After a Monte Carlo between ups and downs, Tänak reassures before Sweden: "The foundations are solid"

He was one of the presenters of this Monte-Carlo version 2025. Surprisingly, Ott Tänak attacked delicately by assuming his strategy which cost him a lot of time on his rivals Thursday evening and all Friday when he was almost 50 seconds behind the race leader after 8 special stages.

But the 2019 world champion has designed his plan in such a way that it will allow him to come back like a cannonball on Saturday, particularly during the afternoon loop, to come back to within 30 seconds of the leader. Sébastien Ogier and just 7 behind second-placed Elfyn Evans.

Unfortunately, his Sunday strategy did not allow him to continue and Ott Tänak quickly got his feet back on the ground, even falling back to 5th place behind Kalle Rovanperä. A blessing in disguise for the driver. Hyundai who expects to bounce back in the next round in Sweden (February 13-16), helped among other things by a good position in the starting order on Friday.

« It was a pretty fun Monte Carlo, admits-he. We didn't get everything right, but there are still a lot of positives to take away. The speed was there on Saturday. We worked on the car and felt more comfortable once we made some set-up changes to be more efficient with the tyres.

We took some good points and we can be a little bit more satisfied with our position on the road before Sweden. We couldn't fix some small issues, but the foundations are solid. We will solve them even if it takes a little time. Even on Sunday morning the matrix said that the slicks would be two minutes slower, but they were a minute faster later.. » This time it's up to him to find the right compromise on the Swedish snow to play in front from start to finish.

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