Ott Tänak is therefore the fastest on this 7th special and extends his lead overall. See you at 16:53 p.m. for SS8!

The classification of SS7: 

The general classification after SS7: 

Jari Huttunen brings up the rear 9″2 behind Tänak.

11″8 behind for Adrien Fourmaux on this SS7, the Ford is really not in its element.

Pierre-Louis Loubet concedes 9″9 on Tänak’s time, the M-Sports currently have the three worst times of the special…

Esapekka Lappi still loses a little time against Ott Tänak: 2″1 lost for the Finn.

Lappi: “It’s not a battle. I lose all the time! Ott does a good job. »

8″9 behind Gus Greensmith on Tänak’s time, the M-Sports don’t seem to be comfortable on this special…

Craig Breen, although 5 tenths behind Tänak at the first intermediate, lost 10″1 at the end of the special. The Irishman declares that he hit a rock on the course…

Takamoto Katsuta finished the special 6″7 behind Tänak’s time.

Ott Tänak continued his momentum from this morning and set the provisional best time, in 5'42″5.

Tanak: “I take risks. In some places I feel good, but in others you have surprises and you feel like you're slow. I would say overall we had a clean stage – that's all we can do at the moment. “ 

Elfyn Evans lost time at the end of the special and finally conceded 2″0 to Rovanperä.

Evans: “I knew at the end it wasn’t going to be a good run. The weather is no surprise. »

6″6 lost for Thierry Neuville on Kalle Rovanperä.

Neuville: “I felt like I had a puncture at one point, so I took it a little easier, but I felt a little more confident in the car. »

First reference time for Kalle Rovanperä on SS7: 5'44″7.

Rovanperä: “Of course we will try to stay in the fight. It was a pretty good step for me – I feel like I gave it my all. I don't know what more we could have done – I hope our time is good. »

Thierry Neuville is already 2 seconds behind Rovanperä at the first intermediate.

As a reminder, here is the starting order of the drivers this afternoon, still in championship order: 

1. Rovanperä
2. Neuville
3. Evans
4. Thank you
5. Feel it
6. Breen
7. Greensmith
8. Lapland
9. loubet
10. Fourmaux
11. Huttunen

Oliver Solberg, who crashed this morning during SS2, retired for the rest of the weekend.

The video summary, offered by the WRC Twitter account: 

The opening morning of Rally Finland got off to a quick start but wasn't without drama… 👀#WRC | #WRCLive | #RallyFinland pic.twitter.com/2bIzP0me54

- World Rally Championship (@OfficialWRC) August 5

Here is the summary of the 5 special stages of the morning. After SS6, it was Ott Tänak who led the rally, just ahead of the two Toyotas of Esapekka Lappi and Elfyn Evans.

Tänak leads a very tight field on Rally Finland

The start of SS7 (Ässämäki 1 – 12,31 km) is scheduled for 16:00 p.m.