Victorious in Greece, Neuville and Wydaeghe are close to Olympus in WRC

By winning in Greece at the end of an edition that lived up to the reputation of this event, Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe dealt a major blow to the title hopes of Toyota and Sébastien Ogier. Showing Olympian calm, the Belgian has never seemed so close to consecration.

Published on 09/09/2024 à 18:00

Loïc ROCCI

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Victorious in Greece, Neuville and Wydaeghe are close to Olympus in WRC

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After the last special, two Rally1s arrived at the entrance to the car wash on the edge of the service park where the scars of the storm that had hit the previous evening were still visible. The black car leading the way was well "chewed" and several pieces were missing, while the one with the blue and orange stripes was intact. Sébastien Ogier parked his Toyota Yaris at the end of the media area. After getting out of his battered car, he began to describe his recent misadventures.

A few minutes later, Thierry Neuville immobilized his Hyundai i20 a little upstream from the remains of the Japanese. He extracted himself and joined the arms of the members of his clan who have accompanied him for several years on each rally. It was then that a huge cry of victory rang out from this small group of people. While there was of course the satisfaction of celebrating this triumph all together, it was not unique.

Loïc ROCCI

Journalist specializing in rallying past, present and future... and with a southern accent

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Brid Get

09/09/2024 at 09:53 a.m.

You're talking nonsense Mr Jouvene, do you have a brain to say so much meanness about Thierry!!!!! If he finally wins the championship it will have been deserved after so many years of famine!!! The mistake he made was to have stayed in the same team from the beginning unlike "Mr" Ogier who was lucky to be in the right team at the right time!!! Come on Thierry and Martijn finally win this championship, it will have been deserved (PS: and I'm not Belgian to say that!!!)......

Bernard JOUVENE

09/09/2024 at 07:20 a.m.

In any case he will remain a "discount" world champion in the absence of the full-time world champions from Toyota!... As Evans would have been. But he is not responsible for it, nor for the totally absurd points scale. And in Greece he finally bought himself a brain!

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