Kalle Rovanperä and Esapekka Lapland at the wheel

The World Rally Championship continues in Sardinia. Iltalehti follows the events of Friday in this story.

FACTS

World Rally Championship of Sardinia, special stage 2/21:

1. Elfyn Evans, Toyota 9.22.7

2. Ott Tänak, Hyundai +4.7

3. Pierre-Louis Loubet, M-Sport Ford +5.0

4. Kalle Rovanperä, Toyota + 7.9

5. Esapekka Lapland, Toyota +8.1

6. Adrien Fourmaux, M-Sport Ford +11.3

7. Craig Breen, M-Sport Ford +13.1

8. Thierry Neuville, Hyundai 14.6

9. Takamoto Katsuta, Toyota +14.9

10. Gus Greensmith, M-Sport Ford +19.0

Eight special stages will be run in the Sardinian World Rally Championship on Friday.

Was fourth in the overall situation of the rally Kalle Rovanperä you started the second special stage first. The Finnish driver who won the last three races was the fourth fastest.

The ranking in the overall race did not change.

– Pretty slippery, as I expected. I don’t know what else we can do. A couple of mistakes at the beginning. Otherwise, I did my best, Rovanperä said at WRC All Live.

Elfyn Evans was the fastest in the clip and rose to the top spot. The special experiment saw a surprise when Pierre-Louis Loubet was only 0.8 seconds behind Evans. It raised the overall situation of the French driver to third.

Esapekka Lapland was the fifth of the special exam.

– When you can’t see, it’s easy to hit something. Only safe through, Lapland commented.

The story continues after the picture.

Visibility on Sardinian roads is poor. Pictured is Elfyn Evans. AOP

Departed from the top until Friday Thierry Neuville was only ninth in the special stage. He fell from the tip to eighth.

The drivers gave harsh criticism to the organizers. Almost all of the top drivers found the dusty gravel roads dangerous.

Visibility was non-existent.

– Shit. Two minutes difference to the previous car, and I don’t see anything. Big cars lift dust. This is not a rally for me, driving in the WRC2 class Teemu Suninen downloaded.

– No visibility. We lost 10-15 seconds because of the dust. We knew this could happen. We told the organizers about it. No one wants to listen. Live TV and the race program mean too tight a schedule. This is really, really dangerous for drivers, Neuville updated.

– We don’t see anything because of the dust. This is not nice, Toyota Takamoto Katsuta compass.

– I didn’t see much. Sometimes the situation is really bad. Every year the same thing, Evans steamed.

The third special stage starts at 9.01 Finnish time.

Kalle Rovanperä was again in the role of plow. AOP

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