Jari-Matti Latvala says Toyota must continue to improve its WRC car in the wake of Hyundai's victory in Rally Finland.
Tanak and Hyundai caused an upset by winning in the Toyota WRC team’s backyard last weekend, ending the Japanese marque’s 100 percent winning record at the fast gravel event since rejoining the WRC in 2017.
Toyota has so far dominated the new Rally1 hybrid era, with Rovanpera winning five of eight events driving the GR Yaris that has proven to be the fastest and most reliable of the new-for-2022 cars. Only last month the team released a sizeable update to the GR Yaris’ engine and rear wing, that debuted in Rally Estonia last month, in a bid to unlock more pace.
“It is not exciting if you win the rally by minutes so I think it is good that they [Hyundai] have made steps,” said Latvala. “We also need to keep working and we must remember that. When somebody is getting closer you need to work more and more. Reflecting on the weekend, Latvala said he wasn’t “that disappointed” to lose on home soil to a perfect weekend performance from Tanak. “Overall, we had a good weekend, we finished second, third, fourth and sixth, four cars in the top six. We could have won and sure that is disappointing.
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