Toyota seem to accept that some competition is good for the WRC and will concentrate their development on the new WRC27 Car.
They finally sorted the car for fast gravel after moving their test base to Finland. Now they moved to Southern France to sort it for rough slow gravel. I think they've given up on tarmac as there...
Or the speed of H`s will go away as soon as conditions will change - probably in the second loop today - hope not but it happens already numerous times.
I would wait until the end of the rally. Even if they have a made step now, Toyota will soon answer with their upgrades

The most confusing thing is the decline in their tarmac performance. 2017 car was good on tarmac and also the pre-evo version of the rally1 was fast. I don't understand how is it possible for such a...
[WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal...