This Friday, after five specials, the Finn Kalle Rovanperä is at the top of the general ranking of the WRC Rally of Finland, in front of the Frenchman Adrien Fourmaux. Sébastien Ogier, meanwhile, is seventh.
Kalle Rovanperä as a patron. This Friday, after five specials, the Finnish held first place in the general classification of the WRC rally in Finland. Author of the Scratch Time of ES3 then of ES4, Rovanperä notably launched, in remarks relayed by
The team : “I want this weekend. The pilot is only ahead of 4 »4 the French Adrien Fourmaux, very fit and above all very regular.
The northerner, who had finished on the podium of this same rally last year, was necessarily satisfied with his performance, midday, driving his Hyundai: “An incredible morning. The specials are beautiful, I am super happy with our pace and the balance of the car. It’s a great fight with Kalle. In third place, we find another Finn, in the person of Sami Pajari. The latter distinguished himself by winning, in particular, no less than two specials, and more specifically the second and then the fifth. The hope of the Toyota stable is only 0 »1 of Fourmaux.
Ogier stays in the blow
Respectively fourth and fifth, the Japanese Takamoto Katsuta and the Belgian Thierry Neuville are also in contact. The other French engaged, Sébastien Ogier occupies seventh place, less than ten seconds from the leader of this event counting for the world specialty championship, just behind Elfyn Evans, sixth. Ogier, an octuple world champion in the specialty, said in particular, at the end of the ES5: “It could have been a little better but it is so tight that each hesitation at the wheel costs expensive. We will try to do better this afternoon. »»
This day smiled much less in the Estonian Ott Tänak, who occupies first place in the ranking of the World Pilot Championship, since his victory in Estonia, in mid-July. The Hyundai pilot, who started before Ogier but also Evans, is only eighth, with a delay of 16 “1 on Rovanperä.
