While he left to make a full box this Sunday in Paraguay, Sébastien Ogier had to be satisfied with the only victory. Despite contrary circumstances during the “Power Stage”, the Gapençais ensures that continuing his series of podiums satisfied him.
“How can you be so unlucky?” This is how Sébastien Ogier reacted hot after the arrival of the 19th and last special of the Paraguay rally. If he validated his fourth victories in seven races played this season, the ocuple world champion could have done a much better operation. While he was in the running to take the ten bonus points distributed this Sunday, the Toyota driver had to settle for a single unit under the “Super Sunday”. The fault of the rain that was invited on the track shortly before the passage of Sébastien Ogier and his compatriot Adrien Fourmaux, who saw second place escape him on these 18.5 kilometers timed.
“But we continue to win rallies and we are going to win this championship,” said Gapençais in remarks collected by the specialized site Earth fishing. If he appeared disappointed at the time, the tricolor, however, confided in cold being “always happy with this weekend” with “a very good result” and “a lot of positive to draw”. In his eyes, “victory is what matters most”, he who was dominating from the point of view of the rhythm even if he had “the impression of deserving more” shortly after having completed the rally.
Ogier: “The series of podiums continues”
“As a competitor, I couldn’t be happy at the time,” he said. But the podium series continues with a new victory for me this season. Indeed, out of the seven rounds played this season, the Gapençais has always been placed in one of the first three places. Returning to the end of the race linked to the weather, Sébastien Ogier said that “unfortunately, that’s the rally”, unable to do anything against the elements. “This rain intervened five or six minutes too early for Adrien Fourmaux and I,” he regretted. If there had only been a few drops, it would have gone well. But we had no chance with the way it happened. »»
Despite everything, the Gapençais is more than ever in the title race, accusing only nine points behind his teammate Elfyn Evans and he counts on his regularity to seek this ninth crown. “It is the fight for the world title that makes us here, it is now our mission,” he said to conclude. As I said, the series of podiums continues and we have the clear objective to last it until the end of the season and add other victories. In Chile from September 11 to 14, it will be necessary to count on Sébastien Ogier to play the leading roles.
