WRC Rally Italia Sardegna 2025

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Originally Posted by denkimi

Ogier has done 4 rallies this year and has won 3 with one 2nd place.
I believe that ogier would have had at least 10 or 11 titles, had he gone and stayed fulltime with toyota since 2019.

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But this year is not 2022-2024. Too many small mistakes and punctures to match Kalle in past years, in my opinion. And last year vs Neuville, he had a better car and better road position and only few points behind, before Acropolis. Then he crashed 3 times and was 1 of the 2 drivers to get a puncture in Japan.

Now, Ogi being second overall in championship standings, do we see another " I probably will drive the whole of the rest season"?

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Originally Posted by Morte66

If you had offered me "Evans 4th after opening the road in Sardinia" before the rally, I'd have taken it.

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Yes, the result is okay. But seeing him finishing the PS behind Neuville with bad road position and even Katsuta (who made a small mistake)... those points count. Good thing for Evans is that he's being super consistent this season, so maybe the others will make mistakes and have DNF... otherwise, on speed alone, it will be hard.

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Originally Posted by Eli

Evans leading by 19 points (133) over Ogier (114) with Rovanperä a point behind him (113), and Ott is 4th (108), Neuville in 5th with 89 points.

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Those numbers were from the official broadcast, no? In that case Neuville will lose his points from the overall classification (six, I think?) when the later runners come through.

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Originally Posted by Eli

To state the obvious, Hyundai & Neuville can kiss that no. 1 byebye, only question remains is if Rovanperä or Evans will take it, as we still have 8 rounds to go…Congrats to Ogier, as impressive as he was when he won this event first time in the Polo back in 2013.

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Based on two last rallies (not only but those rallies have been very strong) I would say Tänak is getting the nr 1 hunter, Kalle still doesnt havent found the correct click on gravel, just look even this event, a minute loss to Ogier and Tänak. some good stage times but very unstable with the times overall.

Evans should be very worried, his speed on two last rallies has been miserbale even with better starting positions, IMO its actually worse than his speed while opening the road

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Originally Posted by BlueStrike

Those numbers were from the official broadcast, no? In that case Neuville will lose his points from the overall classification (six, I think?) when the later runners come through.

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yes, I edited the initial post, it’s 83 points for Neuville.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

Based on two last rallies (not only but those rallies have been very strong)
Evans should be very worried, his speed on two last rallies has been miserbale even with better starting positions, IMO its actually worse than his speed while opening the road

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I think he has lost his mojo again. He seemed confident, determined in the beginning of the season and I really thought he can finally make the title. Even before seemed he will never do it. But now, everything has fallen to it`s place. Really sorry for him.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Yeah, but they are two in the car. Co-driver can either push or repeat warnings... Maybe both were thinking of the finish line. Happens now and then. Even to me back in the years...

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Looked like either bad pacenote, missed the pacenote or just loss off concentration. Maybe was still thinking about the previous crest?

Now that Kalle appears to have acclimatised himself with the tyres, Elfyn doesn’t stand much of a chance, and the only person to stop the second half of the season becoming a bit of a one horse race is Ogier. If Hyundai can keep it together, Tanak is an outside bet, but traditionally the Hyundai hasn’t been on par with Toyota on fast gravel events.

Does anyone know why the two M-Sport cars were so slow today? Beaten by multiple Rally2 cars on most stages.

If Kalle or Ott don't have a disasterous Acropolis, I see the title fight between them.