WRC -Evans/Martin Safari Rally Kenya Victory, Record Championship Reed.
2025 Safari Rally Kenya -final report
Elfyn Evans tamed the Wilds of Safari Rally Kenya, insisting on a breakthrough on Sunday and strengthening the grip for the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) title race.
The Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 driver, jointly provided by Scott Martin, beat the modern rival OTT Tänak for 1 minute 9.9 seconds. In doing so, he opened the biggest championship lead recorded after the WRC campaign in the third round.
Evans arrived in Africa on a wave of momentum after winning in Sweden and finished with Rolil Montte-Carlo. Wales, now gaining 36 points in the driver rankings, pioneered a clear daylight between himself and the title rival after the third round of the 14th round.
His latest success was built across the four -day path that started in Nairobi on Thursday and deeply into the unforgivable Great Lift Valley in Kenya. And the raw sight of Safari attracted many people at any time. The police have more than 250,000 fans this year on stage at 188,000 in 2024.
Evans took the lead late Friday.
But it was far from running without a problem. He overcame the tire deflation, rotated at the beginning of the meeting, and carefully managed the electricity problem throughout the last leg of Sunday. Tänak had a deficit in the closed stage, but Evans firmly firmly established the company to join the British driver group to conquer Safari.
Tänak joined the podium by a team member who finished 2:22.1 seconds after 2 minutes 22.1 seconds after the weekend, and was a world champion Thierry Neuville. The problem with Belgium began on Friday with a one -minute penalty after the gearbox was delayed, and arrived late to repair the car’s cooling package on Saturday.
Despite frustration, modern double podiums have the best results in Safari. In contrast, despite the victory of Evans, this was the first edition of the rally that Toyota California Gyeongju could not deploy more than one car on the podium.
Toyota 1-2 showed until the world champion Kalle Rovanperä plunged from second to fifth place due to the rear suspension damage twice on Saturday afternoon. His misfortune continued on Sunday when he retired from electricity on Sunday, and he led his teammate Evans to 57 points in the championship fight.
Takamoto Katsuta was fourth after suffering thermal fatigue with several holes. However, the damage caused by the roll of the Wolf Power Stage did not reach the finish and promoted the fellow toyota driver Sami Pajari. Grégoire Munster, meanwhile, won the fifth place in the M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 by overcoming the gearbox problem.
Overall, GUS GREENSMITH won the WRC2 in seventh place and finished more than three minutes before JAN Solans after the Spanish launched SS18. The gentleman’s driver Jourdan Serderidis ranked eighth in other fuma, and Josh Mcerlean ranked 10th, and Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zaldivar finished the WRC2 podium in 9th.
Greensmith’s WRC2 GOLD in which Solans rolls on the last day
GREENSMITH and SOLANS, separated by 5.8 seconds on Sunday’s fifth -stage determinants, were immersed in a tense confrontation. Škoda Fabia RS Rally2’s Brit, Toyota GR Yaris Rally2. Greensmith has always been the opening test to a quarter, but Solans hit hard at the next stage and recorded 7.6sec in the second split before the disaster occurred.
The 27 -year -old athlete misjudged the left -handed man and lost for three minutes and gave Greensmith a joint with Jonas Andersson. The victory scored the first WRC2 victory after the Safari Rally Kenya, and he fought through the illness to take the loot. It was also a double celebration of the British rally, and Wales far away, Elfyn Evans won the headline Rally1 category.
Greensmith was one of the four drivers who led the WRC2 at the punishment competition for four days, and inherited the top of the Kajetan Kajetanowicz interrupted by the rear suspension damage on Saturday morning. This play benefited from the misfortune of Oliver Solberg.
Despite disappointment, Solans still had to congratulate you. He won the WRC2 Challenger category. Previously, the Rally2 Machinery was unveiled to the driver and the co -driver who did not get the WRC title or scored the top manufacturer.
FAU Zaldivar insisted on another WRC2 result of another škoda. Paraguayan moved Solans for more than 18 minutes, but maintained a comfortable advantage compared to Daniel Chwist, who took fourth place despite retiring on the last stage of Saturday and restarted on Sunday.
SOLBERG has recovered to rank 5th place, moved to the lead of the championship and won the forum8 WRC2 for most stage championships. The 6th place went to Kas Zetan
Kajetanowicz, the local hero Carl Tundo won the Ford Fiesta R5 at the WRC Masters Cup and ranked seventh in the WRC2.
NIKHIL SACHANIA, paralyzed and driven in Ford Fiesta Rally3, modified for his failure, claimed to win in the WRC3 class.
As the WRC heads to the islas canarias rally, a completely new challenge is waiting. Asphalt fixed products based on Gran Canaria are held from April 24 to 27.
