2024 WRC News & Rumours

[saco0o]

Norihiko Katsuta (Takamoto's dad) and Fukunaga are old veterans, 50+ year olds. Hiroki Arai was one of the two Toyota young guys and in the end they chose Takamoto over him.

for real? whoooa, interesting! haha on the yokohama tires page they post japanese championship results and some footage, didnt knew these guys, was only reading the names haha. thanks for the info

[Kenneth]

Norihiko Katsuta (Takamoto's dad) and Fukunaga are old veterans, 50+ year olds. Hiroki Arai was one of the two Toyota young guys and in the end they chose Takamoto over him.

Iirc Arai was little bit bellow level of speed back then when he was in academy alongside Taka, but was even more inconsistent.

But Toyota have new bunch of academy drivers now, I'm pretty soo one of them will be in Rally1 in year or two.

[Walach]

The second generation of academy drivers is already 27 years old Yuki Yamamoto https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile...yuki-yamamoto/ and Hikaru Kogure (23) https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile...hikaru-kogure/ and looking at their performances, there is very little reason to believe that one of them will be in Rally1 in a year or two, they have plenty to do even with rally2 for now.

[deephouse]

Actually, Katsuta was very consistent a while ago, I don't know what got him at the moment. And the speed. He wasn't doing good but finished the rallies. I was quite sure, he would never get faster. Now he is fast but inconsistent. Remember that Neuville was the same. Even Tanak bin it quite often. Breen, Meeke...

[CeskyOndra]

Actually, Katsuta was very consistent a while ago, I don't know what got him at the moment. And the speed. He wasn't doing good but finished the rallies. I was quite sure, he would never get faster. Now he is fast but inconsistent. Remember that Neuville was the same. Even Tanak bin it quite often. Breen, Meeke...

I would give him last chance next year, every champ began with mistakes

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Can this be true !?

Jorge Basualdo @jorge_basualdo:

We have confirmed that there is an order for 9 Rally1 cars from Paraguayan drivers for the 2025 Paraguay WRC Rally.
The expectation is at its maximum !!

[becher]

Can this be true !?


Jorge Basualdo @jorge_basualdo:

We have confirmed that there is an order for 9 Rally1 cars from Paraguayan drivers for the 2025 Paraguay WRC Rally.
The expectation is at its maximum !!

Sounds a bit crazy, would there even enough chassis around and the will by Toyota and Hyundai to offer/run them?

[TypeR]

don't tell fia and wrc about it.. otherwise they take it as ,,You see, so many cars, we don't need to change anything about WRC's future''.

[macebig]

Do they still think it's Group A days? Nobody can supply them with 9 cars. Even if the teams had the ability to do it, it makes no sense for them to get so many chassis up and running for just one event.

[saco0o]

Can this be true !?

Jorge Basualdo @jorge_basualdo:

We have confirmed that there is an order for 9 Rally1 cars from Paraguayan drivers for the 2025 Paraguay WRC Rally.
The expectation is at its maximum !!

"renting" cars, right? not buying, i assume.
im south american, gonna keep an eye on the rally midia here. thats really interesting tho