Kalle Rovanperä is starting to reach the first peak of the season at the Canary Islands, which will start on Friday on Friday.
Kalle Rovanperä has a tough task to make up the difference to the top of the World Series. Zumawire / mvphotos
In the Finnish rally Kalle Rovanperä The start of the season went smoothly. From Monte Carlo, the Toyota driver grabbed a reasonable fourth space, but in Sweden he had a fifth place in his hand.
The previous competition in Kenya ended with a Rovanperä interruption on the day of technical troubles.
Now, for the first time this year, rally stars are going to fight points for a clean asphalt rally. Rovanperä immediately showed the pace on Thursday morning’s test clip, where he threw a clear base time.
– Shakedown had a pretty raw pace. It was positive. It felt pretty good when the car felt good, Rovanperä reported to Iltalehti.
– Of course, it’s just Shakedown, a short clip that you remember well. Then it’s more of a driving, and at least driving is pretty good. Of course, you have to get to the same flow mode, so you probably get good, the Toyota driver added.
Snippets
Kalle Rovanperä praised Gran Canaria’s clean asphalt roads. Zumawire / mvphotos
Gran Canaria Island has never competed for the World Series points before. Rovanperä had a good feeling about the note.
– The clips are really great here. For a long time, there hasn’t been such a completely pure, good asphalt rally. Last 2022 in Spain. Since then, all asphalt competitions have had dirt and everything else. Now it’s a clean rally and really sweet snippets.
– There are no differences because of the place of departure. In that sense, a great rally is coming. The clips are difficult when they were first noted and when they were refurbished, Rovanperä said.
In the early part of the season, Rovanperä had trouble finding a good feel for the rubber of the new Rally Championships in the World Rally Championship. According to Rovanperä, the new tires may not be fully suited to him even in the Canary, but the problem is not necessarily as big as in Monte or Sweden.
– At least in the tests and now on the test clip, it worked. Then, when you start driving for long snacks, there is a situation here, too, who is able to keep the tires in the best condition and not overheat. This is a really fierce rally for the tire as we go from the bend all the time.
– The basic tire performance probably suited me, but it will be seen who is best suited to the driving style to keep them in good shape.
Big back
After the early season, Rovanperä is now chasing a decent success. It would be necessary for him as he is as much as 57 points from his team leader in the World Series Elfy’s Evans.
– The goals have been high all the time, but we have not received the result we wanted. Now would be a good time to get that, Rovanperä said directly.
The Canary Islands’ World Rally Rally will be off to a good start on Friday, with six special stages on the program.