WRC
Fastest Ogier of the shakedown
The penultimate meeting of the 2018 World Rally Championship season (WRC) starts well enough to Sébastien Ogier (M-Sport Ford). Le Français, associé à Julien Ingrassia, set the best time in the shakedown on Thursday morning in Catalonia (Spain).
Le champion en titre a parcouru les deux kilomètres d’entraînement en seulement 1’34’’9. Il devance de trois dixièmes le Finlandais Jari-Matti Latvala (Toyota) et d’une demi-seconde Teemu Suninen (M-Sport Ford).
For Thierry Neuville (Hyundai), a hairpin turned out to be treacherous. The leader of the general classification rolled over at low speed after 500 meters in his second run. “The car turned on two wheels and I tried to save the situation, without success, explains the Belgian.
However, this could be a good omen.. Few years ago (In 2014), we had experienced the same thing in Germany before winning the rally. Fingers crossed it’s the same this weekend.”, he joked.
Et Sébastien Loeb (Citroën), where is he for his third WRC rally of the season? The nine-time world champion achieves the fourth best time, barely a second and a tenth. The Frenchman, however, suffered a scare, in the same place as Thierry Neuville. The C3 WRC was able to land on its wheels.
First run ok… with a small figure #WRC #RallyRACC #CitroënRacing pic.twitter.com/1UnQpBT4Kf
- Sébastien Loeb (@SebastienLoeb) 25th October, 2018
In WRC2, Petter Solberg hasn't lost his touch. The 2003 world champion rode the fastest in this category behind the wheel of the new Volkswagen Polo GTI R5. His teammate for a weekend Eric Camilli is in second place, four tenths behind.
.@Petter_Solberg quickest in # WRC2 after three runs of @RallyRACC #shakedown, ahead fo the #Polo #GTI #R5 sister car of @EricCamilli – looks promising, though just a shakedown. Made for #Gracel #Tarmac #IceSnow pic.twitter.com/3j6KqmU8eW
— VolkswagenMotorsport (@volkswagenms) 25th October, 2018
The first special, contested near the circuit F1 in Montjuic Park in Barcelona, will be launched at 18:08 p.m. Thursday evening.
Medhi Casaurang
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