Papercraft model of the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1, the car with which Toyota Gazoo Racing competes under the WRC's current hybrid regulations.
| Manufacturer | Toyota |
|---|---|
| Season | 2022 |
| Category | Racing |
| Scale | 1:24 |
| Difficulty | Medium |
| Estimated time | 4-5 hours |
| Print format | 4 A4 sheets |
| Source | seyforegdesignpapercraft.blogspot.com |
What you'll need: 200-250 gsm paper or cardstock, scissors or a craft knife, a ruler and glue stick.
Introduced in 2022 alongside the new Rally1 regulations, the GR Yaris has driven Toyota Gazoo Racing and drivers like Kalle Rovanperä to successive world titles.
The GR Yaris Rally1 is the latest step in Toyota Gazoo Racing's rally program, the competition arm that brought the brand back to the top of the WRC after its official return to the championship in 2017 under Tommi Mäkinen, the Finnish former driver and four-time world champion who took over as team principal. With the arrival of the new Rally1 regulations in 2022, which introduced hybrid units alongside the combustion engines, Toyota adapted its road-going Yaris into a competition prototype that is almost unrecognizable beneath the bodywork, keeping the commercial name as a link to the production model, which also has a homologated road-legal version.
Under Mäkinen's leadership, and with drivers like Kalle Rovanperä, who became the youngest world champion in WRC history in 2022, plus Sébastien Ogier and Elfyn Evans, Toyota Gazoo Racing has strung together several consecutive manufacturers' and drivers' titles with the GR Yaris, establishing itself as the benchmark team of the hybrid Rally1 era. The project also reflects Toyota Gazoo Racing's broader philosophy of using competition as a testbed for technology that later filters down to the brand's road cars.