Not content with having the fastest car, Toyota want brownie points for implementing a synthetic noise system before Hyundai and M-Sport... quote Tom Fowler...

“So it’s actually fitted to the car already now. We’re running it, we have been for several rallies, and if you want my slightly controversial take on it it’s that I think everyone should have it already,” Fowler added.

“And if you can’t develop a sound to come out from your car but you can develop three aero jokers in the same time period, I think your priorities are slightly skewed.”

I find myself increasingly disliking Mr Fowler's tendency to throw shade at Toyota's rivals. Isn't it enough for him to be the technical director of the dominant force in the WRC? Maybe the Hyundai victories in Finland and Japan last year traumatised him.