Rally|The opening of the season is curvy in unpredictable conditions. After Friday, Sebastien Ogier is in the lead.
Rally In the opening round of the World Cup season, the Frenchman, who has won the rally nine times in his amazing career, came out on top in the last special stage of the day in the Monte Carlo rally Sebastien Ogierand at the end of Friday, the rally legend still extended his lead. Ogier starts Saturday with a 12.6 second gap to his Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans.
“A good decision for the day, but we had to fight for this. Earlier in the day, I wasn’t feeling so good, I couldn’t find the perfect rhythm. But these last two special stages were good for me”, Ogier said of the World Series live monitoring by.
The Toyota duo is closely harassing Hyundai Adrien Fourmauxwho is only 1.6 seconds behind Evans. Toyota’s Kalle Rovanperä is in fourth place, but the gap to Fourmaux stretched to 24.3 seconds at the end of the day and to 38.5 seconds to the top.
“We are not where we would like to be in terms of speed,” Rovanperä summed up his day.
Toyota’s Sami Pajari rose from ninth to eighth place, while the reigning world champion, Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville ended his difficult day with a flat tire and fell behind Pajar.
On Saturday, six special tests will be run in the rally, the first of which starts at 9:56 a.m. Finnish time.