Quote Originally Posted by seb_sh View Post
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.