Despite the difficulty of being the first to take to the road, Kalle Rovanperä / Jonne Halttunen set the fastest time at the end of PS3 “Sävar 1” (17.28km) taking the lead of the Swedish Rally WRC.
The Toyota duo now have a 10 “4 lead over Oliver Solberg / Elliott Edmondson’s Hyundai i20 N, who earn one place as well as Elfyn Evans / Scott Martin in the second Toyota GR Yaris, third at 0” 8 from the spot. .
This is because both Esapekka Lappi / Janne Ferm and Ott Tänak / Martin Järveoja were not brilliant on the route. The Toyota duo did not go beyond the eighth time and have now dropped to sixth in the standings, one position behind that of Hyundai, which made a mistake by losing a lot of time.
In the meantime, the times assigned by the office to the three crews who in PS2 had been blocked by the red flag exposed for the KO of Craig Breen have arrived.
Thierry Neuville / Martijn Wydaeghe are now fourth at 1 “from the podium in the general classification, good at taking their Hyundai to the finish line with the 2nd time despite some electrical problems that they will try to solve during the stop in service.
Takamoto Katsuta / Aaron Johnston are instead in seventh place in the overall standings with their GR Yaris, followed by the Ford Puma of Gus Greensmith / Jonas Andersson and Adrien Fourmaux / Alexandre Coria (M-Sport).
Ole Christian Veiby / Stig Rune Skjærmoen return to the absolute Top10, driving the WRC2 Class in the Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 in front of the Ford Fiesta of Jari Huttunen / Mikko Lukka (M-Sport) and Nikolay Gryazin / Konstantin Aleksandrov with the Škoda Fabia Rally2 Evo from Toksport WRT.
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