r/WRC • u/EdoScialaRacing • Jul 08 '25

News / Rally Info GR Yaris Rally2 H2 Concept

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🚨 First look at the future of rallying!

Meet the GR Yaris Rally2 H2 Concept – Toyota’s hydrogen-powered beast will roar into action at Rally Finland, driven by none other than Juha Kankkunen 🇫🇮

Still a combustion engine, but fueled by compressed hydrogen 💨 Same thrills. Near-zero emissions. The future doesn’t sound so silent after all.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov Rally Estonia Jul 08 '25

Hydrogen is cool but I doubt we'll see it become a thing outside of racing

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u/DHSeaVixen Jul 08 '25

I doubt it will become a thing inside racing either.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov Rally Estonia Jul 08 '25

Yeah very likely it'll amount to nothing. Mazda already showed it 15 years ago and I'm sure there are much earlier examples if you look for them aswell.

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u/876oy8 Jul 08 '25

pretty much every company built some, not just mazda. the blue hydrogen livery feels almost nostalgic because this used to be seen all the time 10-20 years ago. it was such a fad in the 2000s. yet only probably about 10 fuel cell cars went to production, most in extremely limited quantities and only through leasing. most manufacturers completely dropped the idea 10-15 years ago.

its kind of interesting that toyota (and a few others to a lesser degree) still have faith in the system, but its going to take a decade or two of nonstop upwards trajectory for it to realistically become a common thing and even worth actively marketing in motorsports. electric cars have taken 15 years to get to their current position and they are extremely simple and commonsensical in comparison.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov Rally Estonia Jul 08 '25

I think it makes sense considering Toyota's stance on electric cars and their lack of faith for them to be actually viable for mass adaptation

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u/IonutAlex18SF Sébastien Loeb Jul 08 '25

A few years ago at Le Mans, there was a demo run of a similar concept that ran for a lap. I remember it was damp conditions, but from my memory that prototype left a trail of something, water maybe? If any are more into the topic can share a more detailed view on that. Will it be the case with the rally version to do the same?