TOYOTA GAZOO Racing heads north in search of further snow success

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing heads north in search of further snow success



TOKYO, Feb 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – After making a near-perfect begin to the 2021 period on Rallye Monte-Carlo last month, the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team will certainly target one more solid outcome on Arctic Rally Finland on 26-28February Making its launching in the FIA World Rally Championship, the occasion takes the area of the terminated Rally Sweden as the period’s only pure wintertime round. The group will certainly take a trip north from its base in main Finland intending to proceed the solid document of the Toyota Yaris WRC on snow as well as ice, having actually asserted 3 success in Sweden in the previous 4 periods.


2021 Yaris WRC

Following his document eighth Monte-Carlo triumph, Sebastien Ogier leads the champion simply in advance of team-mate Elfyn Evans (that won for the group in Sweden in 2020) while Kalle Rovanpera is 4th – as well as expecting a reward occasion in his house nation together with the champion’s typical summer season check out to Finland.

Born out of the Arctic Lapland Rally held in the location every January, the occasion will certainly be based in Rovaniemi – resources of Finland’s northern most area – with some phases happening inside theArctic Circle The area assures fantastic wintertime rallying problems, with icy roadways as well as high snow financial institutions at the sides of the roadway, which chauffeurs lean on to lug even more rate via edges. Special studded tires will certainly attack right into the icy surface area to supply grasp as well as some of the greatest rates of the whole period.

The rally will go to a compressed layout with 10 phases supplying an overall of 251.08 affordable kilometres. Following shakedown on Friday early morning, the rally includes a requiring begin with 2 runs over the lengthiest examination of the rally, the 31.05-kilometre Sarriojarvi phase, with the 2nd pass to happen in darkness. Saturday is the lengthiest day of the rally, with a loophole of 3 phases to be duplicated either side of mid-day solution with one more late coating. The last day on Sunday is composed of 2 overlooks the Aittajarvi examination, the last as the Power Stage.

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