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Toyota Gazoo Racing will field an all-new driver line-up in next year’s FIA World Rally Championship after confirming the signings of Sébastien Ogier, Elfyn Evans and Kalle Rovanperä on Wednesday (27 November).Ogier, 35, joins the Japanese manufacturer from Citroën Racing in a one-year deal which is expected to be his final campaign before retiring from the WRC. Evans and Rovanperä have inked two-year contracts.Evans, 30, joins from M-Sport Ford for whom he has driven his entire WRC career. He links up again with Ogier after two seasons together at the British squad in 2017 and 2018.Nineteen-year-old Rovanperä is one of the sport’s most exciting young prospects. He steps up to the headline World Rally Car category from Skoda Motorsport, for whom he won the WRC 2 Pro title this season.The trio replaces newly-crowned world champion Ott Tänak, who has switched to Hyundai Motorsport, and the out-of-contract Jari-Matti Latvala and Kris Meeke.
Toyota Gazoo Racing will field an all-new driver line-up in next year’s FIA World Rally Championship after confirming the signings of Sébastien Ogier, Elfyn Evans and Kalle Rovanperä on Wednesday (27 November).Ogier, 35, joins the Japanese manufacturer from Citroën Racing in a one-year deal which is expected to be his final campaign before retiring from the WRC. Evans and Rovanperä have inked two-year contracts.Evans, 30, joins from M-Sport Ford for whom he has driven his entire WRC career. He links up again with Ogier after two seasons together at the British squad in 2017 and 2018.Nineteen-year-old Rovanperä is one of the sport’s most exciting young prospects. He steps up to the headline World Rally Car category from Skoda Motorsport, for whom he won the WRC 2 Pro title this season.The trio replaces newly-crowned world champion Ott Tänak, who has switched to Hyundai Motorsport, and the out-of-contract Jari-Matti Latvala and Kris Meeke.
Ogier, an eight-time winner in the French Alps, opened the series' pioneering new hybrid-powered era by winning both speed tests in his Toyota GR Yaris to build a 6.7sec lead.Snapping on his heels was seven-time Monte winner Loeb. In his first WRC drive for more than a year, the French master finished second in both stages in M-Sport Ford's Puma.It was hard to imagine a more daunting opening to the sport's new generation. Two stages on winding roads in darkness, including the crossing of the iconic Col de Turini, with frost settling on the asphalt and drivers yet to learn the mix of electric and combustion engine power in competition.
The Rally driver Sebastien Ogier currently ranks on the top in the World Rally Championship leading with 35 points. Now the fourth stage starts in Argentina. Will he be able to maintain the top spot?
The two Toyotas stretch the lead with the Frenchman overtaking Evans. The gap for Hyundai increases with Sordo 3rd followed by Neuville slowed by a contact. Rossel 10th is leader in WRC 3 and Mikkelsen duels against Huttunen in WRC 2. Crugnola, eleventh, first of the Italians.Monza, Friday 20 November 2021 - Second day of competition for the best drivers of the World competing in the FORUM8 ACI Rally Monza, the last round of the FIA WRC. Four tests to face in the first half of the stage always in the Bergamo area and among these also the two challenging laps on the longest time trial of the Rally, that of Selvino of almost twenty-five kilometers. Timed sections that were called upon to confirm or not the technical values expressed by yesterday's first stage. Values that have been largely confirmed with a ranking that sees the two Toyota of Ogier and Evans who are currently even more widely in the lead with a clear advantage over the two Hyundai of Sordo and Neuville, the latter relegated to fourth position due to a touched during the second test today. The only real novelty was the confirmation of the great class but also of the great determination of Sebastien Ogier who in the last of the four tests just disputed returned to the command of the race making it clear to his teammate, Elfyn Evans, that he will not be satisfied with placing himself behind him to win the drivers' championship, but will also try to win the race. When at the end of today's stage there are only two special stages, mostly taken from sections of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, the situation sees the multiple world champion in command who now has a 5 " 2 advantage over Evans. The two Hyundai are still far away, those of the Spaniard Dani Sordo, third at 33 " 4 and that of Neuville which also due to the morning touch is now at 51 " 9.
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