NEWS

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team has started the 2023 FIA World Rally Championship with a one-two finish on Rallye Monte-Carlo as Sébastien Ogier claimed a record ninth victory on the legendary event ahead of team-mate Kalle Rovanperä.

On January 15, the 2023 Dakar Rally took participants to their final SS (competition stage), a 138km stage which took place between Al-Hofuf and Dammam in Saudi Arabia. After the SS and a 100km liaison, they arrived at the final goal in Dammam. A goal ceremony was held in the city at King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), marking the end of the 15-day rally. The TLC Land Cruiser 300 cars reached the finish with the following rankings in this SS: Akira Miura and Laurent Lichtleuchter in car #246 came in 73rd place overall in the cars category and 2nd place in the production cars category, while Ronald Basso and Jean-Michel Polato in car #250 came in 72nd place overall and 1st in the production cars category. With these results, the cumulative ranking for car #250 is 107th place overall and 1st in the production cars category, and for car #246, 108th overall and 2nd in their category, resulting in a one-two finish for TLC, setting an unprecedented achievement of 10 consecutive victories in a category.

-1st overall for Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel

-4th overall for Giniel de Villiers and Dennis Murphy

-5th overall for Henk Lategan and Brett Cummings

-4 Toyota Hilux T1+ in Top 5

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team aims to begin the defence of its FIA World Rally Championship titles with a victory on the legendary Rallye Monte-Carlo, which opens the 2023 season on January 19-22.

-Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel maintain lead of more than 1hr 20min

-Three stages remain in DAKAR 2023

-Out-leg of Marathon Stage completed successfully