Toyota drivers welcome split into two rival WRC teams for 2027
Toyota drivers have welcomed the plan to run two separate teams in the World Rally Championship next year.
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Toyota drivers have welcomed the plan to run two separate teams in the World Rally Championship next year.
Sebastien Ogier's World Rally Championship programme for 2027 has yet to be finalised, but Toyota expects the nine-time world champion to contest no more than three rallies.
Toyota has confirmed six drivers for next season's World Rally Championship, with one of them competing on a part-time basis.
Oliver Solberg has described it as "awesome" to be part of the revival of the iconic Toyota Celica name in the World Rally Championship.
Toyota Gazoo Racing has been running a six-day rally simulation at its Jyskä headquarters so that all six crews confirmed for its 2027 World Rally Championship programme can get used to the new car.
Toyota has confirmed that two-time World Rally Championship champion Kalle Rovanpera will return to the WRC in 2027 for a partial programme, selecting rounds of the world rally calendar.
Toyota will run two teams in the 2027 World Rally Championship: Toyota Racing, with Elfyn Evans, Oliver Solberg and Sami Pajari in the GR Celica Rally1, and Gazoo Racing, with Ott Tänak and Takamoto Katsuta full-time and Kalle Rovanperä for around half the season, in the new GR Yaris Rally1.
Kalle Rovanpera and Ott Tanak are set to return to the World Rally Championship in 2027, as part of Toyota's six-car line-up.
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Two-time World Rally Champion Kalle Rovanperä will return to the WRC with GAZOO Racing TOYOTA in 2027, after health problems derailed his plans to move into single-seater racing.
Toyota has explained its plan to run two different Rally1 models in the 2027 World Rally Championship.
Kalle Rovanperä will return to the World Rally Championship in 2027, but only for a partial season, with other projects still to be confirmed.
Kalle Rovanpera and Ott Tanak will rejoin the World Rally Championship next year as part of a six-car Toyota line-up.
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