Elfyn Evans: “I made things really difficult for myself this morning!”

The road to victory in the World Rally Championship is rarely smooth sailing, and Elfyn Evans can attest to that! While on paper, the Welshman had a perfect weekend with 25 points for victory, 5 from Super Sunday and 5 from the Power Stage, the pressure was on until the end in his fight against Takamoto Katsuta. Leader after Saturday's final stage, Evans found himself behind his teammate at the end of this morning's first stage. A lack of form that the Welshman welcomed positively, allowing him to refocus on his objective, and to triumph at the end of the last two stages of the rally.

"It was a very good weekend even if I made things very difficult for myself this morning in the first special! The advantage is that it allowed me to regain my concentration and I was able to finish the work on these last two specials.", he explained on the microphone of WRC after his victorious arrival in Umeå.

In addition to the overall victory, the driver Toyota has achieved a real clean sweep, with the best time of the Power Stage and the best cumulative time on the three special stages this Sunday. After his second place acquired at the Rallye Monte-Carlo, Elfyn Evans flies away in the championship, but caution remains the order of the day, after only two rounds out of 14.

“It’s a stage where you can easily lose three or four seconds on a very small mistake. I’m happy to have had a fairly clean run, and to win the Power Stage. It’s a very good start to the season, even if we’re still very early in it, I think it would have been difficult to do much better in terms of points.”

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