{"id":821186,"date":"2026-08-21T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821186\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:48:11","slug":"ott-tanak-and-martin-jarveoja-return-to-competition-in-the-united-states-with-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821186\/","title":{"rendered":"Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja return to competition in the United States with Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tanak-toyota-usa.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Ott T\u00e4nak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja return to competition in the United States with Toyota\"\/><br \/>\n\u00a9 DPPI                <\/p>\n<p>    Amid rumors of their return to the WRC next season, Ott Tanak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja will officially be entered by Toyota on September 18 and 19 at the Overmountain Rally Tennessee.                                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block wp-block-paragraph\">While it&#8217;s still difficult to know for sure whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/pilot\/rally\/I%27m-sorry\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"87\" title=\"Ott T\u00e4nak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ott T\u00e4nak<\/a> and Martin J\u00e4rveoja will return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/news\/wrc\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"wrc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WRC<\/a> next season, their activity in recent months suggests that something is in the works, especially since the Estonian driver, the 2019 World Champion, is officially participating in development sessions for the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/news\/stable\/toyota\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"108\" title=\"Toyota\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toyota<\/a> WRC27. This Friday, August 21st, Toyota Gazoo Racing confirmed that T\u00e4nak and J\u00e4rveoja will return to competition by participating in the Overmountain Rally Tennessee (September 18th and 19th) in the United States, driving the Toyota GR Corolla Rally2 entered in the ARA championship and complying with local regulations. The pair hadn&#8217;t competed since the 2025 Saudi Arabia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/news\/rally\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"52\" title=\"Rally\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rally<\/a> , although they were also seen at the Rally di Roma Capitale at the beginning of July, in a demonstration crew role.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block wp-block-paragraph\">The crew will be joined by Seth Quintero and Topi Luhtinen, who will be at the controls of the team&#8217;s main vehicle. According to the press release, &#8220;The participation of the Estonian crew is part of their ongoing testing and will allow the team to acquire valuable information on local tracks, in a region being considered to host a future WRC event in the United States.&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cross-article__title\">\n        This article might interest you    <\/p>\n<p>            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ogier-rally-safari-3.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"S\u00e9bastien Ogier before the Rally of Paraguay: &quot;We will do our best to win it again&quot;\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 DPPI Amid rumors of their return to the WRC next season, Ott Tanak and Martin J\u00e4rveoja will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-821186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}