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TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Sets Sail in Search of Sardinian Success

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Friday, May 28, 2021
Rally racing, Auto racing, Rallying, Rally Italia Sardegna, Dani Sordo, Ott Tänak

Rally Italia Sardegna returns to its traditional June date this year after the 2020 edition was switched to the autumn.

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  • Rally Italia Sardegna returns to its traditional June date this year after the 2020 edition was switched to the autumn.
  • The stages are fast but narrow and lined with bushes, trees and rocks, making them tricky for the drivers too.
  • "We had a fantastic result in Portugal and that gives us a good feeling moving onto another gravel rally in Sardinia.
  • "I'm sure that Sardinia will be another demanding rally for us, opening the road again like in Portugal.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WRC Challenge Program

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Friday, July 10, 2020
Rally racing, Auto racing, Takamoto Katsuta, World Rally Championship, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, Toyota Yaris WRC, Rally Estonia, Ott Tänak

Toyota City, Japan, July 10, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WRC Challenge Program will resume when the 2020 FIA World Rally Championship season restarts at Rally Estonia on September 4-6, with up-and-coming Japanese driver Takamoto Katsuta to participate behind the wheel of a Toyota Yaris WRC.

Key Points: 
  • Toyota City, Japan, July 10, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WRC Challenge Program will resume when the 2020 FIA World Rally Championship season restarts at Rally Estonia on September 4-6, with up-and-coming Japanese driver Takamoto Katsuta to participate behind the wheel of a Toyota Yaris WRC.
  • Through the WRC Challenge Program, which aims to develop Japanese rallying talent, Katsuta is training towards the goal of becoming a TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team driver.
  • In 2019 he won WRC2 on Rally Chile, and he claimed two wins in the Finnish Rally Championship before starting his first WRC events in a Toyota Yaris WRC in Germany and Spain.
  • Headquartered in Toyota City, Japan, Toyota has been making cars since 1937.