The FIRST Toyota Yaris Rally2 in the UK launch PLUS walkaround with ex-WRC co-driver Nicky Grist

Join us at the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club for the launch of the Melvyn Evans Motorsport Castrol Rally Team ahead of the 2024 British Rally Championship.
Ex Colin McRae co-driver Nicky Grist takes us through the day for the launch of the first ever Toyota Yaris Rally2 / R5 car in the UK, ahead of the BRC 2024 season.
The iconic Toyota Castrol livery from the 1990's has been replicated on the brand new Toyota GR Yaris Rally2, taking inspiration from Juha Kankkunen & Nicky Grist's Toyota Celica ST185.
We're proud to support the team with custom P1 Racewear & Stilo Helmets for the 2024 BRC.
Good luck to Chris Ingram & Meirion Evans ahead of the first round of the British Rally Championship this weekend at the North West Stages Rally.
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[@shamil808]

It looks so good in the Castrol colours. Still prefer the Celica, though. 👀

[@nickygristmotorsports]

We agree, it looks ace doesn't it! 😍 The Celica will always have our hearts ❤

[@joelfernando1]

Honestly there's not a single rally car i don't like. Well... maybe the Citroen BX... Heck! I love them all!!@@nickygristmotorsports

[@aaronbryan5095]

Well, Toyota seems to have been heavily hinting that they are going to make a new gen Celica GT-FOUR 👀

[@davidfitzsimon5962]

That ST185 will always be my favourite rally car.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

It really is a thing of beauty

[@dandare2829]

I grew up with the Celica, still a good looking car, never seems to age and the Rally Drivers of the time had phenomenal car control.

[@DavidMBanes]

I tarmac rallied an ST195 GrpA in Australia, awesome cars. Google 'david banes celica gt4'

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Thanks for your kind words. It really is some car.

[@nathanielcruz6675]

The Castrol livery fits the Yaris perfectly, but the Celica (ST185) will always be a legendary fan favorite in the Group A era.

[@noosnow]

I'm really happy to see you standing next to the toyota rally cars with castrol colors! Celica always gives me chills. I wish these guys to do well with their brand new car.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Thanks for the kind words

[@jack4688]

It’s great to see this much buzz around the BRC once again, can’t wait to see Meirion in the Yaris in a few weeks on the Severn Valley Rally 🤘🏻

[@rstking123]

I was spectating rally Sweden last month and got to see the Yaris in action, it's really impressive and good looking! It's great to have another manufacturer along to produce WRC2 cars. That rear wing is an absolute masterpiece of motorsport design!

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Great to hear this. We couldn't agree more! Excited to see this in action in the 2024 BRC season.

[@BOABModels]

Love how it looks in the Castrol livery! I will forever associate those colours with Toyotas

[@s4awd2]

Great to see the production based 1.6L 3 cylinder motor put to good use in WRC

[@PromVatanapradit]

This is so much more interesting than WRC 1 cars that are unobtanium.

[@SmallBlogV8]

Those twisting rear wing supports are a beautiful bit of carbon work. The retro livery also fits really well!

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Couldn't agree more!

[@marrs1013]

For me the main difference between the two cars is that the ST185 showed how far we came since car ownership became a thing, and the potential and exciting future we have ahead; and the WRC2 car is actually that future. I don't think petrol cars can be tweeked much further. The future is now.

[@RoLexX57]

Great to see the castrol livery again! 🔥 and great commentary from nicky! Greetz from carinthia austria 🔥

[@MiniOne82]

A Toyota in Castrol colours again? awesome

[@nickygristmotorsports]

My thoughts exactly!

[@siviunative5241]

Nicky Grist knows his rally stuff. This Yaris WRC2 must be good then.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

It's a weapon! Are you looking forward to seeing it on the stages?

[@PromVatanapradit]

I miss my ‘93 All Trac (made for US Celica GT-Four) 😢

[@padraigbutler6968]

two stunning cars Celica was one class car in its time and has age very well i think , i say their sum different in price .!!

[@user-oy4sm3lj2l]

Yaris meeting Grand Dad

[@nickygristmotorsports]

❤

[@v9photoworks700]

So tempted to get this iconic livery on my GR Yaris.

[@bla855]

Give them all the fancy new machinery it won't matter because there is a west cork man coming 😉..and he is unstoppable 🇮🇪

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Keith was unlucky this weekend. Looking forward to seeing him on the future rounds.

[@howardg186]

Great first look. Thank you Nicky 👍🏼😀

[@nickygristmotorsports]

You're more than welcome, thanks very much for your support.

[@AlessandroGiraldi-uv7gy]

La Celica come la Delta saranno immortali, la storia... 💪👏👍😊

[@mrmorizofan7001]

great cars and stories, thanks for the video and good luck for the season 2024 with Toyota GR Rally2!!

[@nickygristmotorsports]

You're more than welcome. Thanks very much!

[@larszenthio1012]

Very nice Castrol-Toyota Yaris Rally2. As an old rally enthusiast and already in the 70s and 80s also an active rally driver in a SAAB 96 V4, I have always thought that Castrol paints and of course their products have always been the best. I still have parts of all the Castrol promotional stuff left in the garage. Everything from unopened various oil cans, clothes, plates, flags to large illuminated signs for the wall.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Wow, that sounds amazing! Castrol all the way!

[@larszenthio1012]

@@nickygristmotorsports It's not just Castrol stuff that takes up space. There are also parts of the main sponsors for SAAB Sport & Rally from the era when Stig Blomqvist & Per Eklund were active SAAB drivers until 1981. SAAB , BOSCH, Dunlop, Clarion, BILSTEIN etc. and several rally related things. 😎👍

[@hyspeed38]

Does it still come with the movable restrictor plate? That was by far the most ingenious intake tech ever seen in a rally car back in the days.

[@8888shooter]

👏👏👌...this Yaris is looking mean!!..and at same time fantastic with this revised Castrol logos!!👍....cannot wait to see this car in full throttle action in the BRC!!!...I am a keen motorsport photographer and this car will make some good photographs!!📸👌..... By the way Nicky, the place you chose " The Rolls of Monmouth" is a beautiful place with fantastic scenery!!!I there ladt Xmas!!... good to see out again!!...nice video and commentary!!!.....!👏👍😁

[@nickygristmotorsports]

The Rolls of Monmouth is my home golf club. I was captain there last year. It really is a beautiful place!

[@8888shooter]

@nickygristmotorsports hi Nicky, thank you very much for taking the time out to reply to me. That is really appreciated . It's really good to see you again doing these videos. Are you going to be at Rallyday XL this year at Castle Combe?....it's going to be a major show this year.....looking forward to seeing your next video soon. Many thanks Paul a keen rally motorsport photographer. 📸😁👍

[@barrysleafer8347]

Will always be the celica for me

[@RT-dw3iz]

Your car looks silly beside the Yaris!? No way! I would say the opposite😉

[@cliveturner4788]

You obviously weren’t listening to what he said……

[@RT-dw3iz]

​@@cliveturner4788I understood what he said perfectly. Thank you.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Celica forever 🤪❤‍🔥

[@delorean8526]

Castrol livery certainly looks good to me. I wonder how it would look sitting next to the old Corolla WRC.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

That would be a great lineup.

[@R3FL3X84]

that rear wing is so nice to look at.

[@AbrahamArthemius]

It's arguably the best looking and also the most complex rear wing design out of all Rally2/R5 cars right now.

[@rallyburnzsimracing8571]

I luv the castrol livery

[@nickygristmotorsports]

We do, too!

[@giovinazzo3gsmotorsport]

ciao awesome morning to all good see both driver and nice Toyota 👍👍👋👋

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Ciao! 🇮🇹

[@antonynkanata1834]

Splendid narration by 4mer WRC star one Nicky Grist. So the R2 have decided 2 go 4 the services of Elyfin Evans younger brother?? May be they have seen a potential in this young dude. Big up.

[@Spicy248]

Great video in my country KENYA

[@michaelanderson2689]

Would love to see a video from the factory, showing how they build them!

[@nickygristmotorsports]

That would be an interesting watch.

[@iwsisteinholz5510]

You need to reach out to Gazoo Racing WRT for that 😊

[@DR-vj3yl]

おぉぉぉ！？？ 見たこと有る顔だと思いきや？？！！ ニッキーグリスト！！！ しかしカストロールカラーが抜群に似合う。

[@lambrosstamos4494]

Will it be only BRC? What about FIA ERC. What exactly are those seats? I haven't seen them before.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

For these guys, they are focusing on BRC for the 2024 season. There are already some GR Yaris Rally2 cars competing in ERC & WRC2 though.

[@chrisleech333]

As much as i like that Yaris. That celica is stunning 😍

[@nickygristmotorsports]

The old and new.

[@ManxAndy]

Top vlog Nicky….iconic colours, makes the car…👍👌🇮🇲🔥

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Thanks Andy!

[@kirby1225]

Love the retro livery. I'm surprised it comes with a 3 cyl and not a 4 cyl.

[@sscottwilsonn]

Well Nicky the Yaris GR is a nice wee car but it’s no patch on the Celica I wish the guys all the very best but hate to say in 30yr time you ask anyone about rallying it’ll still be Subaru’s and Celicas and yourself and Colin ,Juha , Ari Vatanen, Walter, Jimmy Colin’s dad and all the guys from that era it’s the old skool that’s frozen in history it’s ingrained in folklore and in our minds forever all this R1 R2 and so on sadly won’t be remembered imo….. ps liked the wee radio controlled Celica 😂😂🤝👍

[@HJK242]

That's not true, I didn't wasn't old enough in that era so this 2017-today is the best era. Also you can properly watch WRC unlike back then when highlights where all you got, and watching those old cars after these modern ones make them look really slow, those new Subarus have nothing to do with rally anymore

[@sscottwilsonn]

@@HJK242that’s where you’re wrong Subaru in America are more or less all that’s successful in the ARA so they’re very much very much in use in rally maybe not wrc but that’s just because wrc is tamed down now . Also there’s no other driver has made a car manufacturer what they are today Subaru are where they are thanks to Colin and Nicky mostly 🤝👍

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Thanks Scott. The radio controlled Celica is great, isn't it? John who is driving it designed the original Castrol livery which is shown on my Celica.

[@mugenmark]

@@sscottwilsonnWRC is absolutely not tamed down. The cars make 500+ bhp and are faster than the group b monsters. Subaru are practically unheard of outside of the US nowadays and don’t even make anything spicy nowadays whereas Toyota can’t sell enough of the GR branded cars and are dominating motorsport.

[@sscottwilsonn]

@@mugenmark ok it’s not tamed down do some research into how long the stages are now compared to the past and research the routes it’s a lot shorter and a lot smoother because the cars can’t handle the abuse and they may be faster but there’s not as much sideways not as much flamboyance hence why the historic rallies and Roger Albert Clark etc have more interest fact 👍👍

[@Bigdave_t4]

Car looks mint

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Couldn't agree more!

[@tkhayes83]

So awesome, would love to see in action

[@nickygristmotorsports]

It's fierce!

[@thomascraig1517]

Old school rule ! But the new cars light weight with more tec than nasa ! FLY

[@luinpuin4152]

Still love the Celica, Yaris is also cool but I would prefer different rim colors, white, green, red or black. Good to see another wrc2 at the starting!!

[@nickygristmotorsports]

That would be cool!

[@dtrain1634]

WOW!!! 😮 What a car 🚗

[@nickygristmotorsports]

AGREED!

[@stevenwoods5627]

New one looks Awesome. But still prefer the old one, you can't beat going sideways, especially at the Level that you Boys did it.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Old school!

[@peter8084]

This Yaris sounds a hell of a lot better than the road car which sounds like a hairdryer which puts me off it to be honest. It’s a shame the designers did not focus on giving the road car a more aggressive exhaust sound.

[@iwsisteinholz5510]

More likely manufacturer/Designer needed to follow gouvernment restrictions. New cars have to be silent from factory, except you use some exploits, which japanese manufacturers are not known for.

[@peter8084]

@@iwsisteinholz5510 l appreciate that is probably the case but l am sure those clever Toyota engineers could have created an acceptable compromise !

[@iwsisteinholz5510]

@peter8084 as Hyundai, Fiat (Abarth) and some others were able to do it, most likely yes, they could have achieved it. But knowing japanese people, it's most likely also "polite" to not have a loud car from factory 🙄

[@peter8084]

@@iwsisteinholz5510 yes, you’re probably quite correct,but it still lets the road car down in my opinion 🙂.

[@FlyinFinnMotorsportVideos]

Looks great. All the best

[@nickygristmotorsports]

Looking forward to seeing what happens on the first round this weekend.

[@emilk1774]

St205 should have been there also 😅

[@claus-rainerzeuschner6516]

😊moin cool

[@nickygristmotorsports]

☺️

[@Barry.ONeill]

Did Evens build this one or somone else ?

[@nickygristmotorsports]

No, this has come directly from Toyota Gazoo Racing in Finland.

[@steelcityspeedshopj.r6942]

❤

[@toyotagaz]

Okay but is Castrol sponsoring you or are you just providing free advertising?

[@km6832]

Doesnt show engine bay

[@jimmjl]

Looks like my Tamiya TT02 needs another paint job.

[@nickygristmotorsports]

👀

[@jimmjl]

@@nickygristmotorsports kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqCVpoyiqZ11iKcsi=TFVNP8ynsJGQoOvn

[@webbieuk]

Whats the wing ?

[@nickygristmotorsports]

The rear wing is made of Carbon Fibre.

[@webbieuk]

@@nickygristmotorsports I mean what brand ?

[@rzaultra165]

original vs sub4ru tech

[@diaboloseven]

Not really a Rally Car ..Dakar Special taxed n mot. Celica meant you had to drive it and not " computer RC "

[@HJK242]

There is no driving aid systems in WRC

[@nickygristmotorsports]

It's one hell of a car!!

[@ianpurcell7266]

The golf is doing nothing for that waist line.

[@bestcrazyboy8487]

Says the know body, 🙄

[@bla855]

Id have the old st 185 anyday over the yaris

[@Ajandiayni]

Nicky try driving the yaris on stages

[@nickygristmotorsports]

I'll stick to the Celica!!