Toyota Celica Gt Four Cheat

Toyota Team Europe had been campaigning the Celica GT. Toyota also made road-going versions of each GT Four generation in order to conform with World Rally Championship homologation standards. The ST205 Celica GT-Four in particular was the final, and.

There are a lot of legendary standouts in the history of racing and cheating, but the one I'd like to geek out with you over today is the Toyota Team Europe Turbo Celica cheat of 1995. Watch Hemmings videos without ads here. But in the long, dramatic timeline of the World Rally Championship (WRC), few scandals have burned as brightly, or as brilliantly, as the legend of Toyota Team Europe's turbo restrictor bypass cheat that used on the ST205 Celica GT.

Off-Road Legends from HotCars explores the highest highs and lowest lows of Toyota's infamous WRC cheat in the Celica GT. The Toyota Celica GT-Four is best remembered as the car at the center of motorsport's greatest cheating scandal. But that legacy has overshadowed its brilliant suspension innovation, and how those innovations actually backfired when Toyota took the car racing.

But in 1995, it was discovered that the Toyota Team Europe (TTE) Celica GT-Four was running one of the most innovative cheating devices ever seen by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and TTE was subsequently banned for the remainder of the 1995 season and the entire 1996 season. NAME: Toyota Celica GT-Four Rally Car PICTURES: (this is not to be confused with the road car suggestion linked here) ah yes, the infamous turbo cheat car now the car wasn't particularly successful in the 1994 WRC season, so I won't really be going over that, but the turbo cheat in 1995 is definitely the spotlight here now the rivalry and competition between Toyota and Subaru was tight, as. They had a pretty decent car, a Celica GT-Four.

The GT-4 was a car that had got them through about six years of racing, and was winning more races every year. They had won the manufacturer's championship and driver's championship every year since 1990. For a world-wide company like Toyota, this translated in to MAJOR sales for the Celica.

October, 1995. To keep its ageing Celica GT-Four competitive, Toyota tricked the WRC with a clever - and massively illegal - restrictor plate. While its discovery saw Toyota disqualified as a manufacturer from the WRC until 1997, the part earned high praise from FIA President, Max Mosley.

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