Toyota announces WRC plans

[EstWRC]

yeah i know, its a joke for me too but im not surprised either...i think there were already rumors about this a long time ago.

[N.O.T]

yeah i know, its a joke for me too but im not surprised either...i think there were already rumors about this a long time ago.

be serious...

[EstWRC]

lol...it doesnt mean that this will happen.

[bluuford]

I think it's more related to how easy it is to register the cars in Estonia than to the cost (in such big project such cost is not that important). We have some of our cars registered in Eesti also and it's much, much easier to do it.

I told you that you need to hire additional person in Finland who counts all the rules and taxes you have to pay to own WRCar

[N.O.T]

lol...it doesnt mean that this will happen.

still, no need to mention stupid rumours.

[seb_sh]

The Japanese driver thing was mentioned some time ago but I don't they said they will put one in from the start. They have a driver development program and I guess they hope to produce one that's good enough.

[pantealex]

Thanks a lot for the info! Only free driver Ostberg? Interesting, Tänak, Sordo, Neuville are all free after this year. What i read out from this is that Tänak is going back to m-sport next year and Neuville and Sordo will stay with Hyundai.

As far as i know that Toyota wants that one driver is japanese. One driver is Hanninen, so basically just 1 seat left then.

Tommi didn´t mentioned Sordo and Tänak at all
(He said: Ogier and JML will continue with VW,
Mikkelsen, Paddon and Meeke all have multi year contracts,
Neuville does´t want to leave Hyundai
that leaves only Östberg available and likely he is willing to join Toyota)

Japanese driver is possible to 3rd car, Mr Toyoda wants that and that is the reason why Arai and Katsuta are driving, I don´t believe that Tommi takes Östberg, I still believe that "old foxes" are driving 1 offs.

[janvanvurpa]

Exactly, in Finland impossible register without airbags etc.

How does that work in rally cars?

Or is it just for car past a certain date?

can't apply to all rally cars, no?
F cup?

[pantealex]

How does that work in rally cars?

Or is it just for car past a certain date?

can't apply to all rally cars, no?
F cup?

old cars don´t need airbags,
F-cars and almost all others have no reg.plates in Finland, they have those sticker plates. (and those stickers are not valid outside Finland, that why Toyota must have plates from another country)

[Simmi]

The Japanese driver thing was mentioned some time ago but I don't they said they will put one in from the start. They have a driver development program and I guess they hope to produce one that's good enough.

Yeah I sincerely doubt they will put either of the development guys into a car from the word go. They've had nowhere near enough experience or relevant seat time. They'll only have done one WRC event in an R5 before next year. Better to have it as a long-term aim.

Besides given the new rules it's debatable whether the FIA would even allow it. Supposedly Toyota are building an R5 so hopefully they could run that a bit more frequently next year - although I've no idea when that car is being homologated.