Toyota confirms 2026 driver line-up as Oliver Solberg gets promotion
10th November 2025Toyota has confirmed its driver line-up for the 2026 World Rally Championship season, with the 2025 WRC2 champion Oliver Solberg returning to Rally1 after his win on debut.
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Amidst the raging title fight for the driver’s world title, which will go down to the season finale in Saudi Arabia at the end of November, Toyota has confirmed its driver line-up on Monday.
2025 WRC2 Champions, Solberg and Elliott Edmondson, are set to step up onto the big stage next season after being granted a promotion into the senior Toyota squad. It follows on from their stunning win on debut in Estonia.
The Swede/British crew will replace the departing two-time world champions, Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen, after the former announced his departure from the sport to pursue a career in single-seater racing.
Solberg will follow in the footsteps of Sami Pajari, who will remain with the team next season, having gotten a full year’s worth of Rally1 experience this year, including a podium at Rally Japan recently.
Toyota’s first graduate of the Toyota Gazoo Racing WRC Challenge Programme, Takamoto Katsuta, will continue with the team next season and will build upon what has been some of his best performances to date.
The team’s current championship leader, heading into the season finale, Elfyn Evans, will embark on his seventh full season with the squad and stands as the last full-time driver on the list.
Sebastien Ogier will continue to drive for Toyota too with another partial programme, which will start once more at January’s Rallye Monte-Carlo, an event he has won a record-breaking 10 times, which he achieved this season. He is expected to compete in more than half the season’s rounds alongside co-driver Vincent Landais.
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