Toyota Yaris AP4 Rally Car Driven By Harry Bates – Video

EMERGING star Harry Bates will arm himself with a new international-specification Toyota Yaris AP4 car in a quest to walk away from Kennards Hire Rally Australia in November as the 2017 – and youngest – Australian Rally Champion.

The 224 kiloWatt, all-wheel drive Yaris is being built in Canberra at Neal Bates Motorsport, the workshop of his four-time champion father, and the 22-year-old says it will be faster than anything he’s raced before.

The Bates Yaris is the same production-based model, but of a less powerful specification, as the official Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally cars that will be driven in the World Rally Championship round at Rally Australia by Jari-Matti Latvala, Juho Hänninen and Esapekka Lappi.