It boasts the sort of gruelling schedule that most modern-day rally drivers will only have read about in the history books, but for Will Midgley, Jonathan Driver and their 25-year-old Toyota Corolla, next week’s Roger
Toyota’s first WRC car was hailed as the purest and most advanced competition machine to emerge from the TTE workshops when it made its debut in 1997. Although it carried over some components from its
Toyota celebrates the glory years of its World Rally Championship campaigns at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed from 2 to 4 July with a roll-call of some of its most celebrated and successful WRC cars.
Juha Kankkunen (44) is one of rallying’s all-time greats. No matter what the achievements of the generations to come, his record of four world championships and 23 world rally victories will endure as one of the most impressive in the history of the sport.
The Group A Toyota Celica GT-Four RC/ST185 made its competition debut in the opening round of the 1992 World Rally Championship series, the Monte Carlo Rally.
Toyota (GB) PLC and Castrol have secured the entry of an additional Toyota Corolla WRC rally car on the forthcoming Network Q Rally of Great Britain in November.
‘Celica Champions’ is a new fine art print from an original by the renowned motor sport artist Craig Warwick.
TV presenter and former Formula One Grand Prix star Martin Brundle will drive a Toyota Corolla World Rally Car in the 1999 Rally of Great Britain (20-23 November).
