Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team has wrapped up the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship manufacturers’ title at Rally Chile, where Oliver Solberg led a one-two finish. The result equals Lancia’s run of six consecutive titles from 1987 to 1992 and puts Toyota level with the Italian marque on 10 manufacturers’ crowns in total. With two rounds still to run, three Toyota drivers remain in contention for the drivers’ championship.
Toyota has secured the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship manufacturers’ title with two rounds to spare, clinching it at Rally Chile through a one-two finish led by Oliver Solberg. The team notes that the result remains subject to the official publication of the classification by the FIA.
It is the team’s sixth consecutive manufacturers’ championship, a run that matches Lancia’s six straight titles between 1987 and 1992. It also brings Toyota level with Lancia on 10 manufacturers’ titles overall.
Eleven wins from twelve rallies
Chile was the GR Yaris Rally1’s 11th victory from 12 events this season, and the team’s eighth one-two finish of the year. For Solberg and co-driver Elliott Edmondson it was a second win of 2026 after their success at the season-opening Rallye Monte-Carlo, which means all five of the team’s crews have now won more than one rally this season.
Solberg built his lead in wet and muddy conditions on Friday morning, moving ahead of team-mate Elfyn Evans early on and extending the gap as the stages dried out and turned more abrasive. He finished 16.6 seconds clear and rounded off the weekend with the fastest time on the closing Power Stage.
A costly puncture for Evans
Evans and Scott Martin also benefited from the rain at the start of the event, which took the sting out of the road-sweeping disadvantage they have carried on recent gravel rallies. After holding off Sébastien Ogier for second place on Saturday evening, Evans opened the final day with a stage win and led the Super Sunday standings until he stopped to change a tyre on the penultimate stage, losing two minutes and dropping to fifth overall.
He salvaged what he could with second on the Power Stage, half a second behind Solberg and a tenth ahead of Sami Pajari. Pajari’s run of three successive maiden victories ended in Chile, but fourth place alongside Marko Salminen kept his title bid healthy.
“It was very costly in terms of points but we took what we could from the Power Stage and we just have to keep pushing in what’s now a full three-way fight in the championship,” Evans said.
Records for Ogier
Ogier and Vincent Landais recovered from sixth place after Friday’s opening stage to finish second overall and top the Super Sunday classification by 3.8s from Solberg. The weekend marked Ogier’s 213th WRC start, equalling the all-time record held by his team principal Jari-Matti Latvala, and his 120th podium finish, matching Sébastien Loeb’s tally.
Takamoto Katsuta got stuck on the edge of the road on Friday’s first stage, restarted on Saturday and set top-six times while running first on the road with stand-in co-driver James Fulton.
What it means for the title fight
Evans leads the drivers’ standings on 230 points, 17 clear of Pajari on 213 and 21 ahead of Solberg on 209. Ogier is fourth on 171 and Katsuta sixth on 163. In the manufacturers’ table Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT finished on 614 points ahead of Hyundai Shell Mobis on 410, with Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT2 third on 227 and M-Sport Ford fourth on 152.
Facts: Rally Chile 2026 top five
- 1. Oliver Solberg / Elliott Edmondson (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) – 2h57m08.2s
- 2. Sébastien Ogier / Vincent Landais (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) – +16.6s
- 3. Adrien Fourmaux / Alexandre Coria (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) – +33.3s
- 4. Sami Pajari / Marko Salminen (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) – +1m33.9s
- 5. Elfyn Evans / Scott Martin (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) – +2m22.3s
The championship continues at Rally Italia Sardegna on 1–4 October, an event returning to an autumn date for the first time since 2020.
Source: newsroom.toyota.eu