Perfect morning for Tänak in Portugal

The man of this Saturday morning is none other thanOtt Tänak. Leader à l’issue de la première journée de l’épreuve lusitanienne, le pilote Hyundai n’a rien laissé à ses adversaires ce samedi matin.

Last to start each special, the 33-year-old Estonian set the three best times on the first loop of the day, thus increasing his lead at the top of the general classification.

Strong leader of Rally du Portugal, Ott Tänak compte 19“2 d’avance sur son plus proche poursuivant Elfyn Evans (Toyota). En tête jusqu’à l’ES7 de vendredi, Dani Sordo est désormais 3e à plus de 25 secondes de son coéquipier.

More in legs than Friday, Sébastien Ogier (Toyota) returned to contact with Takamoto Katsuta, its partner at the Japanese manufacturer. Fifth overall, the Gapençais is only half a second behind Katsuta.

Back in the race after missing SS8 the day before, Thierry Neuville (Hyundai) had a very complicated morning. Starting as an opener, the Belgian was not in the running and even had problems between SS10 and SS11 which caused him to once again lose a lot of time.

As for other French people, Adrien fourmaux (M-Sport) s’est fait distancer par son coéquipier Gus Greensmith tandis que Pierre-Louis Loubet a définitivement abandonné le rallye après son accident de l’ES2 vendredi.

In WRC2, Esapekka Lappi (Movisport) still dominates the debates ahead of Teemu Suninen (M-Sport) and Nikolay Gryazin (Movisport). Kajetan Kajetanowicz leads the WRC3 category. The French Yohan Rossel and Nicolas Ciamin follow him. In JWRC, we find Martins Sesks at the top of the rankings.

The resumption of the competition is scheduled for 15:38 p.m. and will be followed on AUTOhebdo.