Tänak takes off at Rally Finland

Ott Tänak (Toyota) n’a pas fait dans le détail ce matin dans la deuxième étape du Rally from Finland. The Estonian won the four stages on the program for the first pass and increased his lead to almost 24 seconds against Mads Ostberg (Citroën).

Jari-Matti Latvala (Toyota) reste bien installé sur la dernière marche du podium provisoire devant Hayden Paddon (Hyundai).

C’est Esapekka Lappi (Toyota) qui a réalisé la plus belle progression de la matinée en gagnant pas moins de trois places pour se retrouver dans le Top 5 en précédant les pilotes M-Sport Teemu Suninen, Sébastien Ogier and Elfyn Evans. Setting changes made the night before on the Ford Fiestas WRC do not seem to have satisfied the pilots.

Craig Breen (Citroen) and Thierry Neuville (Hyundai) still complete the Top 10, while Andreas Mikkelsen (Hyundai) moved up to 13th place. The Norwegian, however, has the disadvantage of opening the road after Khail Al Qassimi's accident in the first special of the day.

Kalle Rovanperä (Skoda) continues to dominate WRC 2 with a large lead over his compatriots Eerik Pietarinen (Skoda) and Jari Huttunen (Hyundai). The latter remains chased by Ole Christian Veiby (Skoda) who is less than 2 seconds from the top three.

The second pass of the second stage of the Rally Finland will start from 13:55 p.m.