After the PS9 was canceled a few days ago, due to the presence of reindeer on the course, the Rally of Sweden resumed with the PS10, the Langed 1, timed 19.49 km on a fast road in the woods.
After regaining the leadership of the race in the previous round, Kalle Rovanpera seems to have taken a liking to it and set the best time in 8’51 “6, winning it by just one tenth against Ott Tanak’s Hyundai, which restarted today with nothing to lose later. being stopped yesterday by a hybrid problem.
Toyota has now made a 1-2 at the top of the standings, because in second place Elfyn Evans, author of the third time at 2 “6. The Briton is now four seconds behind his teammate and has ousted for just one-tenth Thierry Neuville, shown on television images with a damaged rear bumper.
Incidentally, the Belgian Hyundai driver was also pinched at 192 km / h, a truly impressive speed when you think they are racing on snow. For him the gap at the end of the test was 3 “4 and therefore the gap in the general is 4” 1.
Instead, that of the other Toyota of Esapekka Lappi rises to 8 “, the protagonist of a truly spectacular cross, with which he also went to” kiss “the snow bank with the rear, damaging the rear fascia of his Yaris.
From the fifth on, however, the feeling is that they are now cut off from the fight for the final victory, except of course sensational twists. After holding up quite well yesterday, Oliver Solberg was 12 “late also in this PS10 and now travels 44” 3 from the top, while still keeping just under forty seconds in the Toyota of Takamoto Katsuta, author of the sixth time.
The Fords are always out of the game: you have to scroll through the classification of the special up to seventh place to find the best Puma, which is that of Craig Breen. The Briton, who returned to the race today, paid 8 “9, admitting, however, that he had not exaggerated in the fastest part of the special.
The WRC2 class race was also very tight, in which there was a change of guard at the top. Now he’s in command is Ole Christian Veiby’s Volkswagen, which jumped in front of Andreas Mikkelsen’s Skoda by just eight tenths of a second.
WRC 2022, Swedish Rally: ranking after PS10 (top 10)
Pos | Pilot / Navigator | Car | Time / Gap |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rovanpera / Halttunen | Toyota | 1.17’50 “ |
2 | Evans / Martin | Toyota | +4 “0 |
3 | Neuville / Wydaeghe | Hyundai | +4 “1 |
4 | Lappi / Ferm | Toyota | +8 “8 |
5 | Solberg / Edmondson | Hyundai | +44 “3 |
6 | Katsuta / Johnston | Toyota | + 1’22 “4 |
7 | Fourmaux / Coria | Ford | + 1’58 “8 |
8 | Greensmith / Andersson | Ford | + 2’09 “7 |
9 | Veiby / Skjaermoen | Volkswagen | + 4’00 “2 |
10 | Mikkelsen / Eriksen | Skoda | + 4’01 “0 |
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