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TOYOTA GAZOO Racing finishes strongly on Swedish snow

Itumeleng Garebatshabe
Last updated: February 20, 2024 10:16
By Itumeleng Garebatshabe
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TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team has ended a challenging Rally Sweden on a high with Elfyn Evans scoring a strong haul of points towards the championship after setting the pace on the final day and claiming second overall.

It was a strong recovery for Evans after he was forced to run first on the road and plough through deep snow on Friday afternoon. Having been just 1.9 seconds from the eventual winner during mid-day service, the extreme conditions left him 1m50s from the lead at the end of the day.

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Having moved up from fifth to third on Saturday morning, Evans then stormed into second place on Sunday’s opening stage. He was fastest in the subsequent second pass of that stage, and finished a close second in the rally-ending Power Stage. That was enough to top the ‘Super Sunday’ classification, giving he and co-driver Scott Martin a total of 24 points from the weekend – more than any other crew.

2024 FIA World Rally Championship / Round 02 / Rally Sweden / 14-18 February, 2024 // Worldwide Copyright: Toyota GAZOO Racing WRT

Both Kalle Rovanperä and Takamoto Katsuta fought for the rally lead before they fell victim to the snowbanks that line the stages. Rovanperä held the early lead until contact with a snow bank in SS4 on Friday caused radiator damage. He restarted on Saturday and targeted manufacturers’ points on Sunday, where he was second-quickest to Evans across the day and fastest by just 0.039s in the Power Stage. The team therefore took the maximum 22 points available on Sunday and remains jointly in the lead of the manufacturer’s’ championship after two rounds.

After an excellent drive through the demanding conditions of Friday, Katsuta was only 0.9s from first place before he got stuck in a snowbank on Saturday morning’s SS10. He too returned to action on Sunday.

Lorenzo Bertelli enjoyed driving an additional fourth GR YARIS Rally1 HYBRID on the Swedish stages for the second year in succession through TGR-WRT’s customer programme. Enthusiastic as ever, the Italian reached the finish in 10th place overall.

In its second WRC2 event, the GR Yaris Rally2 proved to be a competitive force with four cars finishing inside the top five of the class and the overall top 10 in the hands of customer teams. Those four cars were engaged in close competition for most of the event, with Sami Pajari ultimately finishing second in WRC2 for Printsport ahead of Georg Linnamäe (RedGrey), Roope Korhonen (Rautio Motorsport) and Mikko Heikkilä (TGS). There was also an outright stage win in the extreme conditions of Friday afternoon in the hands of Linnamäe in SS5.

PROVISIONAL FINAL CLASSIFICATION, RALLY SWEDEN
1 Esapekka Lappi/Janne Ferm (Hyundai i20 N Rally1 HYBRID) 2h33m04.9s
2 Elfyn Evans/Scott Martin (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1 HYBRID) +29.6s
3 Adrien Fourmaux/Alexandre Coria (Ford Puma Rally1 HYBRID) +47.9s
4 Thierry Neuville/Martijn Wydaeghe (Hyundai i20 N Rally1 HYBRID) +1m46.3s
5 Oliver Solberg/Elliott Edmondson (Škoda Fabia RS Rally2) +5m04.2s
6 Sami Pajari/Enni Mälkönen (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) +6m23.9s
7 Georg Linnamäe/James Morgan (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) +6m26.4.s
8 Roope Korhonen/Anssi Viinikka (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) +6m48.1s
9 Mikko Heikkilä/Kristian Temonen (Toyota GR Yaris Rally2) +7m25.7s
10 Lorenzo Bertelli/Simone Scattolin (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1 HYBRID) +7m37.7s
39 Kalle Rovanperä/Jonne Halttunen (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1 HYBRID) +48m31.9s
45 Takamoto Katsuta/Aaron Johnston (Toyota GR YARIS Rally1 HYBRID) +59m04.5s
(Results as of 15:00 on Sunday, for the latest results please visit www.wrc.com)

2024 FIA World Rally Championship for drivers after round 2:
1 Thierry Neuville 48 points
2 Elfyn Evans 45
3 Adrien Fourmaux 29
4 Sébastien Ogier 24
5 Ott Tänak 21
6 Esapekka Lappi 19
7 Takamoto Katsuta 12
8 Kalle Rovanperä 11
9 Oliver Solberg 8
10 Andreas Mikkelsen 6

2024 FIA World Rally Championship for manufacturers after round 2:
1= Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team 87 points
1= TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team 87
3 M-Sport Ford World Rally Team 47

What’s next?
The legendary Safari Rally Kenya – the only African round of the WRC – has moved forward from June to an earlier date of March 28-31 for 2024. Since returning to the schedule in 2021, the event continues to provide gruelling conditions on rough and rocky roads as well as high speeds across open plains.

TAGGED:Elfyn EvansGR YARIS Rally1 HYBRIDGR Yaris Rally2Rally SwedenSafari Rally KenyaTOYOTA GAZOO RacingWorld Rally TeamWRC

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