Four-time World Rally Championship title-winner Juha Kankkunen will drive a hydrogen-powered Toyota Yaris at the Ypres Rally Belgium next week.

This will be the public debut of the newly developed GR Yaris H2, with the Finn tackling one stage on each competition day at the rally that takes place from the 18th to 21st August.

Kankkunen, who won the last of his titles in 1993 with co-driver Nicky Grist for Toyota, will debut the Yaris as a test car and precede the field on the stages it decides to tackle.

However this isn’t the first time Toyota has experimented with hydrogen fuel, with the Japanese manufacturer having been a key player in taking said type of car to the race track.

The powertrain in this Yaris was developed in the GR Corolla H2, which this year was raced at the Fuji 24 Hours in June.