Drive to Revive Ep3: How NOT to drive a GR Yaris

Ashley Oldfield

7 Dec 2022

In 2022, we were tasked with turning a Toyota GR Yaris into a race car and then competing in it as part of the national racing series. Find out how our in-house race ace Ash Oldfield coped in our Drive to Revive series.

Welcome back to the third episode of our Toyota GR Yaris race series. In this episode, we cover rounds 2 and 3 of the series as it heads to Zwartkops in Pretoria and Aldo Scribante in Gqeberha.

Things start to go wrong as tempers flare on track between a few of the drivers, barriers are tested as talent levels reach a tipping point and a new winner emerges in the series.

It’s a stark reminder that racing a car in any form can end abruptly if you don’t pay full attention or make even the slightest error of judgement.

How does our Stig that talks, Ash, come out after the 2 rounds? He gives us insight into how it all went down in the latest instalment of Drive to Revive.

Drive to Revive Ep2 – We Race in the World’s first GR Yaris Cup

Drive to Revive Ep1: The start of the Toyota GR Yaris Cup

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Ashley Oldfield

Ashley Oldfield

Ashley has been riding or driving some sort of motorised vehicle since his 4th birthday when he got a Yamaha PW50. Equipped with years of racing experience, Ashley took up journalism and became a writer for some of South Africa’s best motoring magazines and online publications. He is SA’s first (and only) GT Academy winner having raced professionally overseas. He now serves as the Content Manager at Cars.co.za, putting his wealth of racing and driving experience to good use.

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