Championship Leader Rolls Out of Ypres Rally Belgium 💥
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
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Home hero produces plucky comeback drive as championship leader Rovanperä rolls out.
Thierry Neuville produced a plucky comeback drive to head up a Hyundai Motorsport 1-2 on Friday afternoon at Ypres Rally Belgium.
Just 2.5sec separated Neuville and team-mate Ott Tänak at the end of a frenetic opening leg on treacherous asphalt lanes in the Flanders region of northern Belgium.
Neuville’s day got off to a wobbly start when he dropped more than 10 seconds with a costly overshoot in the first stage and the situation showed signs of worsening as he fought with car set-up throughout the morning.
The Belgian driver complained the differential settings on his i20 N were causing the brakes to lock up under braking, and he trailed Elfyn Evans by 8.8sec in third overall at the mid-leg halt.
After making several set-up tweaks, Neuville emerged from service a brand-new man. With newfound confidence in the car, he and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe stormed to fastest times on all four of the afternoon’s speed tests - leapfrogging Tänak and Evans in the process.
"It's been a whole different afternoon in terms of the handling with the car,” Neuville explained. “I am so much happier now.
“I feel like I have seen some areas where we can improve and find a bit more speed, but overall we can be very happy with our afternoon.
“Our weather team has done an amazing job with some very precise information and I have felt confident to trust their predictions. That's very important on a day like this," he added.
Aside from a few set-up niggles of his own, Tänak’s day went without drama. He never strayed outside the top three stage times all day and held the runner-up spot from the second test onwards.
The same couldn’t be said for Toyota star Evans, who led for most of the leg after team-mate and championship leader Kalle Rovanperä rolled into retirement on SS2.
He was forced to bolt a single wet weather tyre onto his Yaris after damaging one of his slicks on SS6. Reduced performance on the dry roads allowed Neuville into the lead and a 10sec time penalty for a late check-in compounded his frustrations.
“We lost one of our slick tyres and had to use a rain tyre, which was obviously not ideal in these conditions,” he explained. “The penalty was no big issue - just a minor error - but one in four years is not bad.”
Tyre choice was a key talking point for the second loop. Dark clouds threatened downpours - but heavy rain never arrived.
While the leading trio carried packages more suited to dry conditions, the rest of the field dropped time with combinations taken in the hope of wet weather.
Espekka Lappi joked he was “leading the class for the wrong tyres” and brought his Yaris home 23.6sec back from the podium. He had 18.8sec in hand over M-Sport Ford man Craig Breen, who held fifth overall despite an overshoot early in the day.
Breen’s Puma colleague Gus Greensmith ended more than half a minute back in sixth ahead of Oliver Solberg, who battled gearbox niggles on his Hyundai.
Saturday's leg is extremely compact and squeezes eight more treacherous tests covering 135.83km into a 269.05km route.
Leading positions after Friday:
1. T Neuville / M Wydaeghe BEL Hyundai i20 N 49min 50.1sec
2. O Tänak / M Järveoja EST Hyundai i20 N +2.5sec
3. E Evans / S Martin GBR Toyota GR Yaris +13.7sec
4. E Lappi / J Ferm FIN Toyota GR Yaris +37.3sec
5. C Breen / P Nagle IRL Ford Puma +56.1sec
6. G Greensmith / J Andersson GBR Ford Puma +1min 34.5sec
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I'm glad that Kalle and his co-driver are OK. This was a scary crash
Why Jonne Haltunen(Co Driver Kalle Rovanpera), shouting to man ?
@@adriankasprzyk5364 because they didnt give them a start time then they told them to just go but then they got told not to go on the radio. Basically a massive mess up
Great quality video with no music added. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
This is a crazy and unpredictable rally, nobody knows who will win. You can see the nervous pressure on the faces of the drivers.
0:38 "Listen to the note", says Halttunen to Kalle. Rovanperä was kinda off that day, his driving looked like he was bound to crash.
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It's really really crazy, the feeling this rally gives is full of no breathing sections... Rally YPRES... It's indeed an predictable... Go Ott TÄNAK.
Yaris is taking over, I don't know how I feel about that
0:23 what happened at this time??
The ford puma is just too fat and big, the toyota is agile and has great suspension, but in a straight line the hyundai is simply faster. If hyundai wants championship points it needs to focus in road rallyes. I am a toyota fan but from the beginning I knew Ott or Thierry would win this rally
Totally Toyota Yaris R1 based on a Small & Compact car, same with Hyundai BUT Ford decided an SUV would be better Why they couldnt have stayed with a Tried & Trusted Fiesta is beyond me
You Right but…..GUS Greensmith,Pierre Louis Loubet,Adrien Fourmaux aren’t top Class drivers…. Craig Breen is better but not good enough For the best driver in team…..M Sport Ford need drivers like Tanak,Neuville,Evans….
The handling car is the most important…if car has terrible handling the car is…terrible.
All the rally 1 cars are similar in size. It is still a fiesta with puma front and rear fascias.
"the unthinkable happened!"
Well, it is rally.
Lappi proving he is better than Craig Breen.
He didn't get a dose of Understeer he turned in too early and then over corrected .
As a local this is bad publicity but the marshalls messed up and got something wrong with the check in times or something like that. They got visibly mad and the concentration was probably gone. The stage was delayed and started 4 minutes late. Then he crashed i don't think it's his fault and he didn't even mentioned or blamed the delays for his crash. Which in my opinion is clearly the fault.
Kalle himself said that crash was due to understeer and too fast pace note for that corner. Delayed start annoyed him and co-driver. But the crash happened circa 10 kilometres into the stage when, in the words of Kalle himself, start delays are already forgotten.
Ford and Hyundai fans are ecstatic now damn Kalle why oh why
I wish it wasn't spoiled in the title
If this spoiled things for you then you are not a fan.
@@iare19 I'm in the US and can't see it until tonight
@@Scoots1994 Yeah same here. I don’t subscribe anymore because of this issue. Not out of spite but just to avoid spoilers popping up.
when stupid superrally will be eliminated and race will be more than 500km then maybe we'll see less extreme incidents and more tactics ,not formula 1 races