Epic Battle Right Until the End at Rally Finland 🇫🇮
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
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Estonian produces gritty drive to give Hyundai Motorsport its first Finnish win.
Ott Tänak secured Secto Rally Finland victory on Sunday afternoon to give Hyundai Motorsport its first ever triumph in Jyväskylä with a precision-perfect drive.
The Estonian driver led from the second stage of the rally to finish the four-day gravel road fixture 6.8sec clear of Toyota GR Yaris rival Kalle Rovanperä - clinching his third Finland success in the process.
Tänak found it difficult to be comfortable in his Hyundai i20 N from the get-go, but was still able to produce top times throughout thanks to hard grit and determination.
As Friday’s road-opener, Rovanperä was slow out of the blocks but reeled off five stage wins on Saturday to climb from fourth to second overall. He ended the penultimate day just 8.4sec in arrears after slicing the deficit in unpredictable conditions.
Dry conditions ensured further fast-paced action in Sunday’s closing leg, but Tänak was in no mood to compromise. He gave just 1.8sec away to his rival over the four speed tests and stood atop the podium for the first time since Rally Italia Sardegna in June.
"The Toyota guys gave me some help on Friday at the beginning and since then we saw a chance - some light at the end of the tunnel - and we were pushing from there," Tänak said.
"All I want to say in these difficult times is that it's really all down to my wife. She has been supporting me so much and I am really proud of her. I love you so much," he added, facing the TV cameras.
Rovanperä virtually resigned himself from a maiden home victory after Sunday morning’s first pass of Ruuhimäki, where he and Tänak posted identical times. With a solid haul of points in the bag, the 21-year was unwilling to take any unnecessary risks.
He stretched his championship points lead to 94 after eight of 13 rounds, while his Toyota Gazoo Racing squad ended 88 points clear in the manufacturers’ standings with three Yaris cars in the top four.
Home hero Esapekka Lappi completed the podium 1min 13.9sec down, but was lucky to even see the finish after rolling on SS21. He used epoxy resin to patch a crack in his Toyota’s radiator ahead of the last stage and powered through with no front windscreen.
Elfyn Evans was 16.9sec behind and conceded time on Saturday afternoon. Like his team-mate, the Welshman also had to pick up the spanners, bodging together damaged rear suspension using ratchet straps and jubilee clips.
It wasn’t Thierry Neuville’s weekend. Set-up frustrations plagued the Hyundai driver and he was never in a position to fight with the leading quartet. He trailed Evans by 40.4sec in fifth overall and slipped to third in the championship behind Tänak.
Yaris hotshot Takamoto Katsuta ended 51.0sec further back to head Gus Greensmith, who was M-Sport Ford’s leading Puma driver in seventh overall.
Greensmith scrapped with colleague Pierre-Louis Loubet for most of the event but the Frenchman retired with mechanical woes before the final stage.
The championship returns to asphalt in less than two weeks when Belgium makes its second WRC appearance. Ypres Rally Belgium takes place on August 18 - 21.
Final positions:
1. O Tänak / M Järveoja EST Hyundai i20 N 2hr 24min 4.6sec
2. K Rovanperä / J Halttunen FIN Toyota GR Yaris +6.8sec
3. E Lappi / J Ferm FIN Toyota GR Yaris +1min 20.7sec
4. E Evans / S Martin GBR Toyota GR Yaris +1min 37.6sec
5. T Neuville / M Wydaeghe BEL Hyundai i20 N +2min 18.0sec
6. T Katsuta / A Johnston JPN Toyota GR Yaris +3min 9.0sec
FIA World Rally Championship (after round 8 of 13):
1. K Rovanperä 198pts
2. O Tänak 104pts
3. T Neuville 103pts
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Happy for Esapekka, deserved 👍👍👍
But he also had some luck. If that car hadn’t landed right side up after the roll, he probably would have fallen out of the points.
@@williamlasl fans can turn it to wheels, usually they do
@@williamlasl well yeah but he had terrible luck whit The rock earlier
Thank you to the men and women at Red Bull Rally/redbulltv and DirtFish for all the great WRC coverage they provide over the past several years now.
Kalle did a massive effort. Climbing all the way up to 2nd, seconds shy of victory despite opening friday first on the road.
way bigger effort from ott to drag that dog of a hyundai to victory tho, imo his best drive ever
And won the power stage
@@nisu_unn They are both fantastic drivers
@@uusername absolutely
Lmao Kalle has had it easy by far best car that's why he leads if he wasn't on Toyota he would be dead last!!!
well done Tanak for that clean drive. Hope we have a repeat of the same in Belgium
Amazing coverage as usual red bull! Can I suggest putting the total points for each driver at the end of day 3 to keep track of who is first,second,third...
We put that in the video description.
@@RedBullRally but can we suggest putting that on the video.
What do i buy red bull energy drinks for?
@@More_Row For wings
U the man Lappi. Cape Town South Africa
Hyundai looked very smooth and balanced on those jumps.
Thanks for long decent coverage with out adding awful music like WRC channel does
Congrats Ott Cape Town South Africa
That jump at the end.
Tanak and Lappi the protagonists of this rally!
Epic drive from Tanak, after being driving the 307 Hybrid the whole rally. I was expecting he was going to say "Only electric power, whole stage. Look at the time. You can tell Julien electric power is enough" at the end of any stage.
3:12 Blowing to get the hair done LOL
Super
4:57
I shouldn't laugh, but that made me laugh
The True of rally
Your car still want to race... Don't stop just cause rolling 3rd times and broken windshield
👍👍👍👍👍
WHY ISNT TOYOTA PROMOTING THEIR RELIABILITY MORE IN THE PUBLIC!?
Everybody already knows it's reliable.
Super esapekka
Ott knows
I LIKE RALLY RATHER THAN F1... RALLY FUKL OF SKILSS.. TOTALLY ULTIMATE DRIVING SKILL !!!!!!
Red bull rally next for wrc is Greece 🇬🇷 rally
Ferrari ..lamborghini ..bugatti can not do anything in this rally
Ott is better
I don’t like Kalle
yes you do
My man Ott! You did it. Yay!
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