It’s probably not a group order, it’s extra of an advisory. But it surely’s one which can be music to the ears of Japanese rally followers forward of this week’s World Rally Championship finale: Takamoto Katsuta you’re cleared to shoot for the celebs in Toyota Metropolis.
With Toyota’s greatest brains operating all kinds of calculations and permutations on what must be finished to increase three years of back-to-back producers’ title domination right into a fourth season, Katsuta is free to push for the win he got here so near at house final yr.
We all know this, as a result of group principal Jari-Matti Latvala advised DirtFish.
After sitting out Rally Chile, Katsuta’s return to a GR Yaris Rally1 on the Central European Rally couldn’t have gone higher. He did exactly what he was advised. In three days, he went from regular to much less regular to quickest.
Delighted with Katsuta’s tempo in Passau, Latvala was fast to underline the method for the thirteenth and remaining spherical of the season.