Toyota Yaris WRC (eBook)

The full story of the Toyota Gazoo Racing WRC campaign

Brian Long, Peter Lyon (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
192 Seiten
Veloce (Verlag)
978-1-83644-016-1 (ISBN)

Infos

GAZOO!

The full story of Toyota's recent and highly-successful World Rally Championship campaign, undertaken by its motorsport subsidiary, Gazoo Racing. Using stunning photography sourced from the factory, the book covers every WRC entry made by Gazoo, and looks back at Toyota's early days in the sport.

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Here is the full and rarely-told story of Toyota's recent and highly-successful World Rally Championship campaign, undertaken by its motorsport subsidiary, Gazoo Racing.
Beginning with a look back at Toyota's early days in the rallying arena, the book quickly moves on to cover each and every WRC entry made by Gazoo, detailing technical changes and the drivers that brought the team victory along the way. Each season from 2017 to the end of 2024 includes full results and a summary for quick reference, as well as a stunning selection of photography sourced from the factory.

Autor

Peter Lyon
Bilingual Australian motor journalist and author Peter Lyon has been writing about new car releases and car culture from Japan since 1988. His articles have been published in Auto Express, Car and Driver, Autocar, Auto Bild, Top Gear, Quattroruote, Forbes, Forbes Japan, GQ Japan, The Sydney Morning Herald, Newsweek Japan, and The Herald Sun.
He co-hosts the English language TV show Samurai Wheels on Japan’s NHK network with ex-F1 racer Ukyo Katayama and was commissioned by JAF to write a book in Japanese on the local car industry in 2014. Lyon co-ordinated Jeremy Clarkson’s BBC ‘Motorworld’ special in 1994 and the ‘Race Across Japan’ Top Gear show in 2008. He has raced cars since 2001, placing 4th in class in the 2010 Nurburgring 24-hour race. He was World Car Awards’ co-chairman from 2010-2020, and is a judge for the Best Cars of the Year and Japan Car of the Year.

Brian Long
Born in Coventry, the heart of Britain's motor industry, Brian comes from a family with a proud heritage in the automotive and aviation fields. He trained as a mechanical engineer, and worked for a time at his father's garage. Brian became heavily involved in the classic car scene at 19, and says he turned to writing by accident. He now writes full-time and, since 1990, when his first book was released, he has had over 80 titles published. Brian and his wife, Miho, have two children, Louis and Sophie-Mercedes. They currently live in Chiba, close to Tokyo, where they can enjoy life with their Dobermann and a Thoroughbred racehorse, now retired from the tracks.

Inhalt

Preface

Chapter 1 The Toyota Story
Chapter 2 The Early TTE Years
Chapter 3 The Group B Monsters
Chapter 4 The Group A Era
Chapter 5 Age of the Corolla WRC
Chapter 6 The Gazoo Story
Chapter 7 The 2017 Season
Chapter 8 The 2018 Season
Chapter 9 The 2019 Season
Chapter 10 The 2020 Season
Chapter 11 The 2021 Season
Chapter 12 The 2022 Season
Chapter 13 The 2023 Season
Chapter 14 The 2024 Season

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2025
• Verlagsort: Exeter
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
• Schlagworte: Toyota, Gazoo, Gazoo Racing, Yaris, WRC, rally, rallying, World Rally Championship, Toyota Yaris rally car, Toyota Yaris racing, Peter Lyon, Brian Long
• ISBN-10: 1-83644-016-2 / 1836440162
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83644-016-1 / 9781836440161