Earlier this month Toyota entered its hydrogen-powered GR Yaris concept in a special demonstration run during the ninth round of the World Rally Championship (WRC) in Ypres, Belgium. Now this little car Is running a 3 cylinder turbo engine that runs on pure hydrogen. And with this latest test run is the first time Toyota has taken an “under-development hydrogen-engine vehicle” on public roads outside of Japan. On the second day of the Ypres Rally, Toyota President and CEO Akio Toyodagot behind the wheel of the hydrogen-powered GR Yaris concept for Special Stage 11.

On this special stage Toyoda was accompanied by Four-time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen. And after the race in when Toyoda spoke to media he said “We were able to let WRC fans hear the exhaust sound of a hydrogen engine,” “Motorsport is really a sport. I believe people get excited because sports stimulate our five senses, and that’s why I want to keep the engine's vibration and exhaust sound in motorsports.
“While we are trying to achieve carbon neutrality, we still want to keep the excitement.’’

Now this isn’t the first race the H2 has been enter into. Sort of. This corolla sport which feutures the same powerplant competed in the 2022 Fuji Super 24 Hours race and it completed 478 laps at the event. Now at this event Toyota managed to beat there own time from last year. So this year on the one-year anniversary of the car’s debut. Sasaki turned in a lap of 1’58.867 during the first leg of qualifying, which was over five seconds faster than the car’s best race lap in 2021
Which shows how much progress Toyota has made with this technology in only the last year.

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