Toyota rally cars history. Toyota team europe tte was started in london in 1972 when toyota representatives and ove andersson who won the monte carlo rally in 1971 decided that he should drive a toyota celica in the rac rally in the autumn of that year. And limitless possibilities of cars. Toyota cars have competed in this the worlds greatest rally series from the beginning. In the history of wrc the most blatant case of cheating is toyotas illegal turbo discovered at rally catalunya 1995.
On one hand it was piece of brilliant engineering but on the other hand it. Toyota recently announced that it would return to the fia world rally championship in 2017 overseen by rally superstar tommi maekinen as team principal. Audi sport quattro rs 002. Team toyota andersson enters the rac rally with the celica 1600gt as a works team winning the class title.
The manufacturer has a long and illustrious history in the wrc having won four drivers and three manufacturers championships during that time. Toyota teams have raced in japanese races such as gt car races and the formula nippon. History of toyotas motor sports activities. Andersson came ninth beating other japanese top teams who mostly worked with the datsun 240z.
Our target are all rally fans that we kindly invite to cooperate with us in order to provide all the related information they can the best way to be sure that the final result will be as comprehensive as we all want it to be. The toyota celica had to travel from japan to the european events all. All info about rally cars starts chassis plates owners. There are a lot of legendary standouts in the history of racing and cheating but the one id like to geek out with you over today is the toyota team europe turbo celica cheat of 1995.
Up to the present day we have continued to compete in wrc as a proving ground for making ever better cars.