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Elfyn Evans / Scott Martin (Toyota Yaris WRC) won Rally Turkey, in what is their second victory of the year, the third of their career, which combined with the abandonment of Sebastien Ogier / Julien Ingrassia (Toyota Yaris WRC), who The last day of the race saw the Yaris’ engine ‘burn out’.
In this way, the Welshman is positioned quite well in the fight for the championship, as he is 18 points ahead of Ogier, this when there are only two rallies left for the end of the championship. With 60 points up for grabs in the next Sardinian race, Evans will struggle with starting order, but eighteen is a lot of points and they may well close the gap in British titles, something that hasn’t happened since Richard Burns won the World Cup. 2001.
Second place to Thierry Neuville / Nicolas Gilsoul (Hyundai I20 Coupé WRC) who won the PowerStage and minimized losses by as much as they recovered 23 points from Ogier. However, Evans’ 32 late points are nothing short of unrecoverable in the World Cup, though not impossible. Although not mathematically, since there are 60 at stake, if no more evidence is introduced, something we do not think will happen. After a difficult first day, due to the dust, he was doing his job well, leading the race, but in the ninth stage a hole spoiled his possible victory.
Sebastien Loeb / Daniel Elena (Hyundai I20 Coupé WRC) took the podium in what may have been their last race in the WRC. They were in the fight for second place, they entered the last day of the event tied with Ogier, but as happened to several teams, PE9 was demolishing and there they lost 1m20s, due to a puncture, falling to fourth place overall. although to stay in the fight for the podium that they ended up getting.
Kalle Rovanperä / Jonne Halttunen (Toyota Yaris WRC) took fourth place, having run most of the race in fifth place. They came up with the abandonment of Ogier. A regular rally, in a race that was perceived as survival for all.
Gus Greensmith / Elliott Edmondson (Ford Fiesta WRC) had several setbacks during the rally, he did poorly, but the result was much better than the performance, when he finished in fifth place.
Esapekka Lappi / Janne Ferm (Ford Fiesta WRC) was sixth, after many problems, and after leaving the second day, with a problem in the direction of the i20 WRc, Ott Tänak / Martin Järveoja (Hyundai I20 Coupé WRC) still won Four points in PowerStage, but the possible revalidation of the title is at 27 points, which seems too much for a driver as regular as Elfyn Evans. Interestingly, it has the same 70 points as Kalle Rovanpera.
Sebastien Ogier / Julien Ingrassia (Toyota Yaris WRC) entered the last day of the race in the fight for second place, as the victory in theory was yielded to Neuville, but when it comes to Rally Turkey, almost nothing is the same. it seems. and Ogier gave up when he was third, two stages from the end, with serious engine problems. Teemu Suninen / Jarmo Lehtinen (Ford Fiesta WRC) and Pierre-Louis Loubet / Vincent Landais (Hyundai I20 Coupé WRC) also got in the way.
Now the WRC heads to Sardinia where Evans will not have an easy life as he leads one of the worst rallies of the year to do so. But with the head start, you can have a containment rally and wait to see how the fashions end. In any case, the numbers now say that two Toyota drivers are in the top two positions of the championship, but things are not defined yet.
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