will carry out development alongside last year’s Tour de Corse winner Stéphane Sarrazin (in conjunction with his duties in the TOYOTA Racing WEC team), and Sebastian Lindholm.


Testing of the Yaris WRC will take in several WRC venues in Europe, on different types of terrain, all of which will help the team prepare its car for 2017, when updated technical regulations are expected to be introduced.


The competitive debut in 2017 will mark almost two decades since the curtain was closed on TOYOTA’s final WRC rally in 1999, bringing an end to over 25 years of continuous rally activity at TMG.


Beginning life as Andersson Motorsport GmbH, named after company founder Ove Andersson, and competing in WRC as TOYOTA Team Europe (TTE), TMG amassed 43 victories with iconic cars like


the Celica Twincam Turbo and GT-Four variants and the Corolla WRC, featuring legendary drivers such as Carlos Sainz, Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol.


TOYOTA and WRC is a combination that evokes memories of past glory and motorsport heritage, but TMG will use its state-of-the-art facilities and contemporary experience to return the TOYOTA name to the international rally stage where it belongs. The countdown to 2017 is already well underway.


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