Toyota returned to the World Rally Championship winners' circle for the first time since 1999 on Sunday, as Jari-Matti Latvala won Rally Sweden.

In just the team's second rally since returning to the sport after a 17-year hiatus, Latvala and his co-driver, fellow Finn Miikka Anttila, negotiated the snow-bound Swedish forests to beat Ott Tanak and his Ford Fiesta by 29.2 seconds, giving the lead Toyota driver a four-point gap in the drivers' championship standings.

"It's amazing. A new team, a new car, our second rally and we're winning. I have no words to describe it, I'm so emotional. We're at a good level but now we go forward and it gets more difficult," the 17-time WRC winner told wrc.com.