Ypres, SS15: Neuville loses everything, Tänak new leader!

Turnaround on the Rally from Ypres! Thierry Neuville, who dominated his home rally, gave up! The Belgian failed to brake in a tight corner and went into the ditch!

Thierry Neuville CRASH ss15 Ypres rally leading by 16sec #wrc #neuville pic.twitter.com/BT3OYj6rOk

— lewis sim (@lewissim9) August 20

Bloqué pendant plusieurs minutes, le pilote Hyundai a pu s’extraire mais a dû s’arrêter quelques mètres plus loin… C’est donc la fin de ses espoirs d’une première victoire cette saison !

#WRC 🇧🇪 SS15 #Neuville

⚠️ UPDATE@thierryneuville and @MWydaeghe went off the road into a ditch on SS15 and are forced to withdraw from @ypresrally#HMSGOfficial #YpresRally

— Hyundai Motorsport (@HMSGOfficial) August 20

It's his teammate Ott Tänak who benefits from it and who is the new leader of the Ypres Rally! The Estonian was the fastest during SS15 with a time of 7'19"2 and regained a slight lead over Elfyn Evans (2nd, +3"1). The gap between the two men is now 6″3 overall. The fight for victory is therefore reduced to these two men since Esapekka Lappi (6th, +5″4), new 3rd, is almost a minute behind the leading duo.

In 4th place in the general classification, we find a surprise: Oliver Solberg (5th, +5″0), who overtook Adrien fourmaux (4th, +4″0) in the ranking. The Frenchman received a 20-second penalty for showing up 2 minutes late at the start of the special. “There were a lot of people on the road so we tried to pass people but we were stopped by the police. We have to see if we can do something but yes, we were two minutes late. " has explained the pilot M-Sport at the arrival.

The classification of SS15: 

The general classification after SS15: 

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