Rovanperä Goes on the Attack at Rally Sweden 👊
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2022
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Finn opens up 8.3s lead over Evans with Neuville and Lappi close behind.
Kalle Rovanperä led Rally Sweden on Saturday night after a breathtaking drive in darkness distanced his rivals at the close of another fast and furious day's competition.
Five different drivers led this second round of the FIA World Rally Championship in Friday's opening leg, but the Finn took control for a second time on Saturday morning and fended off an attack from Toyota GR Yaris team-mate Elfyn Evans.
Rovanperä headed Evans by just 1.2sec with two speed tests remaining. As night fell, he turned up the pace further to win both stages and extend his advantage to 8.3sec over the Welshman with Sunday's short final leg remaining.
Rovanperä relegated overnight leader Thierry Neuville in the opening special stage and was almost five seconds to the good by the day's midpoint. Evans retaliated on the second pass of the roads only for his colleague to deliver a potentially crucial blow in the dark.
"I knew that when we lost a bit in the afternoon's first stage we needed to fight back," Rovanperä explained. "It should always be 100 per cent commitment but on the last stage I think it was 105 or 110 per cent! They were really difficult conditions and I'm happy to be through without mistakes. Tomorrow will still be a big fight."
Evans won two of the six stages compared to Rovanperä's treble but almost threw away his chances on the last corner of the closing test. He ploughed through a snowbank at exactly the point where the finish timing beam was located and completed the final metres to the stop line on a road parallel to the stage.
Neuville remained on the heels of the two Toyota drivers until an overshoot in the morning's final test cost 10sec and demoted him to fourth. A spirited recovery promoted him back to third, but he ended 21.7sec off the lead in his Hyundai i20 N.
The Belgian had 4.2sec in hand over the third GR Yaris of Esapekka Lappi. The Finn fell away from the lead battle during the day and closed almost 1min 20sec clear of the similar car of Takamoto Katsuta.
The Japanese driver benefited from a throttle problem for Oliver Solberg, who dropped 90sec after limping through the final stage in his i20 N. Solberg also collected a 2min 40sec penalty for arriving late at the test after working to make repairs on the preceding liaison section.
Gus Greensmith was sixth in a Ford Puma. He gained two places in the final stage due to Solberg's problem and an engine issue for team-mate Adrien Fourmaux, which cost the Frenchman almost five minutes and dropped him off the leaderboard.
Two stages north-west of Umeå are driven twice in Sunday's finale, totalling 56.84km. The closing test forms the bonus points-paying Wolf Power Stage.
Leading positions after Saturday
1. K Rovanperä / J Halttunen FIN Toyota GR Yaris 1hr 45min 26.7sec
2. E Evans / S Martin GBR Toyota GR Yaris +8.3sec
3. T Neuville / M Wydaeghe BEL Hyundai i20 +21.7sec
4. E Lappi / J Ferm FIN Toyota GR Yaris +25.9sec
5. T Katsuta / A Johnston GBR Toyota GR Yaris +1min 44.8sec
6. G Greensmith / J Andersson GBR Ford Puma +2min 48.1sec
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One day remains in the rally, who's going to win? Annnnnd GO 👇
Rovanperä.
Kalle has a chance. So does Elfyn.
Rovanpera but I wish it was Evens.
Plus have u a link for where I can learn about the hybrid system ? 👍✌️🇬🇧
Great video but could you put like a rally leaderboard at the end? I wanna know how my guy Adrien is doing!
great idea
It’s in the description
Those drone shots - wow! Amazing in the snow, looks like fun 🤩
Amazing to think the winner of this year's first Rally, Sébastien Loeb, age 47, began racing in WRC in 2002 when Kalle Rovanperä, winner of this year's second rally was only one year old!
Nice observation!
Harri Must be proud!!!
Brilliant, love the coverage, love the cars, the best drivers in the world.... full stop. The only issue.... the coverage isn't long enough!!!
Thanks, trust us when we say we'd make them longer if we could!
@@RedBullRally thanks for that
the redbull TV version is 20-30' long! check it out
Wow that was scary, I thought Evans just stopped short of the line, thank goodness he finished the stage!
Me as well :| Dear lord!
I’ve decided! I’m backing rovanpera for the win! Go Kalle!!
Bellissimo video. Bellissimo riprese! Molto bravo.
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EXCELLENT COVERAGE AGAIN THANK YOU
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent content as usual
Much appreciated
Now the battle of the Toyotas
More drone footage please
Rövanpera for the win
So two of the Hyundai's have had problems with their hybrid systems. Just bad luck for them (and not others?), or something about how they have installed, configured, implemented?
I feel there is still quite some 'fun' to come with these new hybrid bits.
Yeah, it is a bit weird how the hybrid system in the Hyundai is failing, while it is seemingly fine on both the Toyotas & Fords
@@AbrahamArthemius the hybrid failed on Loeb's car in Monte Carlo for one stage and for Greensmith in Sweden and they drive Fords It seems to me the hybrid is better on the Toyotas or it hasn't failed YET.
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wrc only drive hatchbacks?
Suomi🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
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redbull never stop cpvering rally pls
It's completely idiotic to set the end of time measurement zone where there is a turn. Everybody should go flat out through the turn and crash, but get better time without this last braking.
Dannng, you mentioned the RWD and historique cars leaving different lines through the snow for the 2022 pro cars to contend with....I really want to see some rwd coverage, please? : ) To me Porsche 911's, Datsun 240's, and BMW M3's are the best rally cars, anything with power to the back that slides around every corner.
Everyone loves group b but to me it represents the moment where rallying started to get consistently worse in my opinion at least insofar as the cars. I know I'm absolutely in the minority on that, and some of the B's like the first generation or so of Quattro were cool, but awd and turning every car into a sequential-shifting econobox hatchback with the same engine drivetrain ecu and aerodynamics as the other 3 or 4 cars in the field.........huge meh. Breaks my heart
But oh man WRC 11 is gonna be a lot quicker than the last couple.
The rwd cars were the rgt class
@@ronanmacruaidhri2509 yes they were, thank you. I just meant I'd like to see this channel cover it although maybe they do