Not much more info on this but from this article i read out that it was more or less the same yes
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Is it true that Ott leaves Finland after 1st day of the rally?
Why would Ott leave MSport, he gets to spend more time with his family, as he wanted! jk
It is very common practice when someone retires that he leaves country as soon as possible, it has been the same in every team and every rally (seen that many times). And do not believe BS that French or other journalists are writing. Ott and Martin came to engineers office, talked to engineers, analysed what happened, even watched some rally and spent quiet a lot of time there, then shake everyone´s hand in office (including me) and then hurried to next ferry to Tallinn. It has been very intense period, time to rest a bit for everybody :)
Tomi Tuominen also confirmed the story as total BS as he was doing a live tv show for CMore while Tänak was chatting with the M-Sport mechanics in the background.