World Rally Championship leader Jari-Matti Latvala says changes he made to Toyota within days of arriving from Volkswagen made his Rally Sweden win possible. The WRC service park's expectations for the new Tommi Makinen-run Toyota programme were low prior to the start of the 2017 season, but Latvala took the Yaris to second in Monte Carlo before winning in Sweden. That result was Toyota's first WRC win since Rally China in 1999, the final year of its last works effort. VW refugee Latvala joined Toyota in the first week of December 2016, just as it was finalising its homologation specification for key parts. "If I had come to the team two weeks later then I wouldn't be winning,"...
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