Ogier vs Evans: The Battle is ON | WRC Rally Monza 2021
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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Elfyn Evans led FORUM8 ACI Rally Monza on Friday night after a thrilling FIA World Rally Championship title scrap with team-mate Sébastien Ogier.
Ogier was the master of the mountains to lead after four fiendishly difficult speed tests in the Italian Alps. Evans had the better of the afternoon at Monza's 'Cathedral of Speed' circuit to close the first of three days with a 1.4sec advantage.
Evans is bidding to wipe out a 17-point deficit and deny his Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate an eighth world title in nine seasons. But Ogier is currently doing enough to finish his full-time WRC career on the best possible note.
Ogier won three of the first four special stages in fog and on slippery asphalt to lead by 6.5sec in his Toyota Yaris World Rally Car. Brake problems hampered the Frenchman at Monza and Evans took advantage to charge to the front.
The Welshman was relieved to emerge unscathed from a tough final stage in darkness and falling temperatures.
"That stage wasn't easy, especially coming straight into the chicanes with quite cold tyres," he admitted. "It's not really nice in the dark. It was a good day around the track but, of course, we have work to do for the mountain stages tomorrow."
"It's been a good start," smiled Ogier. "I think we had a good drive in the mountains. This afternoon I had some little issues and I didn't take any risks in the last stage with the chicanes. I'm happy where I am right now. Elfyn is not a fight I need to take on."
The front-running pair left others in their wake. Thierry Neuville was best of the rest, 20.2sec adrift in third place in a Hyundai i20. The Belgian overcame handling problems in the mountains and an afternoon gearbox issue to win one stage.
Team-mate Dani Sordo initially headed Neuville, but the Spaniard dropped behind and gradually fell away as he fought an understeering car. He bounced back to win the final stage and ended 3.0sec adrift in fourth.
Oliver Solberg impressed en route to fifth in another i20. The young Swede survived a half spin to close the day 26.0sec behind Sordo and 14.9sec ahead of Takamoto Katsuta's Yaris.
The Japanese driver conceded a handful of seconds after stalling his engine, but remained clear of Gus Greensmith's Ford Fiesta in seventh. Teemu Suninen eased through the day to hold eighth on his debut in a top-level i20.
Ninth was a cautious Kalle Rovanperä in another Yaris, the Toyota Gazoo Racing man a back-up to Ogier and Evans. His role is to ensure sufficient points are in the bag to seal the manufacturers' crown should his battling colleagues fall by the wayside.
WRC3 leader Yohan Rossel completed the leaderboard in 10th.
Adrien Fourmaux was the only major retirement. The Frenchman was sixth in a Fiesta when he drifted wide in a corner, hit a wall and rolled back across the road.
Saturday is the longest leg of the rally with 108.24km of action in a similar format. A double pass through two mountain stages in the morning is followed by two afternoon Monza tests.
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Ogier took crucial stage wins on the tarmac where he's strong, he just needs to play it safe and finish fifth.
Ogier smacked his car a bit today, affected the car after. Didn't show it here. Looked like he knocked his back suspension out a bit. He will be back to flying again tomorrow. But we'll see...
Damn these cars sound absolutely beautiful
The battle between Ogier & Evans is already awesome, but the man of the rally for the moment is the 5th placed Oliver Solberg 💪🔥
Evans going to win this, that man can drive.
With open mounth 😮
Hard luck. Sebastian won
Oliver - go for it !!!
Tidy day's highlights, RBR - thanks, diolch.
GO ELFYN! 🏴
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¡Thank's for news RB, I'm love it!
Great video, thanks a lot! Ogier has to win this 💪🏻 He deserves it sooo much. And after that the Evans - Rovanpera - Solberg area will be very interesting 🤟🏻
Neuville fans ?
yessir
Iam a big fan of thierry 🤘♥️
My friend Mimi from Belgium - she is a GRAND Thierry fan.
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Oh IT IS ON!!
Seb will go out on top ..Elvyn will shine to the top in 2022
Nice coverage as always red bull
Much appreciated
Lovely to see the old Monza banked circuit being used.......
COISA LINDA
C’MON ELFYN
Great rally monza
Gazoo is too powerful
Just looking through out the years no matter how much technology these cars have WRC became super boring.
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Toyota ma car ma team Evans my name Ogier my love let's go harder mehn haardest haaaard to the wire.
Geez, WHAT IF...Elfyn would've drive like this last year ?
Are these cars rwd?
Its AWD
All WRC cars are AWD, including their lower class brethren like WRC2 & WRC3. The only non-AWD cars are in Junior WRC of which they're all FWD.
The handling characteristics between FWD & AWD cars are close to each other.
The only brand new RWD rally car i can think of is the GT86 Rally Car and they're used mostly in regional rallies.
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