// 2021 season

TEAM & DRIVER

WRC CHALLENGE PROGRAM 2021 TEAM & DRIVER

DRIVER

  • Takamoto Katsuta

    Takamoto Katsuta

    Driver

    Born in Aichi, Japan on March 17, 1993. Katsuta drove in his first kart race at the age of 11 and at age 18 he won the Formula Challenge Japan (FCJ). He placed second in the F3 series at age 20, and since 2014 he has competed in F3 in addition to notching his first JN5 class win in the eighth round of the Japanese Rally Championship. In the seventh round of the 2017 FIA World Rally Championship (Italy), he took his first podium by finishing third in the WRC2 class. In 2018 he won Rally Sweden, the second round of World Rally Championship in the WRC2 class. In 2019 he won WRC2 on Rally Chile, and he claimed two wins in the Finnish Rally Championship before starting his first WRC events in a Toyota Yaris WRC in Germany and Spain. In 2020 he competed in five WRC events, and won the season-ending Power Stage at Rally Monza.

  • Daniel Barritt

    Daniel Barritt

    Co-Driver

TEAM

  • Jari-Matti Latvala (Supervisor)
    Jari-Matti Latvala Supervisor
  • Kaj Lindström (Program Management)
    Kaj Lindström Program Management
  • Juho Hänninen (Instructor)
    Juho Hänninen Instructor