Elfyn Evans ended an opening day of tricky, changing conditions on Rally Japan with a 15.7s lead as Toyota Gazoo Racing filled the top four places on Friday’s leaderboard.

Sebastien Ogier picked up from where he left off in Japan last season, the nine-time and reigning FIA World Rally champion setting the pace in Thursday morning’s shakedown ahead of Rally Japan.

While many of the stages and surroundings on this week’s Rally Japan will be familiar, the third and final all-asphalt round of the 2026 WRC World Rally Championship will throw new curveballs for the title-chasing crews.

WRC benchmark Sebastien Ogier headed a Toyota Gazoo Racing lockout of the top five after a near-flawless day for the GR Yaris Rally1 fleet on the race track-like asphalt of the Canary Islands Rally.The nine-time and reigning FIA World Rally Champion won four of Friday’s five all-asphalt stages to build...

After three different winners from three very different opening rounds of the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship, Rally Croatia marks the first pure asphalt event of the year and the start of a crucial new phase in what’s been an all-Toyota title fight so far title.Toyota Gazoo Racing (above, in...

Oliver Solberg (above) emerged from the Monte Carlo Rally’s opening leg with a commanding early lead, as snow, ice, fog and darkness combined to deliver a brutal Thursday night in the French Alps for the FIA World Rally Championship’s iconic season-opener. Solberg, who’s been added to Toyota Gazoo Racing’s factory...

Sebastien Ogier secured a record-equaling ninth FIA World Rally Championship title as Thierry Neuville won a bruising Rally Saudi Arabia to close the 2025 season.

Sebastien Ogier clinched his fifth win of the season and surged into the FIA World Rally Championship points lead after a commanding performance on Rally Chile.The eight-time WRC champ (above) completed a remarkable weekend by beating title rival and Toyota Gazoo Racing teammate Elfyn Evans by 11s. Erstwhile points leader...

Kalle Rovanpera’s first FIA World Rally Championship victory of the 2025 season came a big step closer with another near-flawless drive on Saturday’s second leg of Rally Islas Canarias.The Toyota Gazoo Racing star (above) remains firmly on course to become the first-ever winner of a WRC event held on the...

Elfyn Evans is on course to extend his FIA World Rally Championship points lead after he avoided trouble on a chaotic Saturday at Safari Rally Kenya and ended the penultimate leg with a hefty 1m57.4s advantage.Good fortune favored the Toyota Gazoo Racing driver once again as Africa’s legendary test of...