With a huge time at the end of PS2, Esapekka Lappi / Janne Ferm took the lead of the Swedish Rally WRC.
The Toyota crew was rather surprised at the time set at the finish line of “Kamsjön 1” (27.81km), a performance that allowed them to take the lead by 1 “against team mates Kalle Rovanperä / Jonne Halttunen.
Oliver Solberg / Elliott Edmondson also remains on the podium at the wheel of the Hyundai i20 N with a 2 “9 margin from the leaders, while their teammates Ott Tänak / Martin Järveoja drop fourth with an overall delay of 3” 9 from the best.
However, the general classification is still to be drawn up because after a few km there was an accident with Craig Breen / Paul Nagle as protagonists. The M-Sport drivers got out of their Ford Puma unscathed, but it got stuck on a snowdrift causing the red flag to be displayed.
This stopped the race of Thierry Neuville / Martijn Wydaeghe, Takamoto Katsuta / Aaron Johnston and Gus Greensmith / Jonas Andersson, who were already on the course with their respective Hyundai, Toyota and Ford.
This will entail the assignment of a timed time “ex officio” by the race direction, so for the moment it will be necessary to wait a little longer to have a definitive ranking.
Among other things, for Neuville / Wydaeghe there had already been problems with the battery and an error that had made the Belgian duo lose ground.
In the meantime we can however say that Elfyn Evans / Scott Martin got fifth place on their Toyota at the end of the section, followed by the Ford of Adrien Fourmaux / Alexandre Coria, very far from the best and intent on trying not to take risks to improve slowly. their guide.
Finally, among the WRC2 Rally2 cars, Nikolay Gryazin / Konstantin Aleksandrov took the Toksport WRT Škoda Fabia Rally2 Evo to the command and to the absolute Top10, overtaking the Ford Fiesta of Jari Huttunen / Mikko Lukka (M-Sport).
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