He's there now. Only roughly half a minute lost on stage. Could have been a timing glitch to not show him in finish.
Kalle Rovanperä comes through in a time of 10m 28.8s - not a bad time considering his co-driver Jonne Halttunen was having to hold a big bit of interior trim which had been shaken loose!
Aaaaanyway.... back to WRC27 ;)
Notes on the Toyota WRC27 prototypes by WRC Wings:
https://www.wrcwings.tech/2026/06/14/notes-from-the-toyota-wrc27-prototypes/
To be fair most people were onboard with the idea of the 2022 cars being hybrids as at the time most manufacturers were already using this in their road cars, or they were aiming to go full EV....
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I’m putting together a new research cycle focused heavily on recovery, deep sleep, and lean mass preservation. Quality control is obviously everything with these compounds, so I'm...
Do they have this superior technology, strategies and secrets that other teams can't copy them? Even if they would hide nothing no one from other teams would scout over them.
And they wouldn't even let us fans in it to see the cars being serviced or see the drivers.
Its purely for corporate visitor use, I guess they're trying to squeeze some RoI from it.
Aaaaanyway.... back to WRC27 ;) Notes on the Toyota WRC27 prototypes by WRC Wings: https://www.wrcwings.tech/2026/06/14/notes-from-the-toyota-wrc27-prototypes/
WRC mainclass from 2027