World Championship (WRC) continues between Thursday and Sunday with the Sweden RallySecondary marking test and where the winner of the Inaugural Race (Montecarlo) and head of the contest, Frenchman Sebastien Ogier (Toyota Gr Yaris)
Just three weeks ago, Ogier, eight times the world champion, won for the tenth hour rally of Monte Carlo. But in the limited 2025 racing program is not the Sweden rally, the only trial to be debated in snow and ice.
In the absence of Ogier, the Toyota leadership in Sweden fell to Elfyn Evans. British, second in Montecarlo and the World Cup, won this test in 2020. It was the second of its nine WRC success.
Together with Evans, Toyota aligned with Sweden with Finn Kalle Rovcanperä. World Champion in 2022 and 2023 and won Sweden in 2022; In Japanese Takamoto Katsuta and also Finnish Sami Pajari, which represents the second Japanese brand team, which will have a fifth Yaris for Italian Lorenzo Bertelli through Escudería’s client program.
The current World Champion, the Belgian Thierry Neuville, the leading Hyundai teamwho completed Estonian ott tänak and Frenchman Adrien Fourmaux. The three will have three units of the revised I20 N Rally1.
The M-Sport Ford team has three puma in Sweden, for Luzemburgés Greek MunsterThe Irish Josh McerlanThe Greek Jourdan Serderidis And the letta Martins Sesks.
Sweden’s rally is disputed in forests north of the country and along the center of the town of Umeå. It is one of the oldest rallies in the world and the only calendar test played in whole in snow and ice and with temperatures that can drop to 10 degrees Celsius below zero.
This is a breed where pilots “support” their cars against snow banks bordering sections to guide them with curves, while pirelli tires with nails are the ones who give the grip. It is also one of the fastest rallies of the year. Last time Rovanperä averaged 121.52 km/h.
The rally, which has its headquarters in Umeå, begins this Thursday afternoon with a single section and will have a total of 18 special, three of them completely new, and 343.08 kilometers counterretaj.
Source: La Verdad
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