Toyota's Takamoto Katsuta is out of the WRC Rally Sweden running after a high-speed roll on Stage 5. Full story ⬇️ RallySweden 🇸🇪
The Japanese driver, competing in his first event as a factory pilot, had been running in fifth position having ended the morning loop by winning Stage 4, before midday service.
The car suffered heavy damage, losing the entire rear wing in addition to damage to the front. Katsuta and co-driver Aaron Johnston were able to reach the stage end but lost 53.4s in the process. Katsuta rushed to source some water to try and repair the radiator but his efforts would come to nothing, as his day came to a premature end.
“Then there was this left hand corner and we saw Thierry Neuville almost go into the bank and Taka came in a bit too fast.“There was quite a lot of damage, the radiator was leaking and he tried to repair it and he did a good job, but unfortunately the cooling package has taken too much of an impact and he had to stop.”
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