Ott Tänak is the “skating king” of the hour on the planet Rally Championship!
14 days after his triumph in Finland, the 34- year-old Estonian takes his next WRC triumph.
After an exhilarating fight versus regional hero and world champion leader Kalle Rovanperä at the world champion race near Rovanperä’s birth place Jyväskylä, the 2019 world champ is likewise extremely capable on the tarmac. Tänak wins the Ypres Race in Belgium simply ahead of Elfin Evans from Wales (+5 seconds) and Esapekka Lappi from Finland (+1: 41 minutes).
Surprisingly, just 20- year-old Swede Oliver Solberg in Hyundai (+3: 28 minutes.) takes pleasure in 4th location, 5th is Japanese Takamoto Katsuta (Toyota/ +6: 06 minutes.).
The Hyundai group is commemorating its World Championship triumph over the Toyota group for the 2nd time in 2 weeks.
Rovanperä is still plainly ahead on the planet Championship standings
In the World Championship standings, Tänak is within 72 points of leader Rovanperä, however the 21- year-old Finn still hangs on to his very first WRC title with 4 World Championship rounds to go.
The hunt for speed continues over hill and dale on the dirty gravel tracks of the Acropolis Rally in Greece (September 8 to 11).
Hyundai is injuring the retirement of regional hero Thierry Neuville
Elfin Evans is 2nd in a Toyota Yaris
Photo: © getty
After the spectacular departure of world champion leader Rovanperä at the start of the rally (see post at the end of the text), fans in Flanders experience the drama of their preferred PS Thierry Neuville.
The leader of the World Championship round– after 14 of the 20 unique phases, Neuville was 17.2 seconds ahead of his colleague Tänak– he skidded to the outdoors in the Hyundai on the left-hand bend and wound up in the ditch. The Belgian’s cars and truck strikes a power pole on the front.
Neuville is pressed out by running fans and after that attempts to continue ahead, however needs to park his automobile a couple of hundred meters away.
Ott Tänak “acquires” the lead from Evans and preserves a narrow lead over the Briton in Sunday’s 4 phases.
Verstappen crosses the goal in 64 th location
Dutchman Jos Verstappen struck the headings in the run-up to and throughout the conference.
The dad of Formula 1 world champ Max Verstappen routinely takes part in rallies in Belgium and in his native Netherlands. At the Ypres Rally, the 50- year-old finished his very first World Championship race and was as close as 30 th at the start of the occasion prior to completing 24 th on Friday.
On Saturday, Verstappen Senior even worked his method approximately 20 th general and was leading his class prior to problems emerged on SS 13 and Jos Verstappen was later on lost consciousness.
The previous F1 pilot (107 begins, 17 World Championship points, 2 times on the podium) takes a simple action later on and ends up in the Citroen C3 (RC2) more than 40 minutes behind the winner Tänak and ranks 64 th out of 78 pilots.
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