Geel, January 31 2025

Unfortunately, we have to put all our plans for the 2025 rally season “on hold.” The repair of the GT86 CS R3 is taking much longer than expected due to exceptionally long delivery times for parts, and more recently, a personal accident involving our driver has added to the challenges.

We want to emphasize that the personal accident is unrelated to rally activities, but the necessary physical rehabilitation makes it impossible to plan anything at this moment.

While the team will almost certainly remain inactive during the first half of 2025, we are eagerly looking for opportunities to regain momentum after the summer. At the same time, we will use this unexpected downtime to further optimize the Toyota and significantly improve our service infrastructure.

Sometimes unexpected situations bring new opportunities, and this is a chance to elevate both our car and our organization to a higher level. With great enthusiasm and a healthy dose of confidence, we are looking forward to 2026, aiming to return to the starting line stronger than ever.

We also want to emphasize that the winter activities of the R-Box Academy will continue as planned.

The R-Box Rally Team sincerely thanks its supporters and partners, and we will certainly keep you updated on our progress and future plans.

The first real test for our GT86 and one that counts. We have always had a preference for the Maas gravel in and around Bocholt, but this edition the weather gods had made it extra challenging. All the ingredients were there to make it an exciting rally. New car, new co, changing weather conditions and above all a lot of enthusiasm.

Photos: Frank Photographics, Rally_art Photography, Ronny Vandezande, Kevin Opsomer

With the switch to the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT86 CS-R3, the team is confidently ready for the new 2024 season. The whole team has worked extremely hard over the past few months to prepare for the debut year for the Toyota. We opted for a varied and challenging programme full of novelties, this time with an international touch.

We would have liked to have seen it differently, but we are forced to postpone the debut with the Toyota GT86 CS-R3. Is that the result of corona or the war in Ukraine, we don’t know. The fact is that a number of crucial parts are lagging behind and we do not yet have an accurate view of new delivery times. Pinning ourselves down on new data makes little sense.

Although the GT86 saw the light of day in 2016, it still has 0 kilometers on the odometer and has never seen a rally test up close. Nevertheless, we are working on all kinds of updates, so that the car is fully compliant with the latest spec as provided at the time by TMG, the current Toyota Gazoo Racing.

For example, it got a brand new power source from their workshops in Cologne, with the latest updates. The startup and run-in is planned for one of the next weeks and will be done by an engine engineer from Gazoo.