Solberg steps up as Toyota confirms five-car 2026 line-up with the Swede stepping up to a full-time seat alongside Elfyn Evans, Sébastien Ogier, Takamoto Katsuta and Sami Pajari.
He sensationally won Rally Estonia outright on his GR Yaris Rally1 debut in July, his first full campaign at the sport’s top level with co-driver Elliott Edmondson.
It also means the 2025 manufacturers’ champions will again boast a blend of youth and experience as they chase more titles in 2026.
Evans and co-driver Scott Martin will continue for a seventh successive season with the Japanese marque while Ogier will return for another partial programme alongside Vincent Landais, contesting more than half of next season’s rallies as he pursues further victories and supports the team’s title push.
Katsuta, the first graduate of the TGR WRC Challenge Program, will seek to build on a breakthrough 2025 that included podiums in Sweden and Finland, while Pajari heads into his second full Rally1 season after a promising rookie year capped by a maiden top-three finish on FORUM8 Rally Japan last weekend.
