Red grey is 3km from my houseNot to mention the fact that one of the first racing team that adopted the GRY Rally2 is RedGrey team, run by a much famous Ott...
The fresh winner of Rally Estonia, Georg Linnamae, is one of its best drivers.
They are also looking after the Japanese Toyota WRC Challenge drivers. Plenty of cool stuff to see when driving by like recce cars outside.
Scottish roads yesterday and my wife was enjoying being a passenger until we got airborne. I think we were about 1mm off the ground her interpretation is this image
www.hotcars.com
I agree with that. Someone correct if Im wrong but the Rally1 cars are space frame cars which are just made to resemble their street versions. The Rally2 one actually uses stuff from the street car. The engine being probably the most notable one.
True. Hopefully, with the proposed ditching of hybrid in 2026 they could go back to road car chassis if crew safety can remain the same as in Rally1.
Correct. The rally 1 still has to use the bonnet, doors, rear hatch and a few other bits from the road car on its space frame though.
Thanks for sharing - the article makes me wanting to go for a ride, but it‘s Monday morning….
I don't believe that is true. My understanding, in fact, is that the Rally1 car can even be scaled up or down from the road car. I think they _can_ use production body panels, but they're not required to. I believe the Puma is scaled down for Rally1 and the GR Yaris is scaled up for Rally1. I am having trouble finding a good reference for this right now, but I'll include a screenshot below.
I remember an interview with Elfyn Evans at FOS running through the similarities to the Rally1 with the road car and he mentioned that the hatch and bonnet being the same. Also from the Hyundai motorsport website;
IIRC from TGR visit the windscreen shape was similar to Road going GR Yaris, all the else is more or less bespoke. so not so much same parts.
its very much revised chassis even though its of course based on serial production car. the strut mounts and roll cage are quite something.Don't know if it was already posted here but I found this cool article talking about the differences between the road and the Rally2 car. Some pictures about it too.
Revealed: The Real Reason Toyota Developed the GR Yaris
What does the rally-spec Yaris have in common with GR street car? A lot, and we go on-board to find out
I was looking at trying to visit the TGR Cologne museum while in Germany the last few weeks, dates did not work out though.. I did manage to do Porsche/BMW/Audi museums mind. I would be up for a meet up any cologne if one was arranged.
dirtfish.com
I have a GR and an I20N and am also a Max Verstappen fan. Good weekend I'd say.Congrats all to owning a Homologation WORLD CHAMPION Special.
Big big kudos to Sami and Enni winning "despite" running two runs in Rally1, amazing feat!!!
Pajari overhauls Solberg to become WRC2 champion – DirtFish
WRC – Second place in Japan for the Finn was enough to claim this year's WRC2 title
