OTT Tänak (Hyundai) signed the scratch time on Thursday of the first special rally special. The Estonian, currently at the top of the WRC world championship, has ahead of Thierry Neuville and Sébastien Ogier, for the moment 3rd to 1 “5 of the leader.
OTT Tanäk (Hyundai) First leader in the Finland rally. The Estonian took the lead of this ninth round of the WRC World Championship season, this Thursday at the end of the first day special that started with the Shakedown, kidnapped by the Japanese Takamoto Katsuta (Toyota) in front of Sébastien Ogier (Toyota). Thursday at the start of the evening, during this ES1 disputed in the form of a 2.58 kilometers mini-special in the streets of Jyväskylä and alternating portions on asphalt and on Earth, this time Tänak was the fastest.
The current leader of the provisional general classification, with one point ahead of Elfyn Evans and 21 points ahead of Ogier, completed the layout in 2 minutes and 4 seconds. Author of the first scratch time this weekend which will continue on Friday, the 2019 world champion was thus preceding his teammate Thierry Neuville, second in this first special 1 ″ 3 special. Ogier, meanwhile, ranks 3rd and occupies for the moment this same third place in the provisional classification, at 1 ″ 5 of the first leader, while Adrien Fourmaux (Hyundai) occupies 5th place, at 1 ″ 9.
In a hurry to get into serious things
The octuple world champion, third in the world championship 21 points from Tänak, was looking forward to being in a row, and at the same time moved on to serious things. “It’s a rally that you always want to win, even just participate. The roads are magic here, especially when you have the chance to drive with the best team in the world. Driving in rally1 is incredible here. It is really a pleasure to be at the start. Adrien Fourmaux had more difficulty in appreciating, even if the northerner was also aware of tackling a single round, in the same way as this special first of all. “It’s always a complicated special. It’s still a good training, even if it has nothing to do with the other rally specials at all. »»
