outside of Japan?

In Italy there is a Cup with those cars: https://www.ewrc-results.com/season/2021/1854-gr-yaris-rally-cup-i/

I think the drivers aren't the fastest out there, so I think it's a bit complicated to compare performance/reliability...

[Sulland]

We will se them in Rally Monza. They will of course get full attention from the All Live gang!

https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries/72918-forum8-aci-rally-monza-2021/?sct=1854

[WRCStan]

Rally 2, more probably. GR Yaris roadcar is showing similar numbers to it already, Rally 3 a lot less.

Maximum Rally3 engine capacity is 1620cc.
This Yaris 1618cc.
Fiesta 1496cc.

Doesn't anybody else find that a tad convenient?

[Mirek]

Maximum Rally3 engine capacity is 1620cc.
This Yaris 1618cc.
Fiesta 1496cc.

Doesn't anybody else find that a tad convenient?

That's not so simple. IMO the ideal engine capacity strongly depends on the restrictor size, in other words with smaller restrictor the smaller capacity can be more effecient.

[WRCStan]

Maybe so on the stages, are you saying it can't technically be Rally3? This is legal documentation speak so somebody had to have the incentive to argue for and/or decide that limit on paper in Rally3 regulations else why not just call it 1600? It can't have been Ford or the existing R2/Rally4s asking.

[Mirek]

Maybe so on the stages, are you saying it can't technically be Rally3? This is legal documentation speak so somebody had to have the incentive to argue for and/or decide that limit on paper in Rally3 regulations else why not just call it 1600? It can't have been Ford or the existing R2/Rally4s asking.

I probably didn't understand your post properly.

The specific limit 1620 ccm instead of 1600 ccm is old. It goes roughly ten years back to R3T when the limit was enlarged to allow Renault to homologate the Clio. Since that time that value naturally migrated to every other 1600 ccm class because same engines have been used in all of them (except most of the WRC with purpose-built units).

[Sulland]

What modifications from the standard GR Yaris have been done in the different cups around the world?

[M5]

Is there difference in italy cars and portugal cars, or same tech level?