On one hand, would make more sense, as Pechito López is a Toyota driver.
But on the other hand I don't think he ever competed in rally.
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On one hand, would make more sense, as Pechito López is a Toyota driver.
But on the other hand I don't think he ever competed in rally.
4th Yaris in Argentina: Lopez was original idea, but WEC calendar clashes with Rally Srgentina, therefore the talks for another driver
It looks like Federico Villagra with codriver Virginia Klus will be part of the WRC class with a fourth Toyota. Virginia is usually the codriver of his father on a Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX.
Here Villagra and Klus when they shared a Maxi Rally Ford Fiesta in 2019
https://i.postimg.cc/rdTcGLyT/Villagra-Klus.jpg
Villagra is very experienced starting with motocross since he was 12 years old, then he started with rally cars. He raced on some races of the world championship between 1998 and 2011 (even have had his own rally team on the world championship).
Between Villagra (9) and Marcos Ligato (4) they count 13 of the last 14 argentine rally championship. Said that, obviosly he seems old for this kind of cars but it's an one off race. There are youngest drivers but with lack of experience.
https://www.rallit.fi/toyotan-wrc-ti...olle-japaniin/
There was some debate here after Sweden whether Latvala would get a discount from TGR for Sardegna or if he gets the Yaris for free. According to what Latvala says in this story there will only be some logistics expenses for him to pay, otherwise he gets to drive the car for free. No wonder JML praises Tommi and the Japanese bosses (who obviously had something to do with it as well) in the story.
According to Autosport Portugal, Subaru is not returning to WRC https://www.rallit.fi/huhuille-tyly-...in-mm-sarjaan/