King of the Asphalt Crowned at Ypres Rally Belgium 👑
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- 📺 Watch extended highlights on Red Bull TV: win.gs/wrc-bel...
Estonian keeps Elfyn Evans at bay to secure second-consecutive WRC win.
Ott Tänak stormed to Ypres Rally Belgium victory on Sunday afternoon to seal back-to-back FIA World Rally Championship wins.
The Estonian driver inherited the top spot late on the penultimate day when Hyundai i20 N team-mate and long-time leader Thierry Neuville understeered off the road and into a ditch, shattering the Belgian’s hopes of a repeat home win.
Tänak - winner of Secto Rally Finland earlier this month - carried an 8.2sec buffer over Elfyn Evans into Sunday’s final leg, which comprised four short and sharp asphalt speed tests in the Flanders region.
Toyota GR Yaris star Evans was not willing to give up without a fight. He flew to fastest times on the two opening stages but was still unable to make any major gains on the leader.
It was a similar story in the afternoon and, despite outpacing his rival by 2.2sec in the finale, the Welshman was unable to overhaul Tänak, who took the spoils by 5.0sec.
Tänak’s success means he now trails championship leader Kalle Rovanperä - who rolled his Yaris out of contention on Friday morning - by 72 points. The 21-year-old Finn salvaged five Wolf Power Stage bonus points and remains on track to become the youngest WRC champion in history with four rounds to go.
The manufacturers’ championship situation remains unchanged, with Tänak’s Hyundai Motorsport squad still 88 points adrift of leaders Toyota Gazoo Racing.
"To win here is a big surprise for us - more or less the same as it was in Finland,” said Tänak. “We didn't expect it from anywhere basically, but somehow we were able to pull it together during the rally.
"It's great to see that some results are coming, but there is so much we can improve and we could still be a lot stronger, so there is still some work to do," he added.
For Evans, it was a case of what could have been. He gave away valuable seconds on Friday when a slow puncture forced him to run a wet weather tyre in dry conditions. He was also lumbered with a 10sec time penalty for arriving late to SS8. Without that, the outcome could have been different.
Esapekka Lappi made it two GR Yaris cars on the podium - securing a lonely third at the end of a trouble-free weekend where a poor tyre choice on Friday was the only real bump in the road.
He trailed Evans by 1min 36.6sec but held a massive 1min 46.9sec advantage over fourth-placed Hyundai youngster Oliver Solberg, who netted a career-best result to banish all memories of his early retirement last time out.
Solberg was initially locked into a tight scrap with M-Sport Ford’s Adrien Fourmaux. However, the Puma driver crashed out in the penultimate stage, enabling those behind to gain a position.
Over two minutes back was Takamoto Katsuta, who continued his consistent run of form to take fifth overall in another Yaris car. Although transmission and hybrid unit faults plagued the Japanese driver, he has now finished inside the top six at every round since Sweden in February.
The rest of the leaderboard comprised Rally2 cars, with WRC2 victor Stéphane Lefebvre leading the charge ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen, Yohan Rossel and Chris Ingram.
Drivers are back on gravel next month for the legendary EKO Acropolis Rally Greece. The event will be based in Lamia and takes place from 8 - 11 September.
Leading positions:
1. O Tänak / M Järveoja EST Hyundai i20 N 2hr 25min 38.9sec
2. E Evans / S Martin GBR Toyota GR Yaris +5.0sec
3. E Lappi / J Ferm FIN Toyota GR Yaris +1min 41.6sec
4. O Solberg / E Edmondson SWE Hyundai i20 N +3min 28.5sec
5. T Katsuta / A Johnston JAP Toyota GR Yaris +6min 6.1sec
6. S Lefebvre / A Malfoy (FRA) Citroën C3 Rally2 +9min 45.7sec
#wrc #ypresrally #rallybelgium
______
Experience the world of Red Bull Rally like you have never seen it before. With the best rallying videos on the web and original series, prepare for your “stoke factor” to be at an all time high.
Subscribe to Red Bull Rally on RUclips: win.gs/SubToRe...
Get the FREE Red Bull TV apps for all your devices: onelink.to/yfbct7
Watch Red Bull TV: win.gs/WatchRBTV
Check out redbull.com
Red Bull Motorsports on Facebook: win.gs/RedBull...
Red Bull Motorsports on Instagram: win.gs/RedBull...
📺 Head to win.gs/wrc-belgium to watch all the rally highlights from Belgium
Really good shows there!
Whatever happened to your "Day 1, 2 and 3" highlights? All your video were just pure spoilers, i loved to watch them without knowing what happened, now I open my feed and I see that Tanak won cold turkey...I'll have to unsubscribe from you and watch it only after i get the highlights.
Ott is amazing man what a driver . And wonderful highlights as usual
Glad you enjoyed
Ott Tanak...amazing drive...le maestro le champ...le waiting...🔥🔥🔥
Everytime you start to think that Neuville is a champion he show you he is a good driver!
Much respect to I20 .
Congratulations to u buddy Ott TÄNAK.
Pliz don't sleep, continue to Revise the techniques that made u Champion in 2019. I LOVE Kalle too but we can still mount Pressure on him. Til 8th sep, RALLY EKO ACROPOLIS, The Rally of gods.
GREECE see u soon
I’m not gonna let Thierry send up my blood pressure anymore I give up on him I can’t deal with his inconsistency , he’s stressing me out and it’s just too heart wrenching to watch him make rookie mistakes throughing away his wins like it’s nothing
Tell me about it , very hard being Craig Breens fan at the moment also :)
It could be his road crew on this. I mean there were just 5 cars left too, all having similar offs. I continue to support Thierry but I assume now that Hyundai will think they could catch Toyota with Ott.
K. Rovanpera still got it... but congz Tanak & Solberg... These youngbloods are wow!
Just keep it up Elfyn Evans, i just wanna see The very potent competent chaser from GB..! ❤🎉😊
Wish the title and thumbnail didn't spoil it for the people who aren't up to date on result.🙃
Anyways way better highlights than wrc . Keep up the good work redbull 🔥
Maybe you should not go online, then - mate ;-)
@@philippreiff2865 how am I supposed to watch the highlights then? :3
We've updated the thumb and title (and will avoid spoilers for future videos).
@@RedBullRally it's great to know you guys check feedback from viewers and took actions. Thankyou
NZ will be an Epic WRC round between drivers .. can’t wait
Still much luv for Toyota. Cape Town South Africa
Toyota actually increased their manufacturer’s points lead. As team results go, Toyota did better this weekend.
Can't wait for you to come to Greece🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷!!! See you in the mountains special stages and off course in Olympic Stadium of Greece for the power stage!!
2 from 2. That Hyundai isn’t so bad after all.
More like Ott & Martin are just so good.
Would have been great it they had this form from the beginning. There was less competition for Toyota
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
My all apologies for before and sweetest Lovely regards To Machelen, Belgie.❤😢
I will see you lads in Aotearoa New Zealand
Well Done, Estonian... Well Done..
Back to back win for Ott. Keep it up .I think Hyundai are becoming reliable. Carry the same fire 🔥 to Acropolis. Rooting on Tanak
Rooting for Tanak
Huge gap to close up tho.
as a belgian: smooth tarmac does not exist in belgium
Love To Belgium.❤😅 Nice to have The Rally of Ypres In Wrc. ❤🎉
Congrats to Ott Tanak.
Meie mees does it.
If rovanpera not out in race,sure he will be champion in ypress rally 2022.
Drivers of the weekend are Ott Tanak and Oliver Solberg.
This Event is a good Replacement for my Home Event in Germany !👍😁
This guy is on 🔥 👏🎆🎆🎆🎇
The withdrawal was i Big bad disappointment to me. I guess The Rally of Ypres were such high powered, super dooper fast rally, but extremely still smooth and safe happening, with its high level of organization.
Agree with other comments on use of spoilers in the video. Some of us do watch the whole rally but can’t do it in real time because of time zone differences. I want to support this channel by subscribing and getting notifications when new content drops here, but not if even the notification spoils the results or RUclips algorithm pushes the spoiler.
Good point! We've updated the thumb and title and will avoid spoilers for future videos).
@@RedBullRally Thanks so much!
As always, amazing highlights - thanks red bull rally! But why put the result in the vid title?
Good question! We've updated the thumb and title (and will avoid spoilers for future videos).
Thanks!
4:36 Cruised through....
Exactly what I thought, it was said while Ott slid like a mad lol
super
The 10 sec late start penalty..I think 🤔
Nice edit!!
We're glad you like it
👍👍👍👍👍
I am sure Ott was driven a stolen car. ;-)
great content whole season!
but if i may suggest, maybe use a little less.. spoiling? :-D pardon my french, titles. I love watching in excitement on who does what :p
Noted! We've updated the thumb and title (and will avoid spoilers for future videos).
Where do M-Sport go from here? The event was a disaster. Their drivers cannot stay on the road or avoid mechanical malady, and the early season hype (and Monte result) seems from another time. I feel for them all, but they seem to have no answers at present.
The sport has ups and downs. I saw similar comments despairing for Hyundai after the first few events.
@@williamlasl I've been watching the WRC' since 1998 so I've certainly seen the cycles, but M-Sport have a fundamentally good car (if down on horsepower) but their drivers are nowhere. Breen has not fulfilled the promise and Formeaux has been atrocious. Greensmith has shown glimpses of promise but he's a pay driver. Loeb is the only one that has proven the car's ability, and he's semi-retired. Where does M-Sport go from here? They're locked in the driving line-up, they've tried putting pressure on the drivers, they've tried just allowing them to have fun, they've given clear direction to get to the finish of events, and they can't even manage that.
these are video fragments of the average belgian driving style
Less talking more racing! ffs
Stop talking, just let me hear the engine.
It’s a recap of the event. They have to explain what happened. There are many other videos if you just want engine sound.
sorry but this won't change anything, kalle will still be the world champion in the end
Maybe so, but imagine if something happens in Greece as well. At least this should make him think twice about risking it to gain a second here and another there. Podiums is all he needs, wins is what he surely wants, so how does that young mind deal with this is still interesting to see.
@@CometF81 True. I'm not a fan of him but I have to agree it's definitely intriguing to see how he's gonna handle this. After all, it's rally! Anything can happen :)
so fuck it, let's cancel the rest of the rallies, just a waste of time. or what was your point?
What's the point of this comment again?
Its almost sure, Rovanperra will become champion this years. But still in the big game there is also other rankings , like alltime stagewins and all time rally wins, in thouse rankings. Tänak climing higher and higher. So its worth to give best even if you are not going to be champion. Rovanperra might become chmapion if he dont win a rally, and becomes 2-3 and takes good points on powerstages.